Iraq has executed 13 people including 11 convicted on charges relating to "terrorism", the justice ministry said Monday. They included individuals responsible for car bombings, "killings of security forces personnel" and kidnappings, it said in a statement, without specifying...

An Iraqi Turkmen Front’s (ITF) candidate in parliamentary polls survived a suicide car bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a police official said on Sunday. The incident took place in front of a used car showroom in Hadra district, from where the parliament candidate...

ISTANBUL (AP)- An American pastor imprisoned in Turkey is going on trial for alleged terror ties and spying in a case that has increased tensions between Washington and Ankara. Andrew Craig Brunson, an evangelical pastor from North Carolina, is facing 35 years in prison on charges of...

 Israel's army said Sunday it had destroyed a Hamas tunnel crossing from the Gaza Strip into its territory after more than two weeks of tension along the border of the Palestinian enclave. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said it was the longest and deepest Gazan tunnel...