Let’s look at the reality on the ground in the Middle East: Iraq and Syria are effectively partitioned along sectarian lines; …

  Prosecutors claimed to have identified one of the “key players” and leaders of the cell that assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik …

    One person was killed and three others were wounded on Wednesday afternoon when the wall of an old building collapsed …

Earlier this week, roughly 800 insurgents — many of them linked to the extremist al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS — took over the country's second-largest city, Mosul, after 30,000 Iraqi troops fled.

Iraqi officials in Baghdad conceded that the fighters commandeered military arsenal, released hundreds of prisoners from jail, and seized up to $430 million from the city's central bank.