Iraq's former PM who helped fuel ISIS makes unlikely comeback

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 future of Syria’s Kurds hang in the balance

The Syrian government under President Ahmad al Sharaa has moved to reassert control over Kurdish-held territories in the ...
Syria Direct

‘They left overnight’: Along the Euphrates, SDF withdrawal marks a turning point

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

Syrian forces advance deeper into the U.S.‑backed, Kurdish‑controlled northeast

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

Syria’s military has seized swaths of Kurdish-held territory. Here’s what we know.

In the space of two days, the Syrian military, aided by tribal militia, has driven Kurdish forces from wide swathes of northern Syria that they have held for more than a decade.

Syrian government seizes strategic town in Raqqa from Kurdish forces

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

Syrian forces seize major oil, gas fields in eastern Syria, security sources say

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

Farmers struggle as drought hits their lands hard in Iraq

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

Grappling with its worst drought in a century, Iraq bets on a controversial oil-for-water deal

(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 ...