The Islamic State’s (ISIS) second-in-command globally and the group’s top man in Iraq and Syria was killed on Friday in an ...

Islamic State leader Abu Khadija held the position of the so-called governor of Iraq and Syria and was also the head of its ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

The retired 76-year-old professor of political science was already serving an 18-month sentence for criticizing the Iranian ...

A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...

British authorities have arrested the captain of a cargo ship as they investigate the cause of a fatal crash between the ...

Iraq’s semi-autonomous north is grappling with a severe economic crisis, with many residents forced into massive personal debt.

In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government ...