Seven months after the fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad, FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr gained rare access to sites ...

Iraq is sending firefighters, water tankers and other equipment to help battle forest blazes in coastal Syria, as a multinational effort to extinguish the flames enters a ninth day. Already crews from ...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime had opened a "Pandora's box" of volatile ethnic and sectarian tensions that could engulf ...

LIMA — Taylor Cleveland said sharing his experiences serving in the Iraq War at Monday’s Lima Rotary Club meeting was different for him.

DAMASCUS, June 12 (Reuters) - Middle East leaders and their Western allies have been warning that Islamic State could exploit the fall of the Assad regime to stage a comeback in Syria and neighbouring ...

Twenty years has a way of playing with your mind. Some days, those memories seem like they just occurred yesterday, and at ...

Old men cry war, young men die - Part 1When Eric Johnston, who befriended Stalin at the Kremlin in 1944, was asked if he ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Steve Coll about the parallels between Iraq and Iran when it comes to discussions of a potential war due to an adversarial country's weapons program.

But the invasion itself weaponized these differences. When you divide the society into oppressed and the oppressor, you push a whole segment of the Iraqi—because Saddam was a Sunni, then all Sunnis ...

Nicholas J. Schlosser, The IRAQ WAR TWENTY Years Later, Army History, No. 126 (WINTER 2023), pp. 6-25 ...