Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2026, pp. 13-14 Daily Life and Shattered Dreams in Gaza—Writers ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Baghdad on Saturday to mark the end of the political mission set up ...

US Central Command said two service members and a civilian were ambushed by a lone "Islamic State" gunman in central Syria.

It has been a banner year for the restoration of heritage in Mosul, a city rising from the ashes of war and still recovering from three years of occupation by Islamic State (Isis). When it was ...

Netflix's war film Mosul depicts the intense 2016 Battle of Mosul against ISIS in Iraq. Viewers praise the authentic Iraqi ...

Instead of relying on the usual Hollywood lens, the film places Iraqis front and centre, speaking their own language and fighting for their own city, bringing a perspective that Hollywood films often ...

Mohammad Marwan has been struggling to rebuild his life after being released from Syria’s Saydnaya prison a year ago.

Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency and rights but failed to prevent continued ...

The man who toppled Syria's Baathist regime has succeeded in breaking the country's international isolation. Yet the former ...

On Nov. 11, Iraq held its sixth parliamentary election of the post-Saddam era, and 7,743 candidates competed for 329 seats.

In the context of the wars in the Middle East, the Islamic state (IS) is one of the most controversial and feared organizations of the last twenty years. Founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2004, as ...