By William Maclean DUBAI (Reuters) - This week's advance by Sunni insurgents in Iraq provides a powerful argument for why Iran and Saudi Arabia should bury their Cold War-style feud, but is nonetheless likely to set back detente between the Gulf's dominant Sunni and Shi'ite...

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...

    (Reuters)- The Syria branch of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has put fighting on hold in Syria while it brings in weapons seized inside neighboring Iraq, a monitoring group that tracks the violence said on Friday. ISIS,...

(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....