( Al-Monitor )- Congress is threatening to cut funding for Iraq’s vaunted Kurdish peshmerga fighters if the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ends up splitting with Baghdad. The House Armed Services Committee released a draft annual defense bill this week that makes continued funding for...

More than 16 years into the Afghanistan war, the United States and its NATO allies wrangled anew on Thursday over how to meet the need for more troops to counter the resurgent Taliban and help the Afghan forces break a stalemate in the fight. At a meeting in Brussels, NATO agreed to send...

United States-backed forces cut off the last escape route for Daesh (ISIS) from Raqqa on Thursday, a monitor said, trapping the besieged extremist inside their de facto Syrian capital.  Fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces captured two villages on the southern bank of the...

President Donald Trump's temporary ban on people from six predominantly Muslim countries and all refugees entering the United States is finally scheduled to take effect later on Thursday, but in a scaled-back form that still allows in some travelers. The rollout of the controversial measure...