Iraq's armed forces Tuesday started an attack to dislodge ISIS militants from the center of Ramadi, the spokesman of the counter-terrorism units Sabah al-Numani told Reuters. ISIS captured Ramadi, the capital of the western Anbar province, in May.

(The Financial Times)- ISIS may be claiming to wage a holy war for Islam but the self-declared caliphate is as vulnerable to the region's deep-seated corruption as the secular Iraqi and Syrian regimes it displaced. Evidence from its former...

About 20 people, including at least 12 civilians, were killed on Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, in two air strikes that destroyed houses believed to be used by Islamic State militants, six eyewitnesses and a medical source said. Nearby buildings were also damaged,...

Lebanon's Hezbollah group on Monday said it would retaliate for the killing of prominent militant Samir Qantar in an Israeli air strike in Syria, after giving him an elaborate funeral in Beirut of the kind reserved for its top commanders. Thousands of people chanted "death to...