Iraq's foreign minister denied Tuesday that his government had anything to do with the kidnapping of a group of Qatari hunters in the south of the country this month. A large group of unidentified armed men abducted at least 26 Qataris from their desert hunting camp near the Saudi...
Turkish police killed two female "terrorists" in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday on a cell of suspected militants in Istanbul, media reports said. The Dogan news agency said the clash, which also left four police lightly wounded, took place in the Gaziosmanpasa district in the north of the European...
Iraq's armed forces Tuesday started an attack to dislodge ISIS militants from the center of Ramadi, the spokesman of the counter-terrorism units Sabah al-Numani told Reuters. ISIS captured Ramadi, the capital of the western Anbar province, in May.
About 20 people, including at least 12 civilians, were killed on Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, in two air strikes that destroyed houses believed to be used by Islamic State militants, six eyewitnesses and a medical source said. Nearby buildings were also damaged,...
