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

The Iraqi parliament has passed an amnesty law that could lead to the release of thousands of prisoners, including Iraqis convicted of attacks on U.S. soldiers and people who fought for Islamic State, ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

The Somalian leader of the Islamic State (IS ... group with deep roots in the Levant, the territory of the IS caliphate that lasted from 2014 to 2019 and spanned Iraq and Syria.

Iraq's parliament has passed a controversial law which would allow for the legalisation of girls as young as nine to be ...

A law has been passed in Iraq that would legalise the marriage of children as young as nine. Three divisive laws have now ...

But even with these setbacks, Ansar Allah and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq pressed on with missile and drone attacks against Israel that continued to test the nation's state-of-the-art air defenses.

LONDON (Reuters) - Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed ... fuelling years of sectarian war. Islamic State crossed the same way a decade later and undertook bloody massacres before being ...

Israel-Hamas war has profoundly altered the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape. Iran and Russia, once dominant forces, have ...

Syria, a country in Southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, was deeply affected by the Arab Spring protests that swept through many nations in the Middle East and North Africa in ...

This course will provide an in-depth overview into the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as the Islamic State, the Arabic acronym Daesh, the Islamic State ...

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says he has requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban ...