Imperialist and regional powers are helping the new regime gain international legitimacy by giving the impression that it has ...

Thousands of Afghan refugees who worked alongside U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and underwent a yearslong vetting process to ...

Many are now left stranded in Albania, Pakistan and Qatar awaiting transfer to the U.S. Others remain in hiding from the ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Mali's military says gunmen have attacked a convoy of vehicles escorted by the army, killing 25 civilians mostly gold miners.

Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a ...

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Of Mecca and Mammon” ...

Upholding security at the camp in Syria is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State, but contractors don ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

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

Abdi said the Kurds of Syria do not want to break away from the country or set up their own autonomous government and ...

Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad as they were in the chaotic years ...