Fire burns in the Ahlia area near the port town of Ierapetra on the south coast of Crete island, Greece, late Wednesday, July 2, 2025 ...

JAMES JEFFREY served as a Foreign Service Officer in seven U.S. administrations, including, during the first Trump ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in ...

The agreement is expected to ease tensions and advance a joint infrastructure project linking Iraq’s Faw port to Turkey.

The Iraqi government has launched what has come to be known as "recovery diplomacy" as part of its efforts to recover looted ...

No, this column is not asserting that Colin Powell, who stands as one of the worst mistakes of the Bush Republican era, has any relevance. Quite the contrary, but what I will argue here is that one of ...

President Donald Trump on Monday lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, signing an executive order to carry out a promise he made in May. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters ahead of ...

The Iraqi government has long navigated a path between maintaining political ties with its Iranian neighbor and Tehran’s allies inside Iraq on the one hand, and preserving its security relationship ...

The 12-day war between Israel and Iran could have serious implications across the Middle East, not least by exacerbating ...

Oil exports through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline were halted in Mar 2023, following a ruling by the International Chamber of ...

Security personnel were instructed this weekend to review and report back to the State Department on the security posture at US embassies and consulates across the region.