Iraq's Sunni Arabs, who turned out in larger numbers for a constitutional referendum after boycotting January's parliamentary vote, are now flexing their political muscles for the December 15 assembly ...

Türkiye is expanding its military zones in Iraq. Iraq has warned of Türkiye's unprecedented expansion of military bases, in ...

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the U.S. military’s representative to NATO, the latest to be fired in an ongoing purge of senior officers. Sen. Jack Reed, the senior Democrat on the Armed Services ...

The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it.” Second, I commanded one of the key initiatives that informed the WPS strategy and ...

At the start of April, Amina Ali finally went home. The 58-year-old and her husband returned to al-Maabatli, their town in ...

Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces described the attack as ‘one of the deadliest’ against it in a while.

The Islamic State militant group claimed an attack on Kurdish fighters in Deir el-Zor, Syria, expressing its persistent efforts to regain influence in the Middle East, West, and Asia. Known for ...

The Kurdish-led force that runs northeast Syria has agreed to integrate into a new national army, but some of its supporters ...

Israel's army has admitted its soldiers made mistakes over the killing of 15 emergency workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. The convoy of Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances ...

Nancy A. Youssef is a national security correspondent whose reporting has focused largely on the U.S. military and the Arab world.