In Iraqi Kurdistan, President Masoud Barzani welcomed the holiday while also taking a moment to condemn an ongoing salary crisis, in which the Iraqi government has suspended the salaries of ...

On November 11, Iraqis will head to the polls in their country’s sixth parliamentary elections since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. These elections are expected ...

A political group backed by Kataib Hezbollah, a powerful armed faction within the Axis of Resistance – an Iran-backed umbrella group for militias in the region. It sent fighters to Syria after civil ...

Israeli television has in the past broadcast photographs from the 1960s showing father Barzani embracing the then Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan. In alliance with its erstwhile rival, the ...

Assad’s leadership quickly descended into authoritarianism, marked by mass repression and a devastating civil war. This video ...

In a stunning shift in Middle Eastern politics, Syria, under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad, has rejoined the Arab League after 12 years of political isolation. This dramatic turn of events was ...

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

More than a decade after being isolated by the Arab world for his brutal crackdown during Syria’s civil war, President Bashar ...

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...