Allegations are mounting that chemical weapons attacks in Syria last year have caused newborns to suffer from birth defects. Syrian doctors and activists have circulated a picture of a severely deformed baby girl, reportedly named Fatima Abdulghafar, who was recently born in...

Iraq's oil and natural gas reserves hold great importance for Turkey, a country which is highly dependent on imports for energy consumption. Iraq has been struggling to stabilize politically since the US invaded in 2003 and removed the Baathist regime of Saddam...

U.S. President Barack Obama announced the nominations of the two new ambassadors to Egypt and Iraq on Thursday, filling a critical diplomatic gap for the U.S.  Robert Stephen Beecroft, the current ambassador to Iraq, will assume the top diplomatic post in Cairo while...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the mission charged with destroying Syria's chemical weapons said Thursday the last 16 containers of dangerous chemical agents awaiting transport out of the country are in a contested area not far from Damascus that is currently inaccessible....