Iraqi authorities announced the execution of a dozen “terrorism” convicts on Monday, defying widespread international condemnation of Baghdad’s use of the death penalty as violence nationwide has surged.   The latest executions, carried out on Sunday, bring to...

Libya’s deputy intelligence chief Mustafa Nuh was freed on Monday a day after he was captured near Tripoli airport, a source in the intelligence services said. “Nuh was freed today,” the source told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity, without giving...

The visit Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, will pay on Saturday to Diyarbakir with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is being debated in the media.   The arguments made are miles away from explaining the...

 violence against Christian minorities is now a "global crisis" as worshippers are driven out of their ancient homelands by militants, a senior minister warns Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of sectarian attacks, a...