Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters have clashed around two prisons i housing members of the Islamic State group in Syria's northeast.

Coretta Scott King condemned the brutality of the Vietnam War and criticized how it drained money from housing, health care, ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are set to merge into the Syrian army after suffering major setbacks.

Washington is caught between preventing a collapse of its Kurdish partners’ self-ruling enclave and supporting the Syrian ...

Some protesters expressed fears that if they spoke out about Trump, his administration could bar them from visiting the ...

Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi Shiite militia, warned the United States that if Washington launched a war with Iran, the group ...

American military forces carried out a strike in Syria which killed an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist directly linked to a Dec ...

At President Donald Trump’s direction, CENTCOM launched strikes Dec. 19 against over 70 ISIS targets across central Syria, ...

Iraq has become a strategic battleground between Western powers and China–Russia. China has deeply entrenched itself in Iraq’s energy and infrastructure, controlling about a third of proven reserves ...

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Honorary Research Fellow, City St George's, University of London Iraqis went to the polls on November 11 to vote in parliamentary elections. Preliminary results put the coalition of Iraq’s prime ...