Afghan and Pakistani militants who fought alongside the Syrian regime have relocated to Iraq, sparking security concerns and ...

A hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into the Earth. Understanding why could help predict ...

Iraq’s top court has thrown out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by the country’s parliament.

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Afghan police say a suicide bomber has detonated an explosive device near a bank in northern Afghanistan, killing at least ...

Hopes for a resumption oil flows have been buoyed by the Iraqi parliament’s approval last week of a budget amendment.

Beijing must be quite nonplussed. After spending years seeking a major revision of the international order which has been in place since the Second World ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

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Acting on intelligence reports, Iraqi forces spotted four IS militants in the Zarga area, a rugged area between the provinces of Salahudin and Kirkuk, and killed them all in two airstrikes on their ...