The attack late Monday was the first time in nearly two months that Western military or diplomatic installations have been targeted in Iraq, after a string of similar incidents. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for an investigation and promised to "hold accountable those...

 Israel fired several missiles early on Monday targeting areas near the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria's state news agency reported. An opposition war-monitoring group said the strikes killed six Iran-backed fighters. The SANA news agency claimed that Syrian air defenses shot down...

Syrian forces responded late on Wednesday to “Israeli aggression” in the south of the country, the state news agency said. Israel launched missiles from the occupied Golan Heights at approximately 11pm (21:00 GMT) and caused material damage, the SANA state news agency reported,...

 From the outside, the building seems just one of the many in central Baghdad that are decaying from years of misuse - silent, windows shut. After 6 p.m., one knock on its steel-plated doors and a portal is opened to a different world rarely found in Iraq’s capital. Bodyguards...