Iraqi forces took control Friday of the last district in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk still in the hands of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters following a three-hour battle, security sources said. The district of Altun Kupri, or Perde in Kurdish, lies on the road between the city of Kirkuk -...

The United States will again try to resolve a Gulf crisis that Washington has alternatively fueled or tried to soothe, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson heads back to the region. The top US diplomat did not himself hold out much hope of an immediate breakthrough in the stand-off...

 The U.S. military says it carried out a drone strike this week against al-Shabab in Somalia, shortly after the extremist group was blamed for the country's deadliest attack. The U.S. Africa Command tells The Associated Press that the strike occurred Monday about 56 kilometers...

About 100,000 Kurds have fled Kirkuk, fearing unrest, since Monday's takeover of the region by Iraqi forces, officials from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said Thursday. About 18,000 families have taken shelter in the cities of Irbil and Sulaimaniya, the...