IRAQ

Tikrit would be the first city that was taken over by the Islamic State to be reclaimed by the government.

Aid organizations operating in Syria can deliver aid to those in need more easily after the UN Security Council passed its resolution.

The U.N. Security Council on Monday authorized humanitarian access without Syrian government consent at four border crossings into rebel-held areas from Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, although Syria has warned it deems such deliveries an attack.

When ISIS began its takeover of key cities in Iraq last month, it seemed it would march on Baghdad as well. What happened?

The international human-rights group claimed Iraqi security forces indulged in "mass extrajudicial killings" of at least 255 prisoners.

The moves escalated a feud between the Shi'ite-led central government and the autonomous Kurdish region driven by a Sunni insurgency which threatens to fragment Iraq along sectarian and ethnic lines three years after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

The Paris-based energy watchdog forecast growth in global oil demand and rising supplies from non-OPEC nations in its monthly oil market report.

The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said the there's no "significant" safety risk from the material falling into the hands of ISIS.

The announcement comes after Nouri al-Maliki accused Erbil, the Kurdish capital, of becoming an operations base for ISIS.

The Iraqi ambassador warns the U.N. that insurgents may use the materials to make "weapons of mass destruction."

Loved ones of MH370 passengers hang on to hope, but the global public may have moved on, as fundraising totals show.

Many of the bodies were blindfolded and had their hands tied.

In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, made public on Tuesday, Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said the Muthanna facility north of Baghdad was seized on June 11. He said remnants of a former chemical weapons program are kept in two bunkers there.

In the coming battle for Aleppo, opposition battalions must fight both Assad's troops and ISIS.

Isis announced it will rebrand to avoid association with the militant group that has terrorized Iraq and Syria.

A map showing a plan for ISIS expanding its caliphate spread on social media, but experts say it isn't what it seems.

The possible delay comes as a top Iraqi general is killed by militants 10 miles outside of Baghdad.

Leaders of the Syrian National Coalition are meeting in Istanbul this week to talk about new ways to fight ISIS.

The girls snuck out of their bedroom in Manchester and hopped on a fight to Turkey. They are now believed to be in Syria.

Syria's Lake Assad experienced a record 20-foot drop in water levels as government and opposition forces crank up hydroelectric power.

Citing unrest in the Middle East, TSA has announced that US-bound passengers are required to show their electronics -- and they must be charged.