Iraq's Kurds said on Friday a referendum on independence will go ahead despite warnings internationally that a vote in favor of secession could trigger conflict with Baghdad at a time when the fight against ISIS is not yet won. The Kurds have played a major role in the eight-month-old...

 Thousands packed Tehran’s streets on Friday to mourn the victims of two suicide bomb and gun attacks, and joined their supreme leader in accusing regional rival Saudi Arabia of involvement in the assaults. People in the crowds, some crying, chanted "Death to Saudi Arabia" alongside...

Three people were wounded when a car bomb in Turkey's southeastern province of Batman targeted a gendarmerie station Friday, police and hospital sources said. Two soldiers and one civilian were wounded by the blast, at a checkpoint in front of the station in Batman's Bekirhan district, the...

 A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt in a market east of the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala Friday, killing at least 20 and wounding 25, Iraqi security sources said. Islamic State claimed the attack in the town of Musayab, in a statement on its Amaq news agency. Read...