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 ...

Blue-eyed Nuri asSaid (“Nuri the Happy One”), born in Baghdad in 1888, was the only son of Lowlow’s descendant, Said Effendi al-Mudakikchi (“Mr. Said the Auditor”).

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 ...

The foiled attack confirmed Iraq’s suspicions about the group, said Colonel Abdul Ameer al-Bayati, of the Iraqi Army’s 8th Division, which is deployed in the area.

Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, where the extremist ...

A few dozen Iranians threw shoes at posters of U.S. President George W. Bush in Tehran Friday morning, a demonstration of support for an Iraqi journalist jailed for throwing his shoes at President ...