Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick was not involved in the murder of detainees, but the formative experience influenced ...

Two decades after US military invasion left it spiraling out of control, a more stable Iraq is beginning to attract ...

The Peace Prize committee in Oslo has increasingly allowed geopolitical considerations to guide the selection of an awardee.

Alcohol has long been easily accessible in Baghdad, but a crackdown in recent years has made booze much more difficult to ...

Nearly 2,600 Yazidis remain missing a decade after IS rampaged through their Iraqi heartland. Most are feared dead, but ...

Iraq’s economic growth is climbing as it leverages its connections with major economies in the East and the West—and its ...

Hegseth, a staunch opponent of DEI initiatives and former guard at Guantanamo, has less leadership experience than General ...

SINJAR, Iraq, - Aydin Hadid Talal thought his whole family had been killed in Islamic State’s ferocious assault on Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority a decade ago. Then last year, the 20-year ...

My heart is breaking. My soul is aching,” an archaeologist said, as Israel’s bombardment threatens or destroys Roman amphitheaters, crusaders’ citadels and centuries-old souks.

The incoming Trump administration will have the opportunity to avenge the attempted assassination of President-elect Donald ...

A Coalition convoy of US led international coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stops to test fire their M2 machine guns and MK19 grenade launcher in the Middle ...

The Pentagon warned in July that attacks in Syria and Iraq that were claimed by the Islamic State, or ISIS, were on track to double the number last year, indicating a resurgence of the terrorist ...