Jan 22 (Reuters) - Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council said on Thursday it would begin legal proceedings against Islamic State ...

A UN spokesman said conditions inside the camp remained "tense and volatile" after Kurdish-led forces withdrew.

The United Nations said on Thursday it was taking management responsibility for vast camps in Syria housing tens of thousands ...

The mother of a Canadian man detained in northeastern Syria says he risks going from “one legal black hole into another” as ...

Some 150 fighters were moved Wednesday, but thousands more could follow as tensions flare between the Syrian government and a ...

Iran's rulers have been shaken by mass protests with many calling for regime change. Is that realistic and what might that ...

Kurdish women fighting Isis were once feted in the US and UK media. But support for the Kurds of north and east Syria - now ...

The Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did not treat rebellion lightly. When the US, UK and other countries drove his troops out ...

ISIS prisoners escaped from a northeastern Syria prison and some remain unaccounted for after chaos made tracking impossible, ...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that Washington welcomed Iraq's initiative to detain Islamic State members in secure facilities in ...

The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The decision to move prisoners of the Islamic State group from northeast Syria to detention centers in Iraq ...