A series of rocket and drone attacks from Iranian-backed proxies in Syria and Iraq have demonstrated how violence in Gaza threatens to tip into conflict elsewhere. In all, there have been at least ...

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

Iraq weighs intervention amid Sunni rebel push in Syria Baghdad distrusts rebels' claims of no ambitions in Iraq Iraqi factions divided on potential intervention in Syria BEIRUT, Dec 6 (Reuters ...

PKK spokespeople in Iraq and Syria had different reactions to Ocalan's call. Kurds in Iraq. Analysts widely agree that the PKK headquarters in northern Iraq will most likely follow Ocalan's call.

The U.S. military has launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in western Iraq and eastern Syria in retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in late January that killed th… ...

A U.S. warship operating near Yemen and two military bases in the Middle East came under drone attack this week, U.S. defense officials said, in what may have been targeted attacks on the U.S. in ...

BAGHDAD - The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iraq will not act as a mere spectator in Syria where it believes groups and sects are victims of ethnic cleansing, Iraq's prime minister said on Tuesday, according to a readout ...

Iraq's National Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji has said his country stands by its neighbor Syria in its security, stability, and unity among its people. Al-Araji's remarks came late Sunday ...

Turkey's armed forces have conducted several large-scale military operations over the decades in northern Iraq and northern Syria against Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, the Islamic State and the ...

The U.S. military has launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in western Iraq and eastern Syria in retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in late January that killed ...

U.S. bases in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour and the northeastern province of Hassakeh have come under attack for years. The Euphrates River cuts through Syria into Iraq, with U.S ...