Gunmen killed seven family members of an Iraqi police officer, including a teenage son, in a pre-dawn attack Friday on their home near the northern city of Kirkuk, security officials told AFP. A Kirkuk police captain, asking not to be named, said the unidentified assailants had kidnapped the...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office said on Thursday a unit of the security forces committed "abuses" against civilians during the offensive to oust Daesh (ISIS) insurgents from the city of Mosul. His government began an investigation in May into a report by German newsmagazine Der...

A suicide bomber killed a Hamas guard in southern Gaza on Thursday, officials said, in what was seen as a rare Islamist attack against the Palestinian group that has run the impoverished enclave for a decade. The incident occurred at around 1:00 am near the Gaza Strip's lone crossing with...

Lebanese and Syrian ministers pledged to boost economic ties on Wednesday, part of a visit that has challenged the Lebanese state's policy of neutrality toward Syria's war. Government ministers from Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Shi'ite Amal party arrived in Syria for a trade fair, a trip that...