Years of investing in Iraq with time, money and lives of American soldiers are the reasons the U.S. is considering new military action to quell a fast-moving insurgency that has taken key areas of northern Iraq and vows to march on Baghdad while still resisting direct involvement in...

The FBI is investigating men of Somali background who have travelled from the United States to Syria to fight with rebel groups against President Bashar al-Assad. Kyle Loven, a spokesman for the FBI's Minneapolis office, said on Thursday that in the last few months the Bureau...

(Zaman Alwasl)- The sweeping advances in Mosul and other Iraqi cities, and the rapid collapse of the Iraqi army this week are not a creature of al-Qaeda splinter group, but it’s a Sunni rebellion against tyrant Nouri al-Maliki, the Sunni Grand Mufti of Iraq told Zaman Alwasl....

An al-Qaida breakaway group, apparently backed by other Sunni groups and fighters, has seized a large section of northern Iraq after previously taking much of northeastern Syria with an eye toward establishing an Islamic state straddling the two countries. The situation on the...