After 40 years, the Kurdish group PKK announced disbandment and an end to the Turkish insurgency. What is the PKK? Who are ...

A map shows ... deal with Iran "the way it was done in Libya," which, under longtime leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, shuttered its ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Four days of clashes between pro-government gunmen and members of a minority sect in Syria have left nearly 100 ...

A massive dust storm has swept across central Iraq, severely reducing visibility as vehicles navigate the hazardous conditions in Babil province. Sandstorms are common in central and southern Iraq.

Iraq’s buffalo population has more than halved in a decade as the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, suffer ...

U.S. Navy Tensions between the United States and Iran, as well as the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, have been rising in recent months due to Tehran's nuclear program and the Houthi ...

The president has been even more truculent in regard to Iran. He threatened to subject ... including stints in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, before embarking on a career as a conservative ...

Children have frequently been victims of the separatist conflict in Thailand’s southern border provinces, which has claimed more than 7,000 lives—mostly civilians—since the outbreak of armed ...

The Iraqi government announced on Thursday the launch of six major industrial projects in Al-Muthanna province with a total investment of $1.171 billion. The projects were remotely launched by Iraqi ...

And crucially, Tehran appears to understand that the alternative to diplomacy would be direct military confrontation, at a time when it is perhaps weaker than it’s ever been since the Iran-Iraq War in ...

Iran says it has fired more than a dozen ballistic ... According to al Maydan tv, sirens were heard and American helicopters were seen flying over Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province early ...