Iraq

The Israeli intelligence agency Mossad is using Iranians exiles living in the Iraqi region of Kurdistan to target Iranian nuclear experts, it has been reported.

Pope Benedict has stated gay marriage is a threat to “the future of humanity itself” in latest speech.

Hekmati, a former U.S. marine, was shown on Iranian television on December 18, 2011 as confessing to infiltrating the Iranian intelligence services for the CIA.

The 34-mile wide (at its narrowest point) oil transit route holds the key to deciding a new geopolitical equation as major world powers are already taking sides in case of a war.

Frank Wuterich, a 31-year-old Marine staff sergeant, is accused of killing of 24 Iraqis along with his squad in the city of Haditha in 2005.

More than 50 people have been killed in a spate of bomb attacks in southern Iraq and Baghdad.

Baghdad's Shiite districts targeted by five bomb attacks stoking fears of rising sectarian violence.

President Barack Obama addressed the Democrat Iowa caucus through live video conference from Washington.

The scale of human loss caused by the Iraq conflict has been starkly drawn by a report showing more than 123,000 civilian deaths over the nine year campaign.

Turkey agrees to pay compensation over botched airstrike but refuses to apologise for it.

Plans are under way for the smooth handling of the eventuality that involves the presence of the Queen and other dignitaries from around the world, a report has said.

Erdogan accused of being as bad as Syrian president Assad after 35 civilians die in Uludere.

Victims' identities disputed after air raid near Turkey's border with Iraq.

Former prime minister's old colleagues and friends asked to contribute to the programme.

Bombing attacks co-ordinated across Iraqi capital prompt fears government rift is deepening sectarian and ethnic divisions.

Thousands of Iraqi Christians were forced to flee their homeland after a series of attacks targeting them.

A wave of co-ordinated bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraq have killed at least 57 people and injured 176.

Despite signing an agreement earlier this week to allow Arab observers into the country, the death toll in Syria has continued to rise, with fresh attacks on villages and protesters resulting in 100 deaths on Tuesday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki has threatened to resign if the parliament does not pass a no-confidence vote against deputy minister Saleh al Mutlaq.

A timeline of important events in the deceased Kim Jong-il's life which shaped North Korea's political landscape.

The death of Christopher Hitchens is a cause of great sadness not only to his family but to a great many people, myself included, who have enjoyed and admired his writing and, perhaps even more so, his speaking.

December 2011 officially marks the full withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, but with a divided political landscape, an increasing insurgency attack and the Syrian crisis still threatening to spread, the country's future is still uncertain.

A powerful committee in the British Parliament has raised concerns over the future care of troops returning from service with severe injuries and mental health problems.

The U.S. military flag in Baghdad was formally cased Wednesday, marking the historic end of the American campaign in Iraq nine years after the invasion.

A Norway-based Islamist has called on jihadists to target the United States in attacks similar to those which took place on 9/11.

Blast injury research centre opens at Imperial College

Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian and Latvian convicts are a growing prescence among the multi-national British prison population, figures from the Ministry of Justice reveal.

A suicide bomber has attacked a shrine in Afghan capital Kabul during the Shia holy day of Ashura.

At least 22 people were killed and 46 wounded in two separate car bomb attacks targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in the city of Hilla in Iraq during a major religious ritual.

WikiLeaks' chief and founder Julian Assange was given a lifeline in his extradition appeal as judges ruled he can take his case to the highest court in Britain.