IRAQ

Shell posted a profit of $5.1 billion in the second quarter of 2014 -- more than twice what it made in the second quarter of 2013.

In the newest wave of sectarian violence in Iraq, 15 Sunnis were shot, killed and hung in a Baghdad public square.

A high-stakes dispute over a tanker carrying $100 million in Iraqi Kurdish crude took a surprising turn on Tuesday when a U.S. judge said she lacked jurisdiction given the ship's distance from the Texas shore and urged that the case be settled in Iraq.

"We have withdrawn from the army base after heavy shelling," Saiqa special forces officer Fadel Al-Hassi told Reuters.

Many of the nearly 750,000 weapons provided by the U.S. to Afghan forces cannot be tracked, according to a Pentagon audit.

The vessel is carrying some 1 million barrels of crude worth about $100 million and arrived on the Texas coast on Saturday.

The United Kalavrvta tanker, carrying some 1 million barrels of crude worth about $100 million, arrived off the coast of Texas on Saturday but has yet to unload its disputed cargo.

Hillary Clinton aide claims that there are no differences between her and Elizabeth Warren, despite record of disagreements on policy.

One of the world's largest airlines will no longer fly over Iraq, amid concerns that ISIS militants may have ground-to-air missiles.

The mosque was one of a half-dozen destroyed in recent days by Islamic militants.

Syria says dozens of rebels were killed in operation to retake Sha'ar gas field near Homs.

As Israel and Gaza continue to exchange fire, the Pope called for an end to the war in his weekly Angelus address.

ISIS made territorial advances in Syria amid a rising casualty count among Syrian government forces.

The Syrian civil war had its deadliest week yet, with 700 people killed in just one 48-hour period.

In a landslide vote on Friday, the House said Obama can't send troops to Iraq in a "sustained combat role" without the approval of Congress.

The post is largely symbolic; since 2003, the Iraqi president has always been a Kurd.

A fatwa purportedly from the Islamic State orders girls ages 11 to 49 to undergo FGM. But is it real?

Sectarian violence threatens to rip the country apart as revenge killings between Shias, Sunnis and Kurds escalate.

Mosul is one of the holiest cities of Christianity in the Middle East and the ancient churches of Mosul are some of Christianity’s oldest.

As sectarian violence increases in Iraq, a weekend of fatal bombings culminated Tuesday with a suicide attack on a police checkpoint.

For the first time in months, Free Syrian Army rebels made advances near the capital, a move that could gain them status with the U.S.