The Iraqi government is looking to gain control of Iranian-aligned armed groups that operate inside of Iraq but outside state ...

It has always been a dream to return here,” said Abu Hamza, one of the few visitors to Palmyra since last month’s downfall of ...

Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday after talks in Baghdad that a joint battle using "all our resources" must ...

For more than a decade, Mr. al-Assad remained in power, employing vicious means to do so while enjoying an obscene amount of ...

With the end of the final US-led coalition force in Iraq, the Iranians may feel they have a golden opportunity. But ...

Iran holds tremendous sway inside Iraq despite the presence of US troops, setting up a tug-of-war for the incoming Trump ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan urged for a unified effort to combat Islamic State and Kurdish militants after his ...

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the killing of a Chinese national in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, in a post on its Telegram channel late on Wednesday.

The Iraqi parliament has passed an amnesty law that could lead to the release of thousands of prisoners, including Iraqis ...

In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...