The Iraqi government is looking to gain control of Iranian-aligned armed groups that operate inside of Iraq but outside state ...

Three ISIS fighters have been killed in Iraq’s vast western province of Anbar, said the Popular Mobilisation Forces, a ...

Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled terror in generations of Syrians: a place of ...

Iran holds tremendous sway inside Iraq despite the presence of US troops, setting up a tug-of-war for the incoming Trump ...

BY Kelsey Norman, Rice University and Ana Martín Gil, Rice University(THE CONVERSATION) For more than a decade, Syrians have been the world's largest refugee population.More than 6 million Syrians ...

Iraq is concerned about a potential resurgence ... to the country after the overthrow of former President Bashar Al-Assad. The extremist group “became bigger, attracted more members recently ...

On Saturday, an informed source revealed three reasons for the increase in air traffic at the Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq in order to turn it into a center for equipping other bases. In an ...

Thousands of Shiite pilgrims are marching in Iraq dressed in black, heading on foot toward the golden twin-domed shrine of ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday he would sign a bilateral security deal with Britain as well as a strategic partnership accord as he headed to London for an official visit ...

The dramatic ouster of former Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad on 8 December has sparked anxiety in Iraq that the Islamist group now in charge in Syria will scramble the fragile sectarian balance ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq will not be negatively affected by the weakening of Iran's influence in the Middle East, Iraq's deputy parliament speaker said, with Baghdad looking to chart its own ...