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Shiite Iraq militia claims it attacked Iran group
A Shiite militia leader on Monday claimed responsibility for a rocket attack over the weekend that killed two members of an Iranian exile group near ...
Al-Qaida's Iraq head defies boss over Syria fight
The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's central command to stop claiming control over the ...
Early vote count in Iran gives Rowhani wide lead
Iran's reformist-backed presidential candidate surged to a wide lead in early vote counting Saturday, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late ...
Hezbollah says it will keep fighting in Syria
Hezbollah's leader vowed Friday that his militants would keep fighting in Syria "wherever needed" after the U.S. agreed to arm the rebels in the civil ...
Background of Iranian presidential candidates
A look at the six candidates in Iran's presidential election Friday. Two others — parliament member Gholam Ali Haddad Adel and former Vice President ...
Kuwaiti premier visits Iraq, tightening bonds
Kuwait's prime minister discussed ties with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad on Wednesday, signaling improving relations between neighbors still ...
A look at Turkey and its widespread protests
Turkey's Islamic-led government is facing its biggest protests in years as demonstrators and police clashed Tuesday for the 12th straight day.
Iraq hit by wave of bomb attacks, killing dozens
A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and extending the deadliest eruption of violence to hit ...
Victims of Saddam-era gas attack seek French probe
Twenty victims of Saddam Hussein's 1988 chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, requested a judicial investigation of French suppliers ...
Iraqi PM visits Kurdish north, hoping to mend ties
Iraq's prime minister on Sunday made a rare visit to the country's self-ruled northern Kurdish region in a bid to melt the ice between the Kurds and ...
UK, French claims put Obama in tough spot on Syria
President Barack Obama is facing a new quandary from a pair of assertive allies, France and Britain, that suggest his stated "red line" for more ...
Gunmen in Iraq ambush, shoot dead 14 travelers
Gunmen ambushed a group of travelers at a fake checkpoint at a remote desert site in western Iraq on Wednesday and killed at least 14 of them, ...
Brash Iran campaign stirs echoes of Ahmadinejad
Iranians have seen it before: A youngish presidential candidate firing up crowds with fist-waving rants against the West, then displaying his Islamist ...
Spike in violence in Iraq has echoes in the past
More than a year after the U.S. military left Iraq, the country is reeling from its most sustained violence since 2008. Over the last two months more ...
Alarm grows as Iraqi forces fail to stem violence
Officials in Iraq are growing increasingly concerned over an unabated spike in violence that claimed at least another 33 lives on Thursday and is ...
Evening bomb blasts kill 30 in Baghdad
Bomb blasts tore through two Baghdad neighborhoods Wednesday evening, killing at least 30 people including several members of a wedding party, and ...
US intelligence embraces debate in security issues
In the months leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden, veteran intelligence analyst Robert Cardillo was given the nickname "Debbie Downer." With ...
UN nuke agency's Iran probe driven by US-led intel
The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its ...
Iraqi premier orders army shake-up after attacks
Iraq's prime minister has ordered a shake-up of his military command after a weeklong spike of militant attacks that has killed nearly 300 people, by ...
Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that ...
Attacks kill 95 in Iraq, hint of Syrian spillover
Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 ...
Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped
A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway ...
Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight ...
UN: 14 Iranian exiles moved from Iraq to Albania
The first exiles from an Iranian opposition group have moved to Albania from a camp near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations ...
Car bombs, shooting in Iraq leave 21 dead
Car bombs hit Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital for the second day in a row on Thursday, part of a series of attacks across the country that ...