ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq said on Friday that it has extended its concrete wall along the Syrian border amid political and security uncertainty in the neighboring country. “The border ...

Economy has been battered by corruption and 13 years of civil war. Coupled with international sanctions and mismanagement, ...

In the following article, I respond to these esteemed Israeli officials by explaining why the federal model is unsuitable for Syria, just as it failed in Iraq. Syria is a highly diverse society ...

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

ANKARA: The Turkish military killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq, the defence ministry ... organisation that is trying to weave a wall of blood between us and our Kurdish ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups met in northern Iraq on Thursday in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has ...

With the remarkable overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria by a group of rebels led by ... Take post-Saddam Hussein Iraq as a case in point. After the Iraqi dictator was overthrown by a U.S ...

Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government say they have thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off ...

In 2011, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, dispatched Sharaa to Syria to form a local group after the revolt against Assad started. Sharaa’s nomme de guerre, Jawlani ...

Days after five decades of totalitarian rule by the Assad family dynasty ended, I went to Damascus, Syria. Two decades earlier, in Iraq, I witnessed the United States-led invasion and, as a ...