Angelina Jolie has called on the world's leaders to do more to bring an end to the conflict in Syria and Iraq.

Authorities in Iraq say two bombings targeting busy markets have killed nine people around the capital, Baghdad.Police say the first attack took place Saturday morning when a bomb exploded in a vegetable wholesale market in a village near the town of Iskandariyah, killing four people and wounding 14.Iskandariyah is 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Baghdad.Later that morning, police say a bomb exploded at another market, killing five people and wounding 14 in the Shiite village of Sabaa al-Bour, ...

On August 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler, explaining his decision to invade Poland, asked, “Who after all speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

It's not on 1600 Pennyslvania Avenue, but a to-scale replica of the White House under construction in northern Iraq is "close enough."

A wave of car bombings and other attacks mainly targeting Shiite areas of Iraq killed at least 47 people on Tuesday, including more than 20 in the capital Baghdad, officials said.No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, which were likely carried out by Sunni militants. The extremist Islamic State group, which seized a third of the country in a lightning offensive over the summer, has claimed similar previous attacks.

The Danish government on Friday announced it was joining the coalition to strike at the Islamic State extremist group, sending seven F-16 fighter jets to take part in airstrikes against the group in Iraq.

An Algerian group linked to Islamic State jihadists threatened to kill a French hostage within 24 hours unless Paris halts air strikes on the IS in Iraq, in a video posted Monday.

After the beheading of another Western captive by ISIS, an international conference convened Monday in Paris to talk about how to tackle the threat posed by the Islamic extremist group.

Iran's oil minister says the fighting between Iraqi troops and Islamic State militants will delay the planned start of natural gas exports to neighboring Iraq.

Extremist Islamists may well have wondered how they could possibly celebrate the happiest day of their lives - their wedding - while at the same time re-affirming their commitment to violent jihad.Or they may not have. In any case, the gap in the market has now been filled by the Islamic State, which is offering honeymoon bus tours across its self-declared caliphate spanning Iraq and Syria.