(Reuters) - A top figure in Islamic State's self-declared police force, which has carried out beheadings, was himself found decapitated in eastern Syria , a monitoring group said. The man was an Egyptian national and was known as the deputy "emir" of the al-Hesbah force in a...

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will have a budget of $2 billion for 2015, the group’s leaders in Iraq told a London-based news outlet. Naji Abdullah, a tribal leader in Mosul, told al-Araby al-Jadeed that ISIS would be dedicating much of the funding to territory...

(Reuters) - The new head of Syria's Western-backed political opposition cast doubt on Monday on whether members of his group would attend talks in Russia this month aimed at finding a solution to the nearly four-year Syrian conflict. Moscow, one of President Bashar al-Assad's...

(Reuters) - A Saudi delegation will travel to Baghdad in the coming week to start preparations to reopen an embassy in the Iraqi capital for the first time in 25 years, official Saudi media said on Saturday. A thaw in the once chilly relations between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia...