Iraq military in collapse
WASHINGTON — U.S. teams of special forces going into Iraq after a three-year gap will face an aggressive insurgency, a splintering military and ...
Threat of civil war looms large
BAGHDAD — Confronting the threat of civil war in Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Baghdad today to personally urge the Shi...
DONETSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s embattled east have dismissed a unilateral cease-fire ordered by President Petro Poroshenko as fake, while nine U...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Hundreds of Afghans protested in the capital on Saturday against alleged fraud in last week’s presidential runoff, forcing a closure of the airport ...
BAGHDAD — Sunni militants have seized an Iraqi crossing on the border with Syria after a daylong battle in which they killed some 30 Iraqi troops, security officials sai...
BEIJING — China said today it was moving a second oil rig closer to the Vietnamese coast in disputed waters, near where ships from the two countries have been ramming ea...
Iraqi officials say facility not seized
BAGHDAD — Sunni militants hung their black banners on watch towers at Iraq’s largest oil refinery, a witness said today, suggestin...
Father abdicates throne for son
MADRID — Spain’s new King Felipe VI was proclaimed monarch at a formal ceremony in the country’s Parliament today, a deliberately low-key ...
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces battled insurgents targeting the country's main oil refinery and claimed to regain partial control of a city near the Syrian border today...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran over deteriorating security conditions in Iraq and is not ruling out potential U.S.-Iranian military c...
