Al-Ahad TV cameraman Khaled Ali Hamada was killed today in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, becoming the first media fatality since the start of an offensive in the north and west of Iraq two weeks ago by Islamist rebels, including the Jihadi group Islamic State in Iraq and Levant...

   (Zaman Alwasl)- Head of Deir Ezzor's Military Council Monday escaped an assassination attempt by unknown armed group. Col. Munir Abu Moataz told Zaman Alwasl that a group of of 'Revolution enemies' targeted his car in al-Mohassan...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama considered options for military action to support Iraq's besieged government on Monday but made no decision on the U.S. response to a Sunni militant onslaught that has threatened to tear the country apart. Obama, who discussed the crisis...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants captured a strategic northern Iraqi city along the highway to Syria on Monday, sending thousands of residents from an ethnic minority fleeing for safety and moving closer to their goal of linking areas under their control on both sides of the border....