In 2014, the IS terrorist group took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, systematically destroying its many cultural ...

An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of ...

Trump — who has long railed against America’s “forever wars” — even suggested he would be open to deploying US troops to secure the area, saying he would “do what is necessary.” He said he saw the US ...

A UN project to rebuild some of Iraq’s most famous religious sites has restored cultural vitality and social fabric to the ...

Kash Patel, a 44-year-old lawyer and former federal prosecutor, has made history as the first Hindu Indian American nominated ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence cleared a key Senate committee ...

After 43 months without outside contact, jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has been allowed to meet with left-wing MPs.

One expert says her views are ‘so wildly fringe that her potential appointment as DNI is genuinely alarming’, Richard Hall ...

After years of destabilizing international and non-international armed conflict that has resulted in the loss of lives, destruction of ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

"We have a great obligation to protect the Christian populations of Syria, but also of the wider region," Dendias emphasised ...