The army of the semi-autonomous Puntland region in Somalia said Friday they had taken control of a "strategic mountain command base" of the Islamic State group (IS).

Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country’s dire economic conditions ...

The full implications of designating the cartels as terrorist organizations will depend, in large part, to how the ...

The second batch of Israeli hostages set to be released by Hamas this weekend are four female soldiers. That's according to ...

Donald Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is facing stiff criticism from Democrats—but most Republicans back ...

Iraq’s parliament has approved new legislation that would lower the minimum age of marriage below 18, a shift rights groups ...

A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization, face ruin from ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces ...

Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped by a suspected Iraqi militia while in Baghdad, with hopes that the Russian-Israeli researcher ...

Davos: Iraqi President Abdullatif al-Rashid described as “positive” US President Donald Trump’s commitment to peace, saying it was a step forward “in resolving conflicts in the world and Middle ...

Iraqi grocery store owner Abu Amjad al-Zubaidi is grappling with asthma, a condition his doctor blames on emissions from a nearby power plant that fills his Baghdad neighbourhood with noxious smoke.