Over the past two weeks, the U.S. Department of State has added four countries to its Level 4 “Do Not Travel” list. The newly listed countries are Haiti, Libya, Iraq, and Syria. These advisories ...

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani met with the new incoming commander of the anti-ISIS mission. The meeting took ...

The anti-Islamic State coalition of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve received its new commander at a ...

A large U.S. military convoy of ~100 trucks has departed two bases in Hasakah, Syria, for Iraq as part of an ongoing troop ...

From the Middle East, we verified footage of the deadly fire in Kut, Iraq, which is now known to have killed at least 61 ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

After years in a Syrian detention camp, Ibrahim Darwish was relieved to be allowed to return home to Iraq, but his joy was ...

Government-directed Internet shutdowns have been recorded in Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Panama in the second quarter of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa will not attend an Arab League summit in Iraq this week and the country’s delegation will be headed by the foreign minister, the president ...

BAGHDAD — An official invitation to new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to attend the upcoming Arab League summit in Baghdad has triggered sharp political divisions within Iraq.

But once trapped in marriage in Iraq, many Syrian women have no recourse to protection from abuse and mistreatment. For Nada, marriage meant being forced to leave her son behind in Syria once her ...