Welcome to today’s coverage from West Asia, where diplomacy, security and public sentiment are colliding across the region.

Iraq's stunning marshlands are believed to be the location of the biblical Garden of Eden, in ancient Mesopotamia. They were ...

No information was immediately available about the exact nature of the terrorist threat or who specifically might be targeted ...

The prime minister of Iraq has kept his country on the sidelines as military conflicts raged nearby for almost two years.

A U.S. Army sergeant shot and wounded five soldiers with a personal handgun on Wednesday at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield ...

An active-duty Army sergeant was taken into custody Wednesday on suspicion of opening fire at his workplace on the sprawling ...

Eight jets, one nuclear target, and zero room for error. Israel’s preemptive strike on Iraq’s Osirak reactor was one of the ...

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Many are women and people of color with long careers under both Republican and Democratic administrations. Most have little or no public profile and have spent their careers in behind-the-scenes ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- The United States repatriated an American child separated from their family from a sprawling camp in ...

DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?