Iraqi army commanders visit by helicopter a military base near a border crossing with Syria at Al-Qaim ANBAR (Reuters) -Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria for trade and ...

Iraq and Syria on Tuesday discussed ways to boost bilateral energy co-operation, including the revival of the long-defunct Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline that once transported Iraqi crude to Europe via ...

On November 19, the Syrian Army and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) battled near Maadan, Syria. While the two factions ...

A UNHCR report released on Friday shows that the number of people seeking refugee status in industrialized countries continued to climb in the first half of 2014, driven by the wars in Syria and Iraq ...

British forces on Saturday joined their American allies in new attacks against militia in Yemen. The U.S. military earlier launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in western ...

The trip comes days before the anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and as Lebanon is navigating the cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel.

Iraq has become “an example and a model of elections,” the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) ...

This story was edited 11 October: number of Palestinians corrected from 24 to 19. GENEVA, October 7 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency said on Friday it was very concerned about the safety of Palestinian ...

Former President George W. Bush said "I refuse to be roped in" to the debate on Syria in an interview on Fox and Friends on Friday. Too late! Nearly every aspect of the Syria discussion — the strength ...

“My husband beats me every day, forces me to have sex with people in hotels and houses, and then brings me back home to do the same thing,” says Nada, a Syrian woman living in Iraq. “I have reached ...

Israel’s military says its troops entered an area in southern Syria to apprehend two suspected militants when they came under ...