(Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was released from a Cairo jail on Sunday and left Egypt for his native Australia after 400 days in prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, security officials said. There was no official word on the fate of his two...

The Jordanian government "strongly" condemned on Sunday the execution of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group, saying it continued to seek information proving the safety of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasba who has also been...

(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces on Sunday found and freed workers who had gone missing a day earlier when Islamic State insurgents seized a small crude oil station near the northern city of Kirkuk, the provincial governor and a provincial councilman said. The Kurds retook...

(Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents on Saturday seized a small crude oil  station near the northern Iraqi city Kirkuk where 15 employees were working, and explosions in and around the capital Baghdad killed at least nine people. Two officials from the state-run North Oil...