Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam ...

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — (AP) — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country's interim president on Wednesday in a push to project a ...

HOMS, Syria — Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the Syrian rebel group that overthrew Bashar al-Assad's government, was named head of a new interim government, according to the Syrian news agency, citing ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian factions that toppled President Bashar Assad last month named an Islamist former rebel leader as the country‘s interim president on Wednesday in a push to project ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad is named the country's interim president.