A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the Iraq-Iran border region killed over 340 people across both countries, sent people fleeing their homes into the night and was felt as far away as the Mediterranean coast, authorities reported on Monday.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi religious artifacts smuggled from the Middle East that the government alleges were intentionally mislabeled for import, federal prosecutors said.
Rochester, MN (KROC AM News) - The Corporal Curtis M Swenson Memorial Fund will have a short program Tuesday to present five high school students from southeast Minnesota $1000 scholarships for educational purposes.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal prosecutor says three Minnesota men accused of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group were deeply committed to their cause and undeterred by their failures.
Minneapolis, MN (Learfield) -- The federal trial for three Somali-American men from Minnesota starts tomorrow (Monday). They are accused of conspiring to join the Islamic State in Iraq with the intent of committing murder abroad.
TEMECULA, Calif. (AP) The U.S. Department of Defense says a coalition service member killed Saturday by enemy fire in northern Iraq was a Marine from Southern California.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say the Islamic State group has launched two chemical attacks, killing a three-year-old girl and wounding some 600 people near the northern city of Kirkuk.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John," U.S. officials said, but it was still unclear whether the strike killed the British man who appears in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages.
TIANJIN, China (AP) — China's official Xinhua News agency says 12 firefighters are among the 44 people killed in massive explosions at a warehouse in the port city of Tianjin.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Temperatures hovered around 126 degrees in Baghdad on Thursday. Scorching temperatures are normal this time of year, but an unprecedented heat wave prompted Iraqi authorities to declare a mandatory four-day holiday beginning Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the Islamic State group's takeover of Ramadi is evidence that Iraqi forces do not have the "will to fight."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says a small number of Islamic State fighters who attacked an Iraqi air base that hosts about 400 U.S. forces were killed in a counterattack by Iraqi troops.