IRAQ

An Associated Press video shows the mausoleum, which once featured poster-sized pictures of Saddam, now reduced to concrete rubble.

A bag of explosives went off at a checkpoint next to a Janzour security directorate building, west of Tripoli, wounding five policemen.

Four years into the war, regional and sectarian divisions have turned Syria into an international battleground.

The nearly two-week-old operation to win back the city from the radical Islamist militants has been stalled since Friday.

In an interview with U.S. Catholic website Crux, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said the jihadists were committing "genocide" and must be stopped.

The exercises come days after President Obama issued a new round of sanctions against Venezuelan officials.

The militia leader says the remnants of the Islamic State group forces in the Iraqi city have been “surrounded from all sides.”

Prosecutors say Amar R., 33, and Said M., 25, collaborated with the man who murdered a police officer and four Jewish hostages.

Closer ties to the Islamic State group will likely mean more foreign fighters and media savvy for the Nigerian terrorists.

It's not clear which member of the U.S.-led coalition the spy worked for. The Turks aren't saying.

Participants are volunteers who want to liberate their land from the Islamic State group, a training academy commander said.

Police say they have conclusively linked Mehdi Biswas to "Shami Witness," a pro-ISIS Twitter account.

The suspected militants were planning attacks in Spain and recruiting fighters to send to Iraq and Syria.

Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population and has grappled for years with attacks from homegrown militants for years.

NBC News chief medical editor resigned after stoking public ire by violating a voluntary quarantine prompted by her visit to an Ebola-hit zone.

ISIS militants reportedly torched thousands of ancient, historic manuscripts in Iraq and sold artifacts they looted from archaeological sites.

The EU's parliament approved a non-binding resolution to create a safe haven in Iraq's Nineveh Plains vulnerable minority groups.

The Islamic State group has a strict application process for jihadist militias pledging allegiance.

A city north of Baghdad is key to the Iraq military's broader strategy to retake the further-north city of Mosul.

The Islamic State group, which is struggling to hold Tikrit, appears focused on Ramadi, the Anbar provincial capital.

Jake Bilardi, who died in a suicide attack in Iraq, had allegedly written a blog providing information about his plans.