Hacked communications and a social media analysis reveal how former regime leaders are trying to arm fighters and exert ...

The five cabinet positions left vacant in Tuesday’s swearing in of a new Iraqi cabinet — and the decision by Sunni vice president Ghazi al-Yawer to boycott the ceremony — suggest that democracy and ...

The fighting words from Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, who vowed Tuesday to hold on to power and crush his opponents with “an iron fist”, were optimistically interpreted by some as the bluster of ...

WASHINGTON -- Officials in the State and Defense departments told senators Friday that they know relatively little about the enemy in Iraq but they believe thousands of hidden fighters are more ...