For Kurds, it was the nearest thing they had to a country. For idealistic foreigners, a noble experiment in socialism. For ...

By bna Cairo bureau Iraq ranks as the fifth most affected country globally by climate change, with rising temperatures, ...

In this Stars and Stripes photo, Marine cruise the Euphrates River at sunrise hunting for insurgents who use the river to ferry arms.

Iraq is facing an existential crisis rooted in vanishing rivers, outdated infrastructure, and unchecked population growth. The Euphrates and Tigris, once the foundation of Mesopotamian civilization, ...

Nouri al-Maliki let ISIS take over a third of Iraq in 2014. He spent years in the political wilderness, but now he is angling ...

The SDF’s sudden withdrawal has ushered in a new reality for Syrians in Deir e-Zor and Raqqa, where many are optimistic ...

Washington is caught between preventing a collapse of its Kurdish partners’ self-ruling enclave and supporting the Syrian ...

Syrian government forces have entered Raqqa as part of their ongoing push against Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria ...

Syrian troops fighting U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces seized the Omar oil field, the country’s largest, and the Conoco gas ...

Rainfall in Iraq has given farmers brief relief from drought conditions they have been battling.But they warn that much more ...

(CNN) — Iraq, the historic “land between two rivers,” faces a crisis striking at its identity as the Tigris and Euphrates shrink dramatically amid severe drought and the increasing toll of upstream ...