Iraq's military says it has regained control of the remote western town of Rutba from the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
The bombings in Baghdad that killed hundreds in recent weeks signal a shift in the Islamic State's tactics as it suffers setbacks on the battlefield, U.S. officials said on May 18.
The United States and the European Union are protesting a move by Muslim and other unidentified nations to block gay groups from attending a United Nations conference on AIDS next month.
NATO foreign ministers are gathering in Brussels for two days of talks about how the alliance can deal more effectively with security threats outside of Europe.
At least 69 people have been killed by a series of separate bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Kazakhstan is off to a rough start in its privatization drive. China appeared to be on the verge of a bargain for shares of a prized Kazakh company, but Romania disrupted the process, raising doubts about investing in other Kazakh companies on the privatization block.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has lost nearly half, or 45 percent, of the territory it once held in Iraq, while it has lost nearly a fifth of its territory in Syria, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook has said.
The notion that the Middle East would be a much happier place today if it hadn't been for the Sykes-Picot Agreement is an attractive idea, but one that doesn't stand up to closer scrutiny.
The Sykes–Picot Agreement, signed 100 years ago, divided the Ottoman Empire into spheres of imperial control, and is often held responsible for establishing the current borders of the Middle East. Understanding it is also central to understanding the ideology (or at least the propaganda) of the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
The U.S. special envoy to the coalition fighting Islamic State (IS) militants says the group has been losing control over territory in Iraq and Syria.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has launched a deadly assault on a state-run cooking-gas factory north of Baghdad.
Several suicide bombers attacked a government complex outside the Iraqi capital, killing at least five soldiers.
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