Rights defenders fear Iraq may give the green light to a spree of executions of convicted jihadists in a show of strength, days after a deadly suicide attack in Baghdad. On Sunday, an official from ...

The execution of prominent Saudi Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr is an “aggression”, Iraq’s top Shiite authority Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said in a statement Sunday. “We received with deep sadness ...

Saudi Arabia has executed multiple Iraqi nationals convicted of attempting to smuggle narcotics into the kingdom through its Northern Borders region, according to an official statement issued on ...

Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) celebrate on vehicles taken from Iraqi security forces, at a street in city of Mosul, June 12, 2014. automation A top United Nations ...