The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly ...

Syria’s tribes, sensing it was time to split from the Kurds and ally with Syria’s government, mobilised. That spelled the end ...

The rapid turn of events has brought almost all of Syria back under the authority of the central Damascus-based state ...

"You don't have a house here anymore. You need to leave." An Israeli soldier spoke those words to Leila E., a 54-year-old ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Long vilified for opposing independence and barred from electoral politics for over a decade, Bangladesh's biggest Islamist ...

Security at the biggest ISIS detention camp in Syria has collapsed as Syrian Kurds withdraw to face advancing government forces.

U.S. authorities have accused Hezbollah of complicity in drug trafficking and money laundering schemes in Venezuela.

For some Kurds, the wave of protests that began late last month has raised hopes that perhaps, after 47 years of rule, the ...

However, the SDF was led by the main Kurdish fighting force in Syria, the People’s Protection Units, known as the YPG. The ...