In addition, a bank in Iraq and a number of individuals who support Iran should be sanctioned, they said, including “former prime ministers Nouri al-Maliki and Adel Abdulmehdi, Izzat Shabander ...

For example, in 2013 PKK declared a ceasefire in its war with Turkey and moved its remaining forces to northeastern Iraq. The ceasefire collapsed in mid-2015 and the Turks have been bombing PKK bases ...

(DAMASCUS, SYRIA) — He’s a former al-Qaeda insurgent who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Still, on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad ...

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a 38-year-old graduate student at Princeton University was kidnapped in 2023 while doing research in Iraq, and officials from several countries say progress is being made to ...

Sharaa has a long history with the U.S. and was even detained in the U.S.-run detention center Camp Bucca in Iraq in 2005. Sharaa joined the terrorist organization al Qaeda in Iraq in 2003 to ...

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Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was ...

Iranian-backed militias have carried out more than 100 attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria ... attack on U.S. forces at Al-Assad Air Base in western Iraq. Iranian-backed militias also carried ...

The PKK operates rear bases ... Iraq's Kurdistan and under the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria. Both areas have been embroiled in the PKK insurgency against the Turkish ...

A 38-year-old Middle East scholar from Israel was kidnapped in 2023 while doing research in Iraq, and officials from several countries say progress is being made to secure her release. The family ...