Regional and local leaders have signaled their acceptance of Haider al-Abadi as the primary candidate for prime minister. Also, the U.S. military is sending 130 more troops to Iraq. At least 268 people were killed, mostly militants, and 83 were wounded.

The stark admission by the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA’s) Inspector General that the agency had broken into a classified computer network used by its overseers at the Senate Intelligence Committee violates the core principle of separation of powers of...

U.S. air strikes since Friday have opened a corridor through which tens of thousands of Yazidis, trapped and starving on a mountain in Iraq, have escaped to safety in Kurdistan. The Kurds, whose peshmerga fighters were sent reeling by the Islamic State last week,...

United Nations officials and human rights organizations have characterized Israeli attacks on civilian targets during the IDF war on Gaza as violations of the laws of war. During the war, Israeli bombardment leveled whole urban neighborhoods, leaving more than 10,000...

Iraq has a new prime minister, Haider al-Abadi; however, the outgoing premier, Nouri al-Maliki is putting up a fight instead of handing over the reins. Meanwhile, 247 people were killed and 22 were wounded. One of the dead was a well-respected Kurdish journalist from Turkey.

If we want to understand why President Obama has broken yet another major campaign promise and ordered America’s return to Iraq, the key question to ask is: Why now? After all, the Islamic State in Syria/al-Sham (ISIS) has been scoring dramatic military gains for...

The US government's decision to apply more sanctions on Russia is a grave mistake and will only escalate an already tense situation, ultimately harming the US economy itself. While the effect of sanctions on the dollar may not be appreciated in the short term, in the...

At least 96 people were killed and 85 more were wounded. There were very few reports of attacks. The city of Jalawla in Diyala, however, had a number of casualties due to a bombing and clashes. There are reports that Peshmerga units lost control of the town. Meanwhile, the prime minister deployed troops around Baghdad in what may be some kind of show of force.

At least 151 people were killed and 60 were wounded, as U.S. airstrikes continued. Most of the dead were militants. Several bombs wounded a number of civilians.

At the end of July, a "Special Investigative Task Force" (SITF) announced (PDF) the results of its three-year inquiry into charges of heinous atrocities involving the "Kosovo Liberation Army". Insofar as it deigned to acknowledge any atrocities were committed by these...