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 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 ...

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

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Hamza Mustafa Following the decision by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sadrist Movement to uphold its boycott of Iraq’s parliamentary elections, former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has also ...

The Color Purple co-producer and cultural icon Oprah Winfrey reveals for the first time in PEOPLE's latest cover story that she is taking weight-loss medication as one tool for helping to maintain ...