For Iranians whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani widely represented a figure of national resilience in the face of four decades of U.S. pressure. For the U.S. and Israel, he was a shadowy figure in command of Iran's proxy...

Elite Iraqi troops deployed to secure the US embassy Thursday, a day after a pro-Iran mob laid siege to it in dramatic scenes that overshadowed months of anti-government grassroots protests. The unprecedented attack on the American mission in Baghdad -- in which intruders threw rocks, laid...

An Iraqi activist was shot dead overnight in Baghdad, a police source told AFP Thursday, as anti-government rallies carried on despite a separate day-long siege of the U.S. embassy. The activist, Saadoun al-Luhaybi, was shot in the head in a southwestern neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) group has kidnapped four Republican Guard troops near the Dumayr military airbase east of the Damascus, activists said Thursday. The Kidnapped soldiers, originally from Suweida, the main stronghold of Druze community, who has been subjected to a series of...