BAGHDAD: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s surprise visit to Baghdad this month came after U.S. intelligence showed Iran-backed Shiite militias positioning...
AIN AL-ARAB, Syria: A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Ain al-Arab, a town besieged by Daesh (ISIS) for months, and...
AL-HAWL CAMP, Syria: Rawan Aboud tried to escape Daesh (ISIS) after the death of her abusive first husband, a militant killed fighting for the group. She was...
MOSUL, Iraq: The demolition of a wrecked building in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul where Daesh (ISIS) used to execute men they said were gay is already in...
AL-QAIM, Iraq: From a desert hillside guarded by Iraqi Shiite paramilitaries, commander Qassem Muslih can spot Daesh (ISIS) hideouts across the frontier in...
BAGHDAD: A growing rivalry between two powerful Shiite Muslim factions has paralyzed efforts to form a government in Iraq six months after an election aimed...
BAGHDAD: While Saudi Arabia courted Iraqi leaders behind closed doors over the weekend, its archfoe Iran made a more public showing by turning out at the...
CAIRO: Impoverished residents of redbrick homes on an island in the Nile look nervously across the river at another Cairo slum, bulldozed this summer into a...
BAGHDAD: Already pressured by the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal, Iran faces a major test in managing Shiite religious scholar Moqtada al-Sadr, a...
CAIRO: When Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman chose Egypt for his first official trip abroad since becoming crown prince, Cairo draped its streets with...
RAQQA, Syria: The morning after the defeat of Daesh (ISIS) in Raqqa, a local militia fighter stood in a square in the ruined, deserted city center. “There...
RAQQA, Syria/BEIRUT: Kurdish groups who led the fight against Daesh (ISIS) in its former capital Raqqa must navigate a complex peace to avoid ethnic tension...
RAQQA, Syria: Air raids by U.S. coalition warplanes have intensified in recent days as Kurdish and Arab militias seek to drive surrounded Daesh (ISIS)...
RAQQA, Syria: The ancient mud brick walls circling Raqqa’s deserted old city are almost the only structure still intact. Inside, shops and homes spill...
RAQQA, Syria: Raqqa’s hospital, a big complex riddled with bullet holes, whose capture will signal the end of Daesh’s (ISIS) crumbling Syrian capital, lies...
HAZIMA, Syria: The few bullet-marked schools Daesh (ISIS) did not flatten or booby trap around its former Syrian stronghold of Raqqa are buzzing for the first...
RAQQA, Syria: The inexperienced fighters in an Arab group battling to take Raqqa back from Daesh (ISIS) are playing a secondary role to hardened Kurdish...
BEIRUT: After fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad for six years, rebel soldier Abu Mohammed laid down his arms as part of a peace deal in his...
RAQQA, Syria: U.S.-backed forces now have Daesh (ISIS) fighters surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving...
DOHA: At a meat processing plant in Doha’s sprawling industrial zone, masked workers toil through the night heaving boxes of raw chicken across a pristine...
MOSUL, Iraq: For Iraqi police officer Jassem and his brothers, the battle against Daesh (ISIS) is personal. The militants captured and beheaded their father,...
MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD: Crouching in his Mosul home, Abu Ayman suddenly felt the ground rock as if struck by an earthquake when a massive explosion tore through...
MOSUL: Aid convoys linked to paramilitary groups have begun making regular deliveries to Mosul districts recaptured from Daesh (ISIS), bringing much-needed...
MOSUL/BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces battling Daesh (ISIS) in Mosul edged into the Old City and around the Al-Nouri Mosque Friday, trying to seal off a main road to...
BAGHDAD: Two days after Iraqi forces launched a new push against Daesh (ISIS) in Mosul, bomb blasts ripped through a marketplace in central Baghdad – the...