citing ownership documents for the land that date back to the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein. In November, the Iraqi army prohibited Kurdish farmers in Kirkuk’s Sargaran subdistrict from ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

It has long been the position of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) that the continued presence of Coalition forces in ...

This meant Syria became the last ‘true’ Ba’athist nation alongside Iraq, which had now come under ... anti-Israeli policy — to the point of military confrontation — in turmoil, the ...

After the 2003 fall of Saddam’s government, al-Qaisi fled to Syria, assuming the alias “Hajj Saleh” to evade prosecution, the ...