Suicide car bombers attacked an elementary school and a police station in a small northern Iraqi village on Sunday while another on foot detonated his payload among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people including children, officials said....

Rebels of the embattled city of Homs threatened to retaliate on The Pro-Assad suburbs as the siege enters the month sixteen. The crisis management Committee, rebel group, in Homs declared in a statement its intention to attack the suburbs of Assad supporters...

Syria won foreign praise on Monday for starting to destroy its chemical arsenal, although an opposition activist said the world was merely giving President Bashar al-Assad time to kill more people with conventional weapons. An official from the international mission overseeing the...