PARIS (Reuters) - Some 30 countries present at a Paris conference on Iraq agreed to provide Baghdad with "appropriate military aid" to combat insurgents of the Islamic State group, a statement issued after the talks said. The statement issued by French officials said tackling...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants publicly executed eight Sunni men in a small northern Iraqi village at the weekend for allegedly plotting against the group, an eyewitness from the village told Reuters on Sunday. The killing began on Friday night when a pair of masked...

(Reuters) - Some 500,000 children returned on Sunday to school in the Gaza Strip, where many will be given psychological counseling before regular studies begin after a devastating 50-day war between Palestinian militants and Israel . The opening of the school year had been...

(Reuters) - Britain resisted pressure on Sunday to join the United States in announcing air strikes against Islamic State after the militant group beheaded David Haines, a British hostage, and threatened to kill another Briton. Speaking after chairing a meeting of the...