The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...

Syria's interim president urges international pressure on Israel, discusses security threats with Turkey's president in ...

Either maintaining Russia’s military bases in Syria or finding an alternative outpost in the Mediterranean will prove ...

At least five prisoners were killed after launching an attack on guards in a Tajikistan prison. IS-affiliated inmates ...

Syria’s new interim leader, meeting on Tuesday with the president of Turkey, thanked him for backing the rebel forces that ...

Every war has its battles for the cities and in 2003 as US forces, aided predominantly by the United Kingdom, invaded Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, planners in Washington knew that at some point their troops ...

Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal ...

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Allen Hoe showed soldiers a tattered old flag Wednesday that he and fellow ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

They don’t care how many civilians in Gaza died. They don’t even care about the 20,000 of their fighters who are dead. They don’t care about finding some long-term agreement with Israel. And they ...

EXCLUSIVE Armed men have been wearing emblems used by ISIS and there are reports of beheadings and executions of civilians.