Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday said Saudi Arabia was supporting militants inside Iran, days after hardline Sunni group ISIS claimed attacks in Tehran. Relations between the two neighbors are at their most tense in years. Last week Riyadh, along with other Arab...

Iraqi forces on Tuesday reported progress in the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge ISIS from Mosul, announcing the capture of a district just north the city's historic center. With the loss of the Zanjili neighborhood, the enclave still held by ISIS in the northern Iraqi city has shrunk to...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday blamed the United States for instability in the Middle East and also said Washington's fight against Islamic State Sunni militant group was a lie, his official website reported. "You (the United States) and your agents are the source of...

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have pushed toward a medical complex in western Mosul, trying to dislodge ISIS militants from two neighborhoods they still partly hold outside the Old City. Brig. Gen. Mustafa al-Azzawi of the Iraqi army's 36th Brigade told The Associated Press on Monday that his...