Despite fears of sectarian violence akin to Iraq's post-Saddam era, Syria has not seen widespread ... where a monument is decked with pictures of missing men, Qasan Hussein al-Dandah, a carpenter ...

Islamic Jihad and the flow of foreign fighters from Syria into Iraq after the 2003 US invasion. These tensions sparked the first massive wave of sanctions on Syria. Congress passed the ...

Delil Souleiman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The official ... self-declared caliphate that had seized large parts of Syria and Iraq. Kobani, a Kurdish-majority city in Syria.

Haunting pictures ... to eliminate Syria’s remaining chemical weapons, other actors in the country may not. The terrorist organization known as the Islamic State (or ISIS), which used crude and ...

As a young man, he fought American forces in Iraq, later returning ... France-Presse — Getty Images Israel carried out a heavy wave of airstrikes overnight on Syria’s coastal region, a war ...

Washington designated Sharaa a terrorist in 2013, saying al Qaeda in Iraq had tasked him with overthrowing Assad's rule and establishing Islamic sharia law in Syria. US officials said on Friday ...

Washington designated Sharaa a terrorist in 2013, saying al-Qaida in Iraq had tasked him with overthrowing Assad's rule and establishing Islamic law in Syria. U.S. officials said on Friday that ...

JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE: Southeast Asian authorities must be vigilant in the aftermath of rebel forces seizing control over Syria from ousted ... using images of suffering or oppression ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US has stepped up its battle against Isis in Syria as it seeks to prevent the group exploiting a power ...

It is true that he broke with al Qaeda in 2016, after a long career as a jihadist fighter in Iraq and Syria. But as I found ... But it's my personal freedom. I want photos taken for me the way ...

IS militants seized large parts of Iraq ... Syria, he said. “And as soon as that response is forthcoming, we will deploy.” A “monitoring cell” on the U.N.-backed team has collected recent ...