A joint task force of U.S. coalition and Iraqi special forces have arrested 10 suspected members of a network that provided funding for Daesh (ISIS) in the capital Baghdad and the northern city of Irbil, the coalition said Thursday. The task force conducted raids from Oct. 7-9 and...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered officials to urgently find solutions to ease an economic crisis spurred by the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Thursday. Washington reintroduced steps against Iran’s currency trade,...

Egyptian authorities detained the youngest son of jailed former President Mohammad Morsi Wednesday for questioning on charges of spreading "fake news," then released him on bail. State security men and a special forces officer took Abdullah Morsi at dawn along with his ID and mobile...

In the covered alleyways of old Najaf in Iraq, poetry and philosophy books compete on laden shelves with economic treatises, the Koran and other theological tomes for students' attention. Since leaving his native Bangladesh for the Shiite holy city three years ago, religious student...