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

A law has been passed in Iraq that would legalise the marriage of children as young as nine. Three divisive laws have now ...

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 ...

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says he has requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban ...

You’d be forgiven if, during the madcap weeks leading to Donald Trump’s inauguration, you’d lost track of what was happening ...

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 ...

In the Summer of 2014, when Islamic State (IS) forces conquered the northern Iraqi city ... Some even defended the right of British Muslims to fight against British forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, no ...

A new video released by Islamic State shows militants executing three Assyrian Christians ... and have origins in ancient Mesopotamia – a territory which spreads across northern Iraq, north-east Syria ...