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 ...

"Returning to Syria endangers my family. Human rights groups confirm it isn’t safe," said the father of three children, aged ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern Iraq, the first ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

The June 22 attack on the Mar Elias church, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens, was the latest alarm for ...

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 ...

A US envoy said on Wednesday that Syria's central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging their forces after the latest round of talks, a persistent obstacle as the new ...

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

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to terminate U.S. sanctions against Syria in a massive first step to ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Sayeh Seydal, a jailed Iranian dissident, narrowly escaped death when Israeli missiles struck Tehran’s Evin ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump gave his final sign-off Monday to lifting longstanding US sanctions on Syria after pledging to ...

Iran has long held that conflict with Israel can be managed by limiting its retaliation within clearly defined parameters.