Syria and Iraq are preparing to restart the Kirkuk–Baniyas oil pipeline, which runs from the Kirkuk fields in Iraq to the Mediterranean coast in Syria, after being inactive since 2003. The project is ...

BEIRUT (AP) — British forces on Saturday joined their American allies in new attacks against militia in Yemen. The U.S. military earlier launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed ...

Iraq is sending firefighters, water tankers and other equipment to help battle forest blazes in coastal Syria, as a multinational effort to extinguish the flames enters a ninth day. Already crews from ...

The al-Nusrah Front was removed from the U.S. terror list on July 7, 2025. Officially, it marked a shift. But under the surface, it looked a lot more like a pattern ...

Syria has sent 3,000 troops to the border with Iraq to deter infiltration by pro-Iran Iraqi militias, two security officials in Damascus have told The National. The deployment is the first in the area ...

Trump asked Syria's new Islamist leader to help prevent IS resurgence IS activating sleeper cells, planning attacks in Syria and Iraq, security sources say So far, effects appear limited; security ...

Pinar Dinc is the principal investigator of the ECO-Syria project, which receives funding from the Strategic Research Area: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) at the Centre for Advanced ...

BAGHDAD — The prime minister of Iraq has kept his country on the sidelines as military conflicts raged nearby for almost two years. This required balancing Iraq's relations with two countries vital to ...