With Syria's new leadership emerging as a key U.S. partner, American troops in the country find themselves amid a complex ...

Providing Iraq’s air defenses, or having the US deploy air defenses at selective sites, is not likely the best answer. The ...

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS ...

Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president who fled persecution under Saddam Hussein, has been appointed the next U.N. High ...

For Israel, Kurdistan is part of its security, not a side cause. Kurdish regions in Syria, Iraq and Iran lie across the land ...

President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it ...

US military's Central Command chief says there have been 'multiple instances of collaboration' with Syria against ISIL.

A former leader of Al Qaeda has convinced Washington that he’s a liberal reformer. Now comes the hard part of following ...

Reflecting on Sharaa's performance just ahead of the one-year mark, the White House official cited Trump's December 1 Truth ...

One year into his rule Syria's leader has won over Trump and much of the West, but at home people know his weaknesses.

Hamas is ready to discuss “freezing or storing” its arsenal of weapons as part of its ceasefire with Israel, a senior ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The latest draft of the US National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) stipulates that Washington’s ...