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Iraq's Shi'ite rulers defied Western calls on Tuesday to reach out to Sunnis to defuse the uprising in the north…

Militants gained ground on Monday in a battle for a strategic Shia enclave in northern Iraq that provides a corridor…

A bomb attack targeting a weapons bazaar in eastern Syria close to the Iraqi border killed 30 "terrorists" on Saturday,…

Iran stands ready to help Iraq's government in its fight against Sunni Muslim insurgents within the framework of international law,…

Iraqi Kurds seized control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday, while surging Sunni Islamist rebels advanced towards…

Sunni insurgents from an al Qaeda splinter group closed in on Iraq's biggest oil refinery on Wednesday after seizing the…

Militants seized Iraq’s second-largest city Tuesday, officials said, in another blow to the authorities, who appear incapable of stopping rebel…

A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university…

Iraqis on Wednesday defied a rash of militant attacks to vote in the country's first elections since US troops withdrew,…

A series of explosions killed 18 people at a Shi'ite political organization's rally in Iraq on Friday, police and medical…