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Newly elected Iraqi lawmakers convene on Tuesday, under pressure to name a unity government to keep the country from splitting…

Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after…

Photograph and satellite imagery indicate that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents have carried out mass executions…

Militants took a town an hour from Baghdad that is home to four natural gas fields on Thursday, another gain…

US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday to urge its leaders not to withdraw from…

The strategic Shia-majority north Iraq town of Tal Afar and its airport were in the hands of Sunni Arab militants…

An al Qaeda splinter group thrust east from a newly-captured Iraqi-Syrian border post on Sunday, taking three towns in the…

Iraqi forces were massing north of Baghdad on Friday, aiming to strike back at Sunni Islamists whose drive toward the…

Major Chinese oil firms have prepared evacuation plans in case spreading violence in Iraq -- a key energy provider to…

Iran's president vowed on Wednesday to defend Shi'ite holy sites in Iraq, where Sunni militants battled their way into the…