Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon Bloc, which dominated Iraqi legislative polls last year, has submitted a bill to parliament that would, if passed, require all foreign military personnel to leave the country within one year. At a Friday press conference in Baghdad, Sairoon Chairman Sabah Assadi...

For the 44th consecutive week, Palestinians on Friday gathered along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation. During Friday’s demonstration, at least one Palestinian protester was killed by Israeli army gunfire, according to...

The U.S.-led coalition against Daesh terrorists on Friday said it was investigating possible civilian casualties in an alleged airstrike in Syria earlier this week. "CJTF-OIR takes all allegations of civilian casualties seriously and investigates each incident reported through any means,...

An Iraqi priest who saved a trove of religious manuscripts from the Islamic State group was ordained on Friday as the new Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul. Najeeb Michaeel, 63, was inaugurated in a ceremony in Mosul's St. Paul Church attended by Catholic leaders from the region and the...