At least five prisoners were killed and three prison employees injured in a riot triggered by an attempted escape at a prison ...

At least five prisoners were killed after launching an attack on guards in a Tajikistan prison. IS-affiliated inmates ...

Shortly after the 2003 invasion, the U.S. gutted Iraq’s entire civil service through the de-Baathification policy. Modeled after the denazification policy in post-war Germany, t ...

Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal ...

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM Allen Hoe showed soldiers a tattered old flag Wednesday that he and fellow ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

They don’t care how many civilians in Gaza died. They don’t even care about the 20,000 of their fighters who are dead. They don’t care about finding some long-term agreement with Israel. And they ...

EXCLUSIVE Armed men have been wearing emblems used by ISIS and there are reports of beheadings and executions of civilians.

The amendments to Iraq's personal status law allow clerics to rule on marriages based on their interpretation of Islamic law.

"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told Newsweek.