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 ...

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or the “Organization for the Liberation of the Levant”) traces its beginnings to the ... even after al-Qaeda’s highly publicized split with the Islamic State, whose leader, ...

Israel-Hamas war has profoundly altered the Middle East’s geopolitical landscape. Iran and Russia, once dominant forces, have ...

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 ...