Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Shiite Islam's highest authority in Iraq, offered his condolences on Monday for the death of ...

Iraq is bringing increasing numbers of its citizens out of al-Hol camp in Syria, where those connected with the extremist "Islamic State" group live. The problem now is getting local communities to ...

Sistani told the pope that Iraq's Christians should live in "peace". Despite the high risks to his personal safety, Francis visited the largely-ruined city of Mosul that was ravaged by the Islamic ...

MOSUL — The minaret is reborn ... the Aghawat mosque as well as the Al-Ekhlass school in the old town. The first funds for the project — $50.4 million — came from the United Arab Emirates ...

In 1915 the British had wanted the northernmost province around Mosul to go ... prosperous Iraq. At first glance, Faisal seemed an unlikely choice as ruler. The 35-year-old prince, son of the ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

The heaviest class of bombs used in Gaza are the Mark 80s, of which the Mark 84 -- a U.S.-made, 2,000 pound aircraft bomb ...

The UN Mine Action Service estimates that between one in 10 and one in 20 Israeli bombs fired into Gaza did not detonate.

Near the city of Khan Younis a week after the January ceasefire, bulldozer driver Alaa Abu Jmeiza was clearing a street close to where 15-year old Saeed ... Battle of Mosul in Iraq in 2016-2017.

The lawlessness that followed the 2003 Iraq invasion saw its national museum looted, and U.S. and Iraqi government offensives against Islamic State saw much of the old city of Mosul reduced to rubble.

It was the case that ‘no Kurd was safe, not Shia, Christian, or Yazidi’ because ‘Islamic State had reanimated an old hatred between Kurds ... two whole months after it captured Iraq’s second city of ...