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Men from across the globe are being recruited to join the Russian military in exchange for cash bonuses and becoming free from imprisonment.

Man who penned fiery screeds for the Islamic State identified as former Alberta trucking company employee.

Iraq's prime minister said the leader of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed by Iraqi security forces, with the support of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group.

President Barack Obama has shifted his focus away from airstrikes in Iraq as an imminent option for slowing the Islamist insurgency, in part because there are few clear targets the U.S. could hit, officials say.

By declaring the establishment of an Islamic caliphate, ISIS is claiming to be the successor of the political and religious community established by the Prophet Muhammad.

An extremist group's declaration of an Islamic state in territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria poses a threat to the entire region, Iraq's prime minister warned Wednesday.

Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier shunned as an enemy of America by some while lauded as a heroic whistle-blower by others, began the next chapter of his legal ordeal Monday under the watchful eye of a U.S. government taking unprecedented aim at those who leak state secrets.

A string of nearly a dozen apparently co-ordinated bombs and a shooting in cities across Iraq killed at least 32 and wounded dozens Sunday, extending a wave of violence that is raising fears of a return to widespread killing a decade after the U.S.-led invasion.

Libya on Thursday barred Italy, one of the country's largest investors, from its oil sector because of Rome's role in the NATO airstrikes on the country, a move that raised serious questions about investments by Italian oil giant ENI SpA in the OPEC member state.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A gasoline shortage caused by Superstorm Sandy forced 1970s-era rationing on New Yorkers Friday, adding a fuel-gauge obsession to their frayed nerves and dwindling patience.

SANAA, Yemen - Chanting "death to America" and "death to Israel," hundreds of protesters angered by an anti-Islam film stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Yemen's capital and burned the American flag on Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on American diplomatic missions in the Middle East.

Officials say a bomb has exploded in a Sunni mosque in central Iraq, killing at least 10 people.

Pivoting from the dramatic killing of the Islamic State group’s leader, the Pentagon is increasing U.S. efforts to protect Syria’s oil fields from the extremist group as well as from Syria itself and the country’s Russian allies.

Al-Baghdadi was killed last week in a U.S. raid in Syria. The group has named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi Al-Qurayshi as its new leader.

Reporters at the press conference peppered the dog with questions, asking 'are you a good boy?' and 'who's a good boy.'

Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp, the two largest U.S. oil companies operating in the Middle East, declined to comment on the President's remarks.

BAGHDAD - An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed 93 people across Iraq on Monday, officials said, in the country's deadliest day this year.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials said Friday that a blistering string of attacks across the country the previous day killed at least 93 people and wounded many more, as the extent of the violence grew clearer and mourners began to bury their dead.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials said Friday that a blistering string of attacks across the country the previous day killed at least 93 people and wounded many more, as the extent of the violence grew clearer and mourners began to bury their dead.

BAGHDAD - Iraq's Shiite prime minister told Kurdish authorities Wednesday to hand over the Sunni vice-president, who fled to the semiautonomous region to escape an arrest warrant on charges he ran hit squads targeting government officials.