The killing comes as the group has been reconstituting in Syria, carrying out more attacks than at any time since it lost ...

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known as Abu Khadija, was killed by Iraqi forces.

Syria's foreign minister made his first visit to Iraq since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and called on Baghdad to reopen the ...

BAGHDAD — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

By Malak Shalaby Before modern borders, before passports, before Google Maps—these Middle Eastern countries were already thriving. From ancient civilizations to empires that shaped art, science, and ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

A suspected participant in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members and roughly 170 ...

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pushed Iraq’s Prime Minister to reopen the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline. The U.S. and its allies ...

Iraq want their World Cup qualifier against Palestine next month moved from the Jordanian capital of Amman, having also knocked back a Palestinian proposal to stage the match just outside Jerusalem.