Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Any withdrawal of US military forces and equipment from Syria by new US President Donald Trump would be a “nightmare” ...

Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones ...

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a ...

Depending on need, redeployment of troops in Syria or their assignment to different regions may be considered, says ministry ...

Turkish soldier deployment in Syria will continue, Defense Ministry sources said Thursday, as terrorist groups remain a ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and ...

Iraq said on Friday that it has extended its concrete wall along the Syrian border amid political and security uncertainty in ...

PKK terrorists targeted in northern Iraq, while 6 others in northern Syria, says Turkish National Defense Ministry - Anadolu ...

Armed revolution in neighbouring Syria has been viewed with concern. The Islamist rebels now in power in Damascus were among the Sunni Muslim militants that entered Shia-majority Iraq from Syria ...