We need a waiver, but we also need funding. Neither the waiver on its own nor the funding is going to let the work continue — ...

Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a ...

Congress had budgeted at least $690 million on pro-democracy programs this year to counter nations considered the world's ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Upholding security at the camp in Syria is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State, but contractors don ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Some of the hideouts where the militants were expelled include caves between Dharin and Qurac in Toga-Jaceel during the ...

Providing financial support and political power to terror-related groups without fundamental change in their nefarious educational messaging will not advance peace.

SDC maps path to decentralized future as Assad's fall creates delicate balance between Turkish threats and Islamist forces ...

Any withdrawal of US military forces and equipment from Syria by new US President Donald Trump would be a “nightmare” scenario and aid a resurgence of ISIS, the commander of a US-backed Syrian ...

We should all be concerned about the increasing evidence that ISIS – the terrorist group that was believed to be largely dead and buried in the dust of Syria after its putative caliphate was ...