After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi was set to declare victory over Islamic State in Mosul on Monday as only a few dozen militants put up resistance in the city that was the capital of their ...

A worrying decline in aid for education With every dollar invested in education generating GDP growth of 15 to 20 dollars, education is one of the best investments a country can make. According to ...

The future of the Palestinian Authority (PA) stands at a significantly uncertain point as it rests on the brink of economic ...

The attack during Mass at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Elias in Damascus on June 22 killed at least 25, wounded 63 ...

Politicians and the public are convinced that spending more money on weaponry automatically raises an army’s effectiveness on the battlefield ...

The World Bank has approved over $1 billion dollars for infrastructure and reconstruction projects in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. The biggest amount went to Iraq, where the World Bank approved ...

That day was so vivid and enormous it’s difficult to remember now, almost two years later, that expert warnings of Israel’s ...

The extremist group, which once controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq, has opposed the new authority in Damascus led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was once the head of al-Qaeda's Syria branch.

On the eastern outskirts of Mosul lies the village of Tobzawa, home to the Shabak minority, where Amina */sup> lives. When the Islamic State group (IS) took control of Mosul in 2014 and declared its ...

The fall of Mosul, Iraq, to ISIS in 2014 wasn’t the beginning of the struggle for the city’s Christians. Killings, abductions, and threats from armed groups had plagued the community since the ...

Mosul, Iraq’s largest Sunni population-hub, is well outside of Iraq’s Shia heartland. The Sunni makeup of the city disincentivized the predominantly Shia army to mount resistance.