Their campaign against Islamist President Mohamed Mursi helped the army topple Egypt's first freely elected leader, but some leaders of the Tamarud movement have broken away, saying the military threatens democracy. The split in Tamarud (Rebellion) is a sign of growing public anger...

An official with the pro-Syrian   Arab Democratic Party   was assassinated by masked gunmen in the northern city of   Tripoli   Thursday, triggering violence that left two people killed and five wounded. Unknown assailants on a small motorcycle...

Powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday slammed Iraq's government as corrupt and headed by a "tyrant" while calling on citizens to vote, days after announcing his exit from politics. The televised speech seem aimed at establishing the cleric, whose political career began in...

There is devastation in several parts of Baghdad after a series of bomb attacks that killed at least two dozen people on Monday night. Nine people died in car bomb explosions that targeted mosques in the Iraqi capital’s predominantly Shi’ite districts of Amil and Karrada. In the...