Recall the image etched in memory: a bulldozer driven by fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State smashing through the ...

Kurdistan marked 11 years since the martyrdom of Peshmerga Hujam Surchi, publically executed by ISIS in 2015. His resilience ...

The last time Nuri al-Maliki was in power, corruption, mismanagement, extremism, and Iran ruled the roost in Iraq.

How disproportionate media attention and a misleading conflict frame turn Israel into a moral symbol while eclipsing far deadlier wars ...

More than 4,500 years ago, in one of humanity’s earliest civilizations, gender-diverse individuals held respected and ...

New research suggests a long-overlooked bas-relief in King Sennacherib’s palace in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, destroyed with ...

In January 2023, the German parliament formally recognised Yazidi genocide. Yet, the recognition remains largely symbolic and ...

A team of scientists have shared a complete model of a hidden megastructure deep below Egypt's Giza pyramids, which they suggested was built by a lost civilization.

The Islamic State (ISIS) remains a serious and ongoing threat to stability in Iraq, Syria and the wider region, though it is ...

When Iraq was invading Kuwait in 1990 a British Airways plane flew straight into the turmoil. Now its passengers might finally learn why ...

After Syrian forces on Wednesday seized Kurdish strongholds in the northeast of the country, the Syrian government gave ...

Israel’s media ban fails on all three counts. The government has refused to articulate what concrete conditions would justify lifting the restriction, how often the policy is reassessed, or why less ...