As Syria recovers from 13 years of civil war and five decades under the Assad regime, its citizens face the daunting task of rebuilding their nation. Saleh Hawa, a Syrian literature professor and ...

Many in Iraq fear that IS could take advantage of the security vacuum to stage a comeback while Syria’s new leaders are still consolidating their control over the country and forming a national army.

Watching the videos of Israeli hostages being released from Gaza the last two weeks has brought a special kind of joy — and pain — to Emma Tsurkov. She does not know Emily, Romi, Doron, Karina, ...

After the 2003 fall of Saddam’s government, al-Qaisi fled to Syria, assuming the alias “Hajj Saleh” to evade prosecution, the ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

President Donald Trump returned to the White House, facing a world that is arguably more complicated than when he left the building four years earlier. The war in ...

Amid historical changes in the balance of power in the Middle East, at least one thing remains constant: the strategic ...

Early in his first administration, President Trump noted the general’s “brilliance and fortitude.” And then the president got ...

Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, collectively part of the Hashd al Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), face increasing calls to ...

While Baghdad recently listed the PKK as a banned organisation, Ankara has called on Iraq to formally designate the group as a terrorist organisation.

Four people were killed on Monday in an air strike blamed on Turkey in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish sources ...