(Reuters) - President Barack Obama considered options for military action to support Iraq's besieged government on Monday but made no decision on the U.S. response to a Sunni militant onslaught that has threatened to tear the country apart. Obama, who discussed the crisis...

  8 Jihadist fighters killed when an Iraqi drone targeted a convoy of al-Qaeda renegade group in the northwest Iraqi city of Tal Afar Sunday, Zaman Alwasl source said. Two fighters from ‘Ahrar al-Tayyaneh revolutionaries,’ Syrian rebel...

(AFP)- Syria has freed after 21 years in jail an ex-horse rider known to have been an equestrian rival of one of President Bashar al-Assad's late brothers, reports said Sunday. The release of Adnan Qassar is part of a wide-reaching amnesty that Assad decreed last week, and has...

Syria's army has been pounding for 24 hours major bases of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in coordination with the Baghdad government, a monitor said Sunday. The strikes against ISIL -- which has spearheaded a week-long jihadist offensive in Iraq -- have been more...