After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of ...

Islamic State (IS) militants holding out in Mosul on a strip of land along the Tigris River are increasingly using suicide ...

The group said the cache of more than 2.4 million e-mails between Syrian politicians, government officials and companies would embarrass President Bashar al-Assad of Syria as well as his adversaries.

Iraq has signed deals to buy weapons worth 4.2 billion $ with Russia during the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's visit last year, according to Russian media. Russian reports said that the deal includes ...

Thursday, 01 August 2013 Shafaq News / Baghdad Operations Command announced, on Thursday, an order issued by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Nuri al-Maliki to the security services of the ...

The world is facing one of the fastest-growing human rights crises: religious persecution, increasingly escalating into ethno ...

The horrific attack on a Syrian church that claimed the lives of more than 25 and injured more than 60 others should raise a red flag on the internal situation in Syria, say activists close to victims ...

Here’s a look at the life of Iraq’s former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Personal Birth date: July 1, 1950 Birth place: Hindiya, Iraq (some sources say Hilla) Birth name: Nuri Kamil al-Maliki ...

Iraq’s top court will resume work after nine judges returned following the retirement of its president. The Supreme Judicial ...

Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani warned against targeting Iran's leadership and said that the Iran-Israel war could plunge the whole region into chaos.Sistani said in a ...

Few artists in modern Turkish art have wrestled so openly with chaos, myth and material as Omer Uluc. The Istanbul Modern has ...