BAGHDAD: Every evening at the Muntada al-Masrah theater on Baghdad’s Rashid Street, the cast and crew of the first TV drama filmed in Iraq in seven years take...
DAHUK, Iraq: Baseh Hammo was 38 when she was enslaved by Daesh (ISIS) militants. Raped and abused, she was sold 17 times among members of the so-called...
GERSHIN, Iraq: A group of Yazidi women and children reunited with their families in Iraq Saturday after five years of captivity at the hands of Daesh (ISIS),...
BAGHDAD: Daesh (ISIS) militants facing defeat in Syria are slipping across the border into Iraq, where they are destabilizing the country’s fragile security,...
BAGHDAD: Iraq Monday mourned the loss of Lamia al-Gailani, a beloved archaeologist who helped rebuild the Baghdad museum after it was looted following the...
BZEIBIZ, Iraq: It was a cold and gusty day in December when the army came to the Bzeibiz camp and told families displaced by the war against Daesh (ISIS) that...
QAIM, Iraq: More than a year after the Iraqi town of Qaim was freed from Daesh (ISIS), booms from airstrikes still echo and columns of smoke rise beyond the...
BAGHDAD: At this year's Baghdad International Fair, Iranian businessmen displayed thick, colorful Persian rugs to impressed onlookers while others showcased...
KARBALA, Iraq: Millions of Shiites from around the world are making their way this week to their sect’s holy shrines in the Iraqi city of Karbala, a...
BAGHDAD: Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers...
BEIRUT: Lebanon has for decades struggled with daily power cuts that leave residents sweating through their shirts, summer after sticky summer. The bankrupt...
MISHKHAB, Iraq: Iraq has banned its farmers from planting summer crops this year as the country grapples with a crippling water shortage that shows few signs...
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Moqtada al-Sadr, the maverick Shiite religious scholar whose political coalition beat out Iran’s favored candidates to come in first in...
BEIRUT: With campaigning in full swing for Lebanon’s first national election in nine years, Parliament candidate Laury Haytayan was trying to rope in...
BEIRUT: Turkey’s war on a Syrian Kurdish militia that is closely aligned with the United States is forcing the group to give up positions against Daesh...
BEIRUT: In demonstrations across Iran, chants are going up against the military’s vast and shadowy war in Syria, one of Tehran’s closest allies...
BEIRUT: At the doors of the Syrian capital, children with wrinkled faces and arms like sticks are going hungry because President Bashar Assad’s forces,...
IRBIL, Iraq: Just a month ago, Iraq’s Kurds were celebrating their symbolic vote for independence as a historic step toward their decades-old dream of...
BEIRUT: As Damascus reverses military losses in much of the country’s strategically important west, and foreign states cut support for rebel forces,...
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: The port of Tripoli in Lebanon wants the world to know it’s ready for business. British safety managers are training local hires to...
BEIRUT: A Palestinian-Syrian software pioneer has been executed in prison after being arrested five years ago by Syrian authorities in Damascus, his widow and...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels and activists are warning that an Al-Qaeda-linked militant group is on the verge of snuffing out what remains of the country’s uprising...
BEIRUT: In a city full of hair stylists, Muhannad Khaled Omar stands out. Omar, 26, is a Palestinian-Syrian stylist known for shaving celebrity portraits into...
BEIRUT: They left their homes to escape the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and now they are going back. Worn out from months of living in tents,...
BEIRUT: Beirut’s landmark Hamra Street is bustling again and hotel occupancy rates are on the rise as Lebanon’s tourism industry rebounds, thanks...