Attacks against Shiites, including a suicide bombing that ripped through a religious procession, killed 39 people in Iraq Thursday despite massive security deployed for one of the holiest days of their faith. The bloodshed came as a flood of...

Kurdish militias seized another seven villages in northeastern Syria , activists said on Wednesday, a day after the fighters' political wing announced an interim administration that aims to carve out an autonomous Syrian Kurdish region. Kurds, often described as the world's...

The main Syrian opposition alliance dubbed as "hostile" forces Wednesday Kurdish groups that control large swathes of the country's north after they proclaimed provisional self-rule. Kurdish militia, dominated by the Democratic Union Party (PYD),...