THE arid steppes of northeastern Syria stretch almost uninterrupted to the Iraqi border, broken only by the occasional oil derrick, until the road reaches a sprawling prison camp.

Israel broke a diplomatic taboo by recognizing Somaliland and triggered a predictable storm of outrage and conspiracy ...

The long-standing salary issue facing civil servants in the Kurdistan Region is expected to be resolved in the new year, ...

An old cache of mortar shells and mines dating back to the Iran-Iraq war has been discovered in the village of Kokoyi, ...

Iraq announced Wednesday it would assume control next week of a key military base from the U.S.-led coalition fighting Daesh ...

A decade ago, the Islamic State terrorist group was a household name. Tens of thousands of fighters, many from countries as ...

Iraq 's parliament elected Farhad Al Atroushi as second deputy speaker in a third round of voting on Tuesday, after no ...

Iranian opposition figures told Alhurra that Iran is building a security wall inside Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, running parallel to the Iranian border. Khalil Kani Sinani, a senior figure in the ...

Baghdad, Erbil, and oil firms operating in northern Iraq have agreed to renew a major deal to export oil through the Turkish ...

Sudani's bloc defeated Nuri al-Maliki's strategy in parliament, while Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq reacts to U.S. warnings.

The question is less about whether terrorism is still a threat and more about how the United States chooses to respond to it.