The extremist group ISIS shares a territorial "footprint" with an earlier and now-disbanded grassroots effort to battle Sunni jihadists in Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIS's predecessor, had been defeated ...

Iraqi officials have retracted a decision to label Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels as terrorist organizations.

Iraq and Syria is no longer exist as coherent, unitary states. By now, followers of events in the Middle East have grown used to maps that show how ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Free Syrian Army, the Assad ...

Weary of sectarian bloodshed, some Baghdad residents have taken to wearing small gold maps of Iraq around their necks to express their loyalty to a unified nation. Tom Bullock reports many Iraqi flags ...

A road map to freedom was born when swishes of blue arrows drew liberty's march on the brown terrain of Iraq. Academia around the world now can see a visualization of the opening days of that march ...

Strange things are happening in the jungles of Colombia. After years of fighting a fierce, conventional war against the leftist guerrilla group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ...

Click and drag the marker to where you think Iraq is on this map of the Middle East. When you drop it, the answer will appear, and you’ll see how your guess compares with everyone else who has played.

Sunni Arab militants from the al Qaeda splinter group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL), have gained control of ...

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas joined Kurdish leaders for the inauguration of the sprawling complex — planned as the largest U.S. consulate in the world — built on a 206,000-square-meter ...