After two days of tension, thousands of pro-Iranian protesters dispersed from their encampment around the US embassy in Baghdad yesterday, cooling a siege that has trapped embassy staff inside the ...

Members of Iraqi Shiite 'Popular Mobilization Forces' armed group and their supporters attack the entrance of the US Embassy in Baghdad.EPA A member of Iraqi security forces stands near burning tyres ...

Iraqi security forces have regained control of the area around the US Embassy in Baghdad after the compound was rocked by a second day of mass protests. Earlier Wednesday security personnel fired tear ...

The siege outside of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad came to an end Wednesday afternoon after dozens of pro-Iran militiamen and their supporters withdrew from the compound. The two-day crisis started ...

The siege of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is over at least for the moment. The militia has withdrawn and while the Middle East awaits what comes next, especially after the United States’ strike on Qods ...

BAGHDAD -- The siege by supporters of an Iranian-backed militia at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad ended Wednesday after the militia ordered them to withdraw, spreading relief to the diplomats trapped ...

Trevor Lock, who has died aged 85, was the police constable taken hostage by terrorists during the siege of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980; for his bravery he was awarded the George Medal, ...

PC Trevor Lock, a hero of the famous Iranian embassy siege in London, has died at the age of 85. The Metropolitan Police bobby had only recently opted for what he thought would be a quieter life as a ...

On April 30, 1980, six Arab gunmen, claiming to fight for the political rights of ethnic Arabs in Persian-majority Iran, shot their way into the Iranian Embassy in London, taking hostage 13 Iranian ...