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

Iraq will not be negatively affected by the weakening of Iran's influence in the Middle East, Iraq's deputy parliament ...

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

Iraq and the Global Coalition Against Daesh discussed today ways to eliminate terrorist organisations.Iraqi Prime Minister ...

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

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

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

Sham, which overthrew the Assad regime last month, reflects rising U.S. alarm that ISIS could mount a resurgence.

For Michael Danti of the University of Pennsylvania, the two decades before the civil war in Syria were “a golden age” for ...

Armed revolution in neighbouring Syria has been viewed with concern. The Islamist rebels now in power in Damascus were among ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.