Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

ISIS militants began a full-scale attack in northern and western Iraq in June 2014, taking control of vast areas of land, ...

Facing recurrent cycles of terror-violence in a “state of nature,” [1] Israel must defend itself in both law [2] and strategy ...

The important word in the acronym “TOC” is operations. It's why all the care was taken to keep things secret. You don't want ...

Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Academy Award-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was detained by the Israel ...

Battle of Mosul would have been unrecognizable to Henri Dunant, the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Black Hawk Down is a 2001 war movie directed by Ridley Scott set during 1993's Battle of Modadishu, one of the largest ...

As Kurds themselves face persecution from both Turkey and Iran, their violence against Assyrians has only intensified through ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

Mosul’s Old City, once a battleground, is now home to a breathtaking work of art: two majestic alabaster gates adorned with ...

Little by little, plans are leaking out regarding the imminent battle to remove so-called Islamic State (IS) from Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. Michael Fallon, the UK defence secretary ...