Making Lami a senior officer in the army is one of the boldest moves yet by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, a U.S. ally, to dilute the p...

Pakistan's sponsorship of Taliban is intended to ensure its control on territory in Afghanistan and is also a measure to pressure the incum...

On paper, the US is working alongside the Iraqi Security Forces, Kurdish militias, Sunni tribal groups, and sectarian Shiite militias.

"ISIS will benefit a lot from this deal; segments of the Sunni community in the region will see Iran as having won and brought in from the ...

The US is making significant gains in its fight against IS. But some are still skeptical about Washington's overall strategy.

The training failures highlight a massive contradiction that is crippling Obama's strategy to combat Sunni extremist group the Islamic Stat...

ISIS is successfully marketing its "caliphate," an Islamic empire that aims to unite world's Muslims under a single religious entity.

US officials have faced criticism about the Obama administration's strategy, which is built around certain key assumptions that haven't pan...

Obama administration argues, arming and training Sunnis to defend their own territory is the only viable way to beat back Islamic State.

A successful campaign to retake the city could send ISIS into retreat. But failure would only solidify the jihadists' hold over a sizable p...

The Iraqi army, which the US has tried to build up into a viable fighting force, fled when faced with dozens of car bombs in the provincial...

A 38-year-old Indian-origin taxi driver was today sentenced to life for making a roadside bomb that killed a US soldier in Baghdad in 2007.

Americans' training mission aims to prepare Iraqi troops for a spring offensive to retake territory, incl Mosul and Islamic State's powerba...

India’s special envoy Suresh Reddy worked on his connections with Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, seeking his Naqshbandi militia’s support to rescu...

Four Naxals including three women were today arrested in connection with the attack on a polling booth in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, ...

Suicide bombers killed 46 people in Iraq on Sunday in two separate attacks targeting anti-Qaeda militiamen that marked the country's bloodi...

A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, America...