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October 06, 2017

Assad's forces push into key IS stronghold in eastern Syria

Syrian government forces pushed into one of the last remaining urban strongholds of the Islamic State group in the country's ...

October 06, 2017

Iraq's ex-President Talabani laid to rest in Kurdish region

Thousands of Iraqi Kurdish mourners, along with Iraqi officials and world dignitaries attended on Friday the funeral of Jalal ...

October 05, 2017

Iraq says it has retaken one of IS group's last strongholds

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Thursday that Iraqi forces have driven the Islamic State group from one of the ...

October 05, 2017

ACLU challenges detention of American captured in Syria

The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday challenged the detention of a U.S. citizen who was picked up on the Syrian ...

October 05, 2017

Judge won't release Iraq War veteran fighting deportation

An immigration judge in Washington state declined to release an Iraq War veteran from custody Wednesday while he fights the ...

October 04, 2017

Iraqi Kurds mourn death of leader Talabani, symbol of unity

Flags flew at half-staff across Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region on Wednesday as Iraqi Kurds began observing a week ...

October 03, 2017

Kurdish leader Talabani, onetime hope for Iraqi unity, dies

As he stepped into office in 2005 to become Iraq's first Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani told his followers, "I am casting ...

October 03, 2017

Acts of heroism emerge in chaos of Las Vegas shooting

Rob Ledbetter's battlefield instincts kicked in quickly as bullets rained overhead. The 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran who ...

October 03, 2017

Red Cross visits US citizen accused of fighting with IS

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday that it has visited with an American citizen the Pentagon has ...

October 02, 2017

US-led coalition: Service member killed in explosion in Iraq

The U.S.-led coalition said on Monday that a service member was killed and another was wounded the previous day in Iraq when ...

October 02, 2017

Iran and Iraq hold joint drill near Iraqi Kurdish region

Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that Iranian and Iraqi armed forces have held a joint military drill near ...

September 30, 2017

Hezbollah leader: Kurdish vote will sow division in region

The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group has warned that a controversial referendum on support for independence in ...

September 30, 2017

The Latest: Iraqis reach Turkey's border with Kurdish region

The Latest on developments in Iraq (all times local): 6:15 p.m. Two Iraqi officials say Iraqi central government officials ...

September 30, 2017

Iraqi military preparing to take control of Kurdish borders

Iraq's military prepared Saturday to take control of the international borders of the northern Kurdish region. The move is ...

September 29, 2017

Iraqi forces to take control of Kurdish regional borders

Iraq's military was preparing to take control of the international borders of the northern Kurdish region as a flight ban ...

September 29, 2017

The Latest: Iran says ceased trading oil with Kurdish region

The Latest on developments in Iraq (all times local): 8 p.m. Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency says Iran has stopped ...

September 29, 2017

US confirms additional 50 civilian deaths in Iraq, Syria

The U.S. military says it has confirmed an additional 50 civilians killed by U.S. coalition air or artillery strikes in Iraq ...

September 29, 2017

Activists: Airstrikes hit dozens of towns in northern Syria

Airstrikes hit towns and villages in northern Syria Friday killing and wounding dozens of people, opposition activists and ...

September 29, 2017

IS reclusive leader rallies followers in purported new audio

The leader of the Islamic State group urged followers to burn their enemies everywhere and target "media centers of the ...