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 ...

Rukaya al-Zubaidi placed a cautious foot on a skateboard and then struggled to find her balance as others glided back and ...

Trump says the destruction in Gaza means “no one can live there.” But experts say  the enclave can be rebuilt without the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Testimony’s ambitious sister. That’s what the late South African Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu ...

Upholding security at the camp is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State. A contractor that trains the ...

Following two years that saw little help from Washington, there is now a 'refreshing change in tone,' her sister, Emma, tells ...

Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court on Wednesday defended its authority, stating that the Iraqi constitution stipulates that its ...

The IS fighters were not deterred by UNESCO World Heritage status and destroyed ancient cities such as Hatra and Nineveh.

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

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

Here’s what truly fresh thinking would look like instead.