IRAQ

When U.S. Navy jets bombed targets in northern Iraq Friday, they had their sights on helping Kurdish fighters, not only on hurting ISIS.

An Iraqi Human Rights Ministry spokesperson said ISIS kidnapped hundreds of Yazidi women, and many will be sold or married off to militants.

Islamic State called for sleeper-cell attacks on U.S. interests in a response to the authorization of U.S. airstrikes.

The U.S. began to drop relief supplies Friday to beleaguered Yazidi refugees fleeing Islamist militants in Iraq.

On the same day U.S. Navy jets bombed northern Iraq, the Federal Aviation Administration barred all U.S. airlines from flying over the entire country.

Whether Friday morning's airstrike was preplanned or time-sensitive, it involved a complicated multi-step process.

Three years after U.S. operations ended in Iraq, U.S. Navy F/A-18 jets are back over the country, to bomb targets in Kurdistan.

The airstrikes and food drops authorized by President Barack Obama were welcomed by Iraqis who want to return to their homes.

U.S. warplanes struck Iraq on Friday for the first time since American troops pulled out in 2011, attacking Islamist fighters advancing towards the Kurdish region after President Barack Obamasaid Washington must act to prevent "genocide."

President Obama authorized targeted military airstrikes on Islamic State-controlled towns in Iraq, after the Iraqi government requested help.

American forces have begun humanitarian air drops over Iraq while Kurdish officials claim that the U.S. has started airstrikes.

The White House has delayed military action in Iraq, but is now considering airstrikes against IS.

Etihad Airways said that it was suspending all flights to Erbil until further notice, given the escalating warfare in northern Iraq.

Many northern Iraqi towns, home to the country's minorities, have fallen to ISIS, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.

Lebanon's army surrounded a border town occupied by Islamist militants as mediators reported progress in negotiations to end to the most serious spillover of Syria's civil war yet onto Lebanese soil.

The attack 25 miles southwest of Arbil came after the Sunni militants inflicted a humiliating defeat on the Kurds on Sunday with a rapid advance through three towns.

Branded as devil worshipers by extremists, as many as 200,000 Yazidis in northern Iraq fled their homes following a siege by ISIS.

Buried fully extended, with arms at his sides and hands over his abdomen, the man would have been nearly 5 feet 10 inches tall.

The latest round of fighting with Islamist insurgents, which has so far killed 17 Lebanese soldiers, began Saturday.

After the death of a top U.S. military official in Afghanistan, experts express concerns about security in the country.

The U.S. officer killed Tuesday in Afghanistan has been identified as U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene.