WASHINGTON(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States is interested in communicating withIranto share information about the Sunni insurgency spreading acrossIraq, but Washington is not seeking to work together with Tehran to address the crisis. "We are interested in communicating withIran. That the Iranians know what we're ...

Iraqi security forces have killed 279 "terrorists" in the past 24 hours, as they push back against a major Sunni insurgent offensive, a spokesman said. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's security spokesman, Lieutenant General Qassem Atta, made the announcement during a televised news conference. Iran warned on Sunday that "any foreign military intervention ...

(Reuters) - This week's advance by Sunni insurgents in Iraq provides a powerful argument for why Iran andSaudi Arabia should bury their Cold War-style feud, but is nonetheless likely to set back detente between the Gulf's dominant Sunni and Shi'ite powers. After decades of often overt Saudi-Iranian hostility that polarized the Middle East - and three ...