Iraq

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.

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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.

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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.

Chantelle Taylor, a woman medic, killed an enemy fighter in combat in Afghanistan.

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Private conversations between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife have been secretly recorded, according the Turkish EU Minister.

The daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, ousted and killed during the Libyan civil war, has called on the Libyan people to rise up against the National Transitional Council to defend her father's orders.

Foreign troops are heading to Syria to support both the rebels and the embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, prompting fears that the conflict is set to enter a yet more lethal phase.

European cities still have the highest quality of life in the world, despite the recent turmoil, according to a new report.

Defence heads continued to depute British soldiers in less armoured Land Rovers, known as "mobile coffins," for several years after their own tests confirmed that the vehicles were highly weak and can get attacked from roadside bombs, confidential documents have revealed.

British comedian Jimmy Carr has landed in hot water after making an offensive joke about Down's syndrome children during one of his live sets.

Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy is said to have been arrested and detained by Egyptian police.

Female Army chef Private Cheryl Walker found herself out on the frontline in Afghanistan looking for women who might be carrying improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Turkish warplanes have bombed Iraq's northern Kurdish region, wounding two civilians

Iraqis loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, a well-known anti-American Islamic cleric, are fighting in Syria in support of the Assad regime, according to the opposition.

On Tuesday evening, U.S Republican presidential candidates debated issues concerning their country's foreign policy.

A resident of New York has been arrested on suspicion of planning to bomb targets, including police cars and post offices.