When the campaign ended in 1989, 90 percent of Kurdish villages had been wiped off the map ... region, which sits on an estimated 45 billion barrels of oil — the world's sixth-largest reserve ...

Syria and Jordan will set up a joint committee to secure their mutual border following talks between the countries' top ...

The relief and joy over the fall of Assad ... it can countenance for those in Syria. To be sure, Iraq now has a semiautonomous Kurdish region, and Ankara has not only made its peace with that ...

But a senior American official in the region said Wednesday that the ... caliphate that had seized large parts of Syria and Iraq. Kobani, a Kurdish-majority city in Syria. Turkish-backed fighters ...

While the main opposition forces have seized Damascus, the rest of Syria is under the control of numerous other factions.

Syria and Jordan will set up a joint committee to secure their mutual border following talks between the countries' top diplomats on Tuesday.

However, with Assad’s power diminished and now residing in Russia, the dynamics in the region are ... create a unified Kurdistan, incorporating territories from Turkey, Iraq, and Syria.

Forces from Syria’s Kurdish ethnic minority ... amid wider instability in the region. The Pentagon warned in July that Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq were on track to double compared ...

Russian and Iranian influence in the region is diminished. But without a clear road map, a Libya or ... also pose threats to Iraq's security, both in terms of the Kurdish region and from the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Friday ... goal’ in Syria is to eliminate a US-backed Kurdish militia ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s Foreign Minister ...

Elsewhere in the region, Israel launched heavy ... so that people can finally have relief in Gaza.” Nearly 2,000 Syrian soldiers return from Iraq under a new amnesty program BEIRUT — Nearly ...