Middle East

Iraqi Security Forces Storm Fallujah In Bid To Retake City

Shiite fighters with Iraqi security forces fire artillery during clashes with Islamic State militants near Falluja, Iraq, May 29, 2016. (Photo/Reuters)

Iraqi security forces began an operation Monday to retake the city of Fallujah from Islamic State extremists, storming the stronghold.... .

Italian Navy Saves 550 Refugees As Smugglers' Trawler Capsizes In Mediterranean

An overcrowded boat of refugees capsizes off the Libyan coast. (Photo/AP)

More than 500 people narrowly escaped drowning on Wednesday after their smugglers’ boat capsized in the southern Mediterranean, a s.... .

Kerry, Egypt's Sisi Discuss Mideast Peace, Libya Conflict

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt May 18, 2016. (Photo/Reuters/Amr Nabi)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held brief talks with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Wednesday, a day after th.... .

Talks On Syria Seek To Extend Fragile Truce To Aleppo

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, right, speak to the media during a press briefing after their meeting in Geneva, May 2, 2016. (AP/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Negotiations are underway to extend a fragile cease-fire agreement in Syria to the embattled northern city of Aleppo, which a surge o.... .

Baghdad Protests Turn Violent at Green Zone

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A supporter of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr hurls a tear gas canister back at security forces during clashes after demonstrators broke into Baghdad's fortified