BAGHDAD, Mohamad Ali Harissi- The United States on Sunday condemned a "horrifying" massacre by Islamic militants said to have killed hundreds of Iraqi soldiers as they advanced on the capital after...

LONDON- Tony Blair hit out on Sunday at critics who linked the 2003 invasion of Iraq with the current violence in the country, blaming instead the West's failure to act in Syria. The former prime...

WASHINGTON- Iraqi leaders failed to strengthen and support the nation's military after US troops withdrew despite billions of American dollars poured into training and equipping the army, officials...

WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle- The US is reluctantly being dragged back into the smouldering ashes of the Iraq War amid accusations that its failure to intervene in Syria aided the rise of jihadists now...

WASHINGTON, Ivan Couronne- "I have to make the decision that's right for me and the country." Hillary Clinton froze the 2016 White House race when she told ABC News she will likely wait until year's...

WASHINGTON- US Vice President Joe Biden called Wednesday for the "safe and immediate" return of 49 Turkish citizens kidnapped from a consulate in Iraq's northern city of Mosul. Turkey has pledged to...

BERLIN- Former UN envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has warned that the war-torn country was heading toward becoming "another Somalia" ruled by warlords, in an interview published in a German weekly...

CAIRO, Jay Deshmukh, Tony Gamal-Gabriel- Ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted Egypt's elected Islamist leader, warned Sunday there will be "no leniency" for acts of violence, in his first...

DAMASCUS- The Syrian government on Saturday condemned the European Union's criticism of its presidential election, branding it a "violation" of national sovereignty. The EU has described Tuesday's...