Trump's pick to head U.S. intelligence has broken with its assessments several times since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ...

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

Observers are warning that detention camps in Syria housing thousands of terrorists loyal to the bloodthirsty group are close ...

A BRITISH holiday firm plans to restart trips to Syria just six weeks after the fall of tyrant Bashar al-Assad’s regime. London-based Untamed Borders stopped taking travellers there last year amid ...

A decade later, 27-year-old Silvana Khider walked for days across Syria as president Bashar al-Assad's rule came to an end, and was reunited with her sister in Iraq. While she was taken by IS ...

And its network in Iraq and Syria persists," he added ... The 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan and the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria last month to the al Qaeda-derived organization ...

The dramatic ouster of former Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad on 8 December has sparked anxiety in Iraq that the Islamist group now in charge in Syria will scramble the fragile sectarian balance ...

Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has been named as Syria’s president for a transitional period.

In less than two months, Syria’s Ahmed al-Sharaa has risen from rebel leader to interim president, after his Islamist group ...

Hezbollah battered in Lebanon and Bashar al-Assad ousted in Syria. A rare ally of both Washington and Tehran, Iraq’s balancing act has been tested by Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups’ attacks on ...

In Iraq, the Baathists ruled for 35 years ... to the family of colonel Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar. The political and cultural landscape of the Middle East, post-Baath, is marked by ...