At least 68 killed as PM-designate Haider al-Abadi works to unify fractured Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish citizens to confront ISIS
Islamic State presses ahead with offensive in northern Iraq, capturing country's largest dam and forcing thousands of residents to flee
Meanwhile, Israel says it wants to extend current 72-hour truce; talks on cease-fire prolongation under way in Cairo
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi voices support for quick conclusion to hostilities between Israel and Hamas militant group
Former head of Libya's interim Transitional National Congress, Mustapha Abdel Jalil, appointed to try to negotiate end to the violence
Election of 76-year-old Kurdish lawmaker breaks a major political log-jam
Inauguration follows election victory that underlines president's grip on power more than three years into Syria's civil war
Lawmaker from Diyala, Salim al-Jubouri, wins position, though it is unclear if that is part of larger deal to resolve who would become country's president and prime minister
Mostly Shi'ite volunteers will help government forces maintain control of Ramadi; Sunni insurgents hold Anbar town of Faluja
Court also orders life imprisonment for 37 other defendants, including three top leaders of now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood
Opposition activists are accusing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant of being behind the bombing
Saturday's mass death sentences include Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie; just one police officer died in the clashes around which the trial revolved
Amid conflicting reports from battlefields, Nouri al-Maliki says his forces will defeat al-Qaida-linked ISIL militants
Meanwhile, hundreds of volunteers are responding to a call to arms from Iraq's most revered Shi'ite cleric, Ayatolla Ali al-Sistani
President Obama said Thursday he is 'looking at all the options' in deciding how to respond to worsening crisis
Sunni militants target capital after seizing several other key cities, weapons and several planes in a blow to country's Shi'ite-led government
Government calls for parliament to declare state of emergency, after Islamic militants captured police and army positions, setting fire to vehicles
Abdel Fattah el-Sissi takes oath of office less than a year after he helped oust country's first freely elected president, Islamist Mohamed Morsi
Judges rule that one of the country's two rival prime ministers, Ahmed Maitiq, was named 'illegally' due to absence of quorum during vote
In vote held in conditions of civil war and boycotted by opposition groups, Bashar al-Assad said to garner 88.7 percent support
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