ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An estimated 2,000 Islamic State (ISIS) militants remain active in Syria’s vast desert regions, a ...

Christians in Nigeria and Syria were hit with exceptionally brutal jihadi attacks on two consecutive weekends this month.

MIDDLE Eastern leaders and their Western allies have long warned that Islamic State (IS) could exploit the fall of the Assad ...

Human Rights First (HRF) travelled to northeastern Syria to meet with human rights defenders as the country goes through a massive transition following the December 2024 overthrow of the Assad ...

The treaty, signed by representatives of 120 countries, was widely celebrated as a monumental achievement. That year, the ...

A Yazidi man abducted at age 7 by ISIS in 2014 has been rescued near Raqqa after 11 years. The KRG says 3,589 Yazidis have ...

Months after dictator Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, the country’s Kurdish population faces continued uncertainty — and Turkish ...

A committee tasked with electing Syria’s new parliament expects the vote will take place in August, a Kurdish member of the ...

Politicians and the public are convinced that spending more money on weaponry automatically raises an army’s effectiveness on the battlefield ...

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A Syrian migrant accused of stabbing four people outside a bar in the German city of Bielefeld was a member of the Islamic State group, prosecutors ...

Mahmoud M., 35, was allegedly a Raqqa-area operative for the terror group until 2016; authorities say he stabbed four people ...