Iraqi army commanders visit by helicopter a military base near a border crossing with Syria at Al-Qaim ANBAR (Reuters) -Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria for trade and passenger traffic, a spokesman for the Iraqi border ...

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their family members.

The December 2024 fall of the Bashar al-Assad government marks a historic turning point for Syria, and after decades of atrocities, potentially for justice. Despite extensive information and evidence of serious crimes,

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 ...

ISTANBUL — Turkey, the United States, Syria and Iraq have formed a working group to try to resolve the issue of Islamic State prisoners in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in comments published Thursday. The Kurdish-led Syrian ...

Because you want to understand, but it can be really complicated. June 13, 2014— -- An Extremist Group Called ISIS Took Over Multiple Cities in Iraq Background: When the U.S. left Iraq, it was a country with a democratically-elected government and a U ...