Iraq’s parliament has passed three divisive laws including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage ...

The international community should focus on empowering Syria’s local civil society groups and advocating for women’s rights ...

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

While the wages of success in the region will be enormous, the consequences of failure will be utterly hellish.

Located in the Middle East, Jordan is close to several conflicts. With Syria to the North, Iraq to the East, Israel to the ...

Swedish prosecutors have requested the detention of a Swedish man on suspicion of war and terrorism crimes over the killing of a Jordanian air force pilot in Syria a decade ago, they said on Monday.

They are looking to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria: the fate of Kurdish forces that the U.S.

"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told ...

This will pause the fighting after 15 months of war and see the release of dozens of hostages held by the militants in the ...

Fighting between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and Turkish-backed Syrian National Army has been ongoing since ...

The two countries signed 20-year cooperation pact, but despite anti-US stance there are limits to their partnership.

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...