Iraq's Vice President Usama al-Nujayfi called for more military support ahead of a planned attack for retrieving Mosul, the second largest city in the country, from ISIL control. "For us to go into this war strongly, we need to receive more reinforcement," said Nujayfi, in...

   At least 30 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants and four Iraqi Peshmerga fighters were killed in clashes in northern Iraq Saturday, a Peshmerga source said. All the casualties took place in Kuwair village located 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Erbil city....

(Reuters) -  Saudi Arabia  has arrested three Saudi nationals and four Syrians over links to a suicide bombing and gun attack on the kingdom's border with Iraq, the first ground assault by militants on the frontier in years. On Monday, militants killed two Saudi...

(Reuters) - The Syrian government said on Thursday the deadly attack on a magazine in Paris showed the danger of the kind of Islamist militancy espoused by insurgent groups fighting in the Syrian civil war. A government statement blamed "short-sighted European policies" for such...