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ERBIL, Iraq -- A raft overloaded with people dressed in their holiday best to celebrate the Kurdish New Year sank in the Tigris River on Thursday, drowning at least 94 [...]

BAGHDADI, Iraq -- As he hunted for a seasonal delicacy, Mohaned Salah Yasseen scanned the ground intently, searching for places where the soil is cracked and slightly raised -- the [...]

BAGHDAD -- From financing the expansion of the vast courtyards that lead into the Shiite shrines of the holy city of Najaf, to ensuring that a Tehran-friendly candidate gets the [...]

The acting United States defense secretary, Patrick M. Shanahan, arrived in Baghdad early Tuesday for an unannounced visit with Iraqi leaders to discuss the American troop presence in the country [...]

President Trump's unexpected announcement that he wanted American troops in Iraq to stay there to ''watch Iran'' achieved a previously unattainable goal on Monday: unity in the Iraqi political establishment.The [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump plans to keep United States troops in Iraq to monitor and maintain pressure on neighboring Iran, committing to an American military presence in the region's war [...]

LES ANDELYS, France -- Before the local gendarmes shooed them away, the Yellow Vests found an unlikely sense of community on the traffic circles where they had gathered to demonstrate. [...]

PARIS -- Emmanuel Macron's presidency was battling a crisis less than two weeks ago, blindsided by the gathering strength and fury of the ''Yellow Vests'' protests sweeping the country. On [...]

PARIS -- The French police on Thursday night confronted and fatally shot the man believed to be responsible for killing three people and wounding many more in Strasbourg this week, [...]

PARIS -- The fine print of President Emmanuel Macron's financial proposal, intended to end protests by France's middle class and working poor, was still sinking in Tuesday, but many of [...]

PARIS -- A gunman opened fire in the picturesque city of Strasbourg on Tuesday night, killing at least three, wounding a dozen and sending terrorized shoppers and tourists scrambling for [...]

PARIS -- Faced with violent protests and calls for his resignation, President Emmanuel Macron of France said Monday that he had heard the anger of the many whose economic suffering [...]

PARIS -- With the smell of tear gas and smoke still lingering in Paris and other cities after a fourth weekend of protests, France's president planned a nationwide address on [...]

PARIS -- A fourth weekend of antigovernment protests in France turned violent again on Saturday, with demonstrators in Paris burning cars and ripping down barricades from store fronts, while the [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN and SOMINI SENGUPTA PARIS -- Vincent Picard describes himself as a 'militant ecologist.' But when protesters took to the streets to express their rage over a [...]

PARIS -- Vincent Picard describes himself as a ''militant ecologist.'' But when protesters took to the streets to express their rage over a planned increase in France's fuel tax, Mr. [...]

PARIS -- The broken glass and empty tear gas canisters have been swept away and the graffiti scrubbed off the major monuments, among them the Arc de Triomphe, after a [...]

PARIS -- President Emmanuel Macron returned to France on Sunday from a summit meeting in Argentina to find his country in turmoil after a day of violent protests.After surveying the [...]

PARIS -- A third week of anti-government protests intensified in violence on Saturday, as demonstrators burned cars, smashed windows and confronted riot police firing tear gas in the heart of [...]

BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi authorities released a video on Friday with the confession of a recently captured Islamic State operative who was involved in a notorious incident in which captured [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN and ELIAN PELTIER PARIS -- Three years to the day after he lived through the worst terrorist attack in France's modern history, Fred Dewilde and other [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN and ADAM NOSSITER Correction Appended PARIS -- All week President Emmanuel Macron toured France's World War I memory trail. He visited the killing fields of Verdun, [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN NANTES, France -- On the banks of the Loire River in this port city, students come almost every day to see France's only memorial to slaves [...]

NANTES, France -- On the banks of the Loire River in this port city, students come almost every day to see France's only memorial to slaves taken by French ships [...]

Byline: EDWARD WONG and ALISSA J. RUBIN In a startling move that could set back the country's efforts to expand its global presence, the Chinese Communist Party announced late Sunday [...]

In a startling move that could set back the country's efforts to expand its global presence, the Chinese Communist Party announced late Sunday that the missing president of Interpol, Meng [...]

PARIS -- After three months on the run, a notorious French armed robber who made a cinematic escape by helicopter from a prison near Paris in July has been recaptured, [...]

PARIS -- France publicly linked Iran's intelligence services to a foiled bomb plot that targeted a June meeting near Paris of an Iranian opposition group, and announced that it would [...]

The article focuses on a recent counterterrorism operation in Iraq, where American and Iraqi commandos raided Islamic State hideouts, killing at least 14 ISIS fighters.

PARIS -- In the first case invoking a new law against verbal sexual harassment, a French court has fined a man 300 euros -- about $350 -- for making lewd [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN PARIS -- Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a French filmmaker and writer who explored the long-term anguish of surviving Nazi death camps and challenged her compatriots about their attitudes [...]

PARIS -- Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a French filmmaker and writer who explored the long-term anguish of surviving Nazi death camps and challenged her compatriots about their attitudes toward Jews, died on [...]

Byline: ALISSA J. RUBIN and ELIAN PELTIER PARIS -- The eighth-grade girls already know what to expect from France's new smartphone ban in all primary and middle schools because their [...]

PARIS -- The eighth-grade girls already know what to expect from France's new smartphone ban in all primary and middle schools because their school voluntarily instituted one last year. ''Annoying,'' [...]