Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, does not want to risk that. Letting out Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish politician and former presidential candidate, would have been a less controversial ...

Baghdad: Baghdad International Airport was temporarily closed on Thursday due to thick fog, with flights suspended for around ...

At around 12:30 am (2130 GMT), the ministry announced that "Baghdad International Airport has been temporarily closed to air ...

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

In U.S. political talk, Iraq is often treated as a “finished chapter.” The invasion is history, the occupation is history, ...

"The relationship between democratic socialism and the state is also being reshaped within the context of the peace and ...

When those who vandalize, exhume, and desecrate graves face no accountability -- when such incidents pass without firm legal ...

The PKK has demanded the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan from prison as a precursor to peace talks—but doing so would lead to a national crisis in Turkey.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas joined Kurdish leaders for the inauguration of the sprawling complex — planned as the largest U.S. consulate in the world — built on a 206,000-square-meter ...

The Fertile Crescent, a boomerang-shaped region spanning modern-day Middle Eastern countries, is considered the cradle of civilization and where farming first emerged. But little is known about how ...

Russia’s Rosneft has begun scaling back operations in Iraqi Kurdistan, reducing its stake in the Kurdistan Pipeline Company from 60% to 49%. The move follows Western sanctions on Rosneft and ...