The Islamic State has released numerous photos of its snipers in training — and they appear to be using mostly old Russian-made Dragunov rifles that American troops have faced for years in Iraq ...

Declassified spy images of Iraq have helped archaeologists find a historic Islamic battlefield ... the team found remnants of a 1,400-year-old settlement. This helped them match the site to ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s ...

After a nearly nine-month campaign to wrest Mosul, once Iraq’s second-largest city, from Islamic State control, images captured ... in this part of the Old City appear to have been scrubbed ...