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Hezbollah and the Syrian branch of al Qaeda have fought a deadly five-day battle in Syria near the border with…

Iraqi forces have withdrawn from the militant-held city of Tikrit after their new offensive met heavy resistance, in a blow…

Iraqi security forces found the bodies Wednesday of 53 men who had been bound and executed in a confessionally mixed…

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition should withdraw its support for his third term bid and pick another candidate, urged…

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

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

The al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades had urged Lebanese Sunni Muslims to attack the Iranian-backed Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah a…

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…

Militants gained ground on Monday in a battle for a strategic Shia enclave in northern Iraq that provides a corridor…