Here’s a look at the life of the late former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.Personal:Birth date: April 28, 1937Death ...

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

Afghan and Pakistani militants who fought alongside the Syrian regime have relocated to Iraq, sparking security concerns and ...

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

I first got the opportunity to watch USAID work up close and personal in 2007, when I deployed to Iraq as commander of the ...

The lightning offensive launched in late November 2024 by armed rebel groups spearheaded by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadi group ruling Idlib in northwest Syria since 2017, led to the toppling ...

The transitional process will be fraught with challenges, but the Syrian people deserve a peaceful, stable and prosperous ...

In other words, the U.S. would fight another major insurgency in the Middle East. It would be the battle of Fallujah on steroids. The Gazan population is six times greater than that Iraqi city was in ...

Iraq’s top court has thrown out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by the country’s parliament ...

The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the United States prompted numerous counterinsurgency operations across various theaters ...

Iran emerged from its eight-year war with Iraq (1980-1988) battered: its economy in shambles, no allies to count on, a ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...