Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

On Wednesday, coinciding with Martyrs' Day, a Tehran court announced a verdict condemning the United States for its role in the brutal killing of Iranian divers captured during Operation Karbala-4 in ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Kurdish official in Kirkuk said on Monday that they have submitted over 3,000 cases of land seizures to the Iraqi justice ... been part of the Baathist regime’s ...

On March 16, 1988, the town of Halabja in northern Iraq experienced unspeakable horror. It was the day Saddam Hussein ...

This annual commemoration serves as a tribute to the courage and resilience of the Kurdish people, who fought against decades ...

Just as its fragile peace was threatened with attacks by Assad loyalists, Syria finds new ground for unity as a US-backed ...

Iraq’s policy of ... dismissed approximately 100,000 Baathist professionals — party members under Saddam’s regime — from their jobs, disbanded the military, and restructured the government ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

"A confrontation, possibly even a small-scale military one, may occur between Israel and Turkey," one expert told Newsweek.

Interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said that bringing together former rebels, ex-regime soldiers and Kurdish forces into a ...