Tag: iraq

Surrounded by the ruins of pastel-coloured buildings still bearing slogans glorifying the Islamic State's "caliphate", Wissam Ghanem is having a ...

A man taking a selfie after an Iranian dam burst was among at least seven people killed as floods, avalanches ...

Leaders of the Islamic State group are leaving their Syrian stronghold of Raqa, fleeing in the face of the Arab-Kurd ...

As many as seven suicide bombers, six of them women, have blown themselves up while trying to attack the northeast ...

The Iraqi forces that retook east Mosul from jihadists last month have moved on to their next battle, leaving a ...

A former navy admiral reportedly tapped by President Donald Trump to be his national security advisor has declined the post, ...

US President Donald Trump’s choice for National Security Adviser has turned down the job offer. Retired Vice-Admiral Robert Harward was ...

US President Donald Trump's choice for National Security Adviser has turned down the job offer. Retired Vice-Admiral Robert Harward was ...

The United States used depleted uranium anti-tank rounds on two occasions in 2015 during devastating air strikes against convoys of ...

Shared fears over US President Donald Trump's policies could bring Iran and Gulf Arab countries closer together, analysts said after ...

US businesses and schools face possible disruption as workers and students vow to stay home to draw attention to the ...

At least 48 people have been killed in Baghdad in the third blast in the Iraqi capital in three days, ...

President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday said Raqa is not a priority target for his forces, saying his goal is to ...

At least 18 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a predominantly Shia suburb of the Iraqi capital ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visited Oman on Wednesday as part of a regional tour to improve relations with Gulf neighbours ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nervous European allies put a brave face on the troubled debut of President Donald Trump's administration, expressing ...

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will visit Lebanon next week for talks with leaders of Paris's former mandate territory, ...

As the noose tightens around holdout jihadists in west Mosul, so does the belt around the waists of hundreds of ...

Living conditions in west Mosul, where jihadists are hunkering down among 750,000 Iraqi civilians, are deteriorating fast and a source ...

Thousands of Iraqis, mostly supporters of prominent cleric Moqtada Sadr, gathered in Baghdad Tuesday to pay their respects to seven ...