The appointment accompanies a major relocation of US military equipment and vehicles from Ain al-Asad and Victory bases to ...

Pullout of US troops signals Trump administration is pressing ahead with plans to reduce troops in region of key competition ...

Kurdish Peshmergas backed by U.S. air strikes launched a major operation to retake control of Iraq's largest dam in Mosul from Islamic State militants.

They will be based around the country. Britain says the troops will remain on their bases and the U.K. will not send combat troops to Iraq, where 179 British personnel died between 2003 and 2009.

The push to recruit ethnic and religious minorities comes as the government in Damascus faces increased scrutiny after ...

Fierce overnight clashes have erupted once again in Syria’s volatile Deir ez-Zor region, as Syrian Army forces launched a surprise ambush on U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The dramatic ...

Post-2017 referendum fears of Kurdish independence, Ankara’s insistence on “full usage” of the ITP, and Baghdad’s push for a ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Sunday that Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel fighter allies have seized control of the town center of Afrin from Kurdish YPG fighters.

Syria's first parliamentary election under its new Islamist administration, scheduled for September, will not include the ...

Kurdish troops, known as the Peshmerga, abandoned the town to the Popular Mobilization Forces, an Iran -backed and predominantly Shia militia coalition that operates as part of the Iraqi security ...