BBC World Service investigation reveals Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq, where a vast area is known to locals as ...

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an in ...

The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

Assad's fall, Turkey and Israel are both operating in Syria with starkly opposing agendas, stoking fears of a confrontation ...

Ankara’s decades-long resistance to Kurdish autonomy is being tested as Syrian Democratic Forces seem to be insisting on ...

The US Deputy State Department Spokesperson also addressed the ongoing suspension of oil exports from the Kurdistan Region, underlining Washington’s support for restarting the Iraq-Turkey pipeline.

Iraq had the largest healthcare budget in the Middle East and was the region’s leading pharmaceutical market, larger even than Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt,” he says. “Since then ...

The Israeli military carried out an airstrike on Yemen's main airport in Sanaa on Tuesday, its second attack in two days on Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, after the group launched a missile attack ...