Four gunmen charged into a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad on Monday after a car bomb exploded outside, killing at least ten people, two police sources said. The sources said it was not clear if the assailants, who may have been wearing suicide vests, had killed anyone or taken hostages at the...

The condition of a Palestinian journalist on a 48-day hunger strike in an Israeli jail is deteriorating, the man's wife and a Palestinian official said Monday. Mohammed al-Qeq is protesting his six-month sentence without trial or charge, under a measure called administrative detention....

 Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Saudi Arabia of supporting extremists and "promoting sectarian hatred" and urged Riyadh to instead engage in promoting regional stability. Writing in The New York Times, Zarif said Saudi Arabia had devoted itself to trying...

Islamic State militants left Ramadi's streets and buildings boobytrapped with bombs, hampering efforts to rebuild the city two weeks after Iraq's elite counter-terrorism forces claimed victory against the militant group there, officials said. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar...