Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the ...

The Iraqi parliament has passed an amnesty law that could lead to the release of thousands of prisoners, including Iraqis convicted of attacks on U.S. soldiers and people who fought for Islamic State, ...

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

Iraq passes bill that critics say legalises child marriage - Activists argue the new laws will erode safeguards for women ...

Iraq's parliament has passed a controversial law which would allow for the legalisation of girls as young as nine to be ...

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

Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws ... conducted an operation following intelligence reports of the Islamic State group’s activity and an ammunition cache in the area.

Syria, a country in Southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, was deeply affected by the Arab Spring protests that swept through many nations in the Middle East and North Africa in ...

This course will provide an in-depth overview into the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as the Islamic State, the Arabic acronym Daesh, the Islamic State ...

But from Iraq to Morocco something much more colonial and invasive ... al-Banna saw as a regression to the ‘Jahaliyya,’ i.e. the ‘Ignorance’ of the pre-Islamic Arab world. He sought a long-term, multi ...

Protesters gather to demonstrate against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 8 ... an operation following intelligence reports of the Islamic ...