Israel secretly built a military outpost in the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign against Iran, housing special forces ...

The base, set up for special forces and search-and-rescue teams, was almost discovered early in the conflict.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tamara Amer is fighting “a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in ...

Iraq's new prime minister ruled out stationing U.S. ground troops in his country, chiding the international community Wednesday for inaction in Syria and lamenting the "puzzling" exclusion of ...

In what some are calling a sign of potential civil war, thousands of young Iraqis heeded the call of a top Shiite cleric to help fight an offensive by a militant Sunni group. As we've been reporting, ...

WASHINGTON -- For the first time in the year-plus fight against Islamic State militants, the U.S. is putting American combat troops on the ground in a more permanent role in Iraq and Syria. Defense ...

BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says two U.S. service members have been killed by “enemy forces” while advising and accompanying Iraqi security forces. In a statement, its says the two were killed Sunday ...

Describing terrorism as a global problem, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made a public pitch for more aid from the U.S. and the international community to help Iraq battle al Qaeda. Al-Maliki ...

The Najaf Criminal Court has sentenced an Iraqi man to life in prison for trafficking people to Russia to fight in the war against Ukraine. “The convicted, along with other defendants, formed groups ...

BAGHDAD - Iraqi forces backed by Shi'ite paramilitaries began fighting house-by-house in the one town left to take from Islamic State before they can declare complete victory over the group's former ...