( New York Times )- He was the only man I saw when we entered the nearly empty village in northern Iraq, which had just recently been liberated from the Islamic State. The first thing he did when he approached our car was ask my colleague for a light. That’s when I noticed the pack of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Powerful Kurdish PYD militia has carried out major conscription campaign in Hasaka province as the U.S.-allied group is mobilizing troops to expel ISIS from last pockets in northern Syria, local activists said. Hundreds of young men have been transferring to conscription...

The gutting of US-funded climate science would cripple research agendas worldwide and hamper the global fight against climate change, say scientists outside the United States, some of whom will take to the streets Saturday to make that point. US President Donald Trump has called for drastic...

Iraq's Shiite ruling coalition would oppose Kurdish plans to hold a referendum on independence after the defeat of ISIS, its president, Ammar al-Hakim, has said. Speaking to Reuters in an interview in Cairo, Hakim advised the Kurds against any unilateral move to annex a disputed oil-rich...