For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017.

Several leaders of the Islamic Republic have recently come out in favor of negotiating with the US to have the sanctions on ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the ...

Read CNN’s Haditha Killings Fast Facts and learn more about the 2005 killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq.

Half a century after her death, Um Kalthoum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn cafes in Iraq, and in millions of homes from Morocco to Oman.

A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization, face ruin from ...

Maine artist Robert Shetterly's “Americans Who Tell the Truth" exhibit at the Albany Institute of History & Art celebrates ...

In 2nd Tour, Peter van Agtmael, 28, chronicles his tours as an embedded photographer with US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006 to 2008. He photographed night raids in Baghdad, war-torn ...

Under the terms of the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal , fighting will be halted in Gaza for at least six weeks. Dozens ...

A warning has gone out to seafarers in the Persian Gulf over what appear to be attempts by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to ...

The Army helicopter that collided with a passenger plane above the Potomac River boasted an experienced crew doing “an ...