Iraq's sectarian political leaders have plunged back into a dispute over the status of Shi'ite armed groups, undermining efforts to reunite the country as its troops press on with the assault of Mosul, Islamic State's biggest stronghold. Forty days into the biggest ground offensive in Iraq...

Until three weeks ago, many of Abu Osama's customers were Islamic State militants who brought their wives and children to his pharmacy on the eastern edge of Mosul for injections and treatment. Now, most of them are Iraqi security forces who recaptured the Gogjali neighborhood earlier...

Israeli forces killed four gunmen belonging to an ISIS affiliate in Syria who had opened fire on soldiers in the occupied Golan Heights Sunday, a military spokesman said. Spokesman Peter Lerner told AFP the Israeli soldiers were targeted with machinegun fire and mortars and replied with...

Two mass graves of at least 18 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, thousands of whom have been killed and kidnapped by ISIS, have been discovered as security forces fight to dislodge the militants from Mosul, a local official said. Kurdish peshmerga forces found the grave near the Shababit...