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Iraqi Kurds seized control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday, while surging Sunni Islamist rebels advanced towards…

Syrian rebels started withdrawing from the heart of Homs city on Wednesday, leaving an early center of the revolt against…

(Reuters) - Bahrain's Supreme Criminal Court has sentenced eight people to life in prison for their part in the killing…

Baghdad (AFP) - Attacks in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at a university in north Baghdad, killed at least nine…

Two people were killed and one wounded when a car blew up in a mainly Shi'ite village in Bahrain on…

Baghdad (AFP) - Attacks in Iraq left 12 people dead Tuesday while security forces said they killed 25 militants near…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will stand for re-election this year and no longer faces a threat of being overthrown, the…

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a crowded checkpoint south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 12 people and…

A large explosion near an Iranian cultural center in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital Beirut on Wednesday killed at…

Powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of a major political movement and a key figure in post-Saddam Iraq, has announced…