Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the ...

Canada’s highest court will decide whether a law that Quebec enacted in 2019, barring public-sector workers from wearing ...

In one of its final moves in office, the Biden administration is trying to secure U.S. influence over Rojava, the Kurdish-led ...

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 passes bill that critics say legalises child marriage - Activists argue the new laws will erode safeguards for women ...

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

The new Syrian regime can only be trusted if it concedes meaningful decentralization to the country’s minority groups.

Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws ... conducted an operation following intelligence reports of the Islamic State group’s activity and an ammunition cache in the area.

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, ...

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 ...