A car bomb exploded outside a popular ice cream shop in central Baghdad just after midnight Tuesday, killing 13 people and wounding 24, hospital and police officials said. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which Iraqi officials said involved apparently remotely detonated explosives...

Iran's judiciary chief criticized moderate President Hassan Rouhani on Monday over his promises to release jailed opposition leaders -- a sign of the obstacles facing the newly re-elected leader's reform efforts. During his election campaign, "a candidate said during a gathering of his...

Tens of thousands of civilians in parts of Mosul held by ISIS are struggling to get food, water and medicine, the United Nations said, days into a new push by U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops to take the northern city. Up to 200,000 people still live behind ISIS lines in Mosul's Old City...

 (Zaman A Wasl)-  Three Hezbollah officials were killed on Sunday in a car accident in Lebanon on the Bint Jbail-Tayriyeh subhway amid claims of assassination act, Lebanese news feed said Janoubia news site, a critical media outlet to Hezbollah, assured that the deaths...