Officials provided a timeline on Friday for the U.S. military mission ending in Iraq, but stopped short of ... near an F-16 US-made aircraft at the Balad Air Base north of Baghdad on April 24 ...

Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...

WASHINGTON, January 13. /TASS /. The US personnel are not present at Balad air base in Iraq, that was attacked on Sunday, a spokesman with the headquarters of the Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR ...

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In dramatic scenes that appear to mark a turning point in nearly two years of civil war, Sudan’s military is driving fighters ...

Balad, Iraq, March 3, 2008: Sgt. Shane Pepin, 27, of Cornelia, Ga., stands next to a Black Hawk helicopter while the pilots conduct an early evening preflight check in Balad, Iraq. The flight was ...

Fighters from the Iran-linked militia Saraya al-Salam withdraw from a protest near Iraq’s parliament building. Ameer Al-Mohammedawi/picture alliance/Getty Images On the two-decade anniversary of ...