IRBIL, Iraq (AP)- Iraq's Kurdish region has commemorated the 30th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's 1988 gas attack in the northeastern Kurdish town of Halabja that killed 5,000 people. Kurdish officials delivered speeches to a crowd of hundreds gathered for the ceremony at a stadium in...

The anti-Daesh coalition on Thursday says a U.S. military helicopter carrying seven American troops crashed in western Iraq. "Rescue teams are responding to the scene of the downed aircraft at this time," Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) said in a...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday spoke over the phone to discuss bilateral and Turkey-EU relations, and regional issues, according to diplomatic sources. During the conversation, Erdogan congratulated Merkel for being re-elected to a fourth...

  With less than two weeks before elections, Egypt's president says he's prepared to personally join security forces battling Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula. The outcome of the March 26-28 election is a foregone conclusion, with general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah...