At least 164 people were killed, but some of them died over the weekend during an assault on an army base in Anbar. Another 133 were wounded. Also, there are unconfirmed reports that an underling to Grand Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri has been kidnapped.

On Monday, the US, with the help of five other countries, began bombing Syria at last. Officially, they were bombing the Islamic State (ISIS) but it still felt like the long-predicted attack on Syria had come. Whether the target was President Assad, or ISIS, the US...

Airstrikes continued across Iraq and Syria, killing scores of Islamic State and other militants. Overall, at least 271 people were killed and 63 more were wounded.

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Iran’s foreign minister arrived in New York last week with his sights set on a final deal on Iran’s nuclear program. But a pressing regional conflict is hanging heavily over the already strained negotiations as Iran and world powers resume talks on the...

At least 103 were killed today, mostly militants in Anbar province. Another 48 were wounded, almost all of them in a bombing in Sadr City. The political fallout following a massacre at an army base over the weekend has already claimed two generals, and more may follow.

President Obama’s war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is modeled on the U.S. war against Serbia in 1999 to essentially detach its province of Kosovo – in which the United States acted as the air force for the Kosovo Liberation Army group. This model was...

At least 107 people were killed today across Iraq; however, the actual figure is likely much higher. The details from what may be another massacre at an army base are very thin, but it appears that hundreds of soldiers were probably killed or injured during bombings and clashes. At least 47 more people were wounded, mostly in a bombing in Baghdad.