ACCORDING TO ONE legend, the Kurds are descended from 400 virgins who were raped by devils on the way to King Solomon's court. Fatah Kavian, a member of the central committee of the anti-Khomeini ...

For groups he sees as strategically useful (or favors for some other reason), the path to statehood will become more straightforward. But for those that Trump sees as strategically useless, he will ...

The ruling clerics of Tehran seek to wipe the Jewish state off the map, and the two countries ... Turkish aid to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. “Turkey for quite a while has been something ...

The conflict has expanded to southern Lebanon, reverberated in Yemen and Iraq ... Turkey, and other countries. Throughout ...

Though the museum bears Barzani’s name, it also honours a wider pantheon of figures who contributed to the Kurdish cause ...

It may be months or years before we’ll know the full results of Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets, ...

Israel's "Operation Rising Lion", as it calls its attack on Iran, is unprecedented. It is vastly more extensive and ambitious ...

President Donald Trump's administration is granting Syria a waiver from one crippling set of sanctions as well as easing restrictions on businesses as a first step in his pledge to end a half-century ...

Israel has launched a series of strikes against Iran, targeting the country’s nuclear program and other military ...

Both announcements mark a big shift in Kurdish strategy. Kurds hope that relinquishing their arms will help them negotiate ...

Islamic State Reactivating Fighters, Eying Comeback in Syria and Iraq By Ahmed Rasheed ... Trump and President Tayyip Erdogan of neighbouring Turkey want Sharaa’s government to assume ...

But it wasn’t all down to Syria lobbying on its own behalf. In announcing the policy shift, Trump largely attributed the shift to his Saudi hosts as well as Turkey. Both nations are longtime ...