For Kurds, it was the nearest thing they had to a country. For idealistic foreigners, a noble experiment in socialism. For ...

Foreign women linked to the Islamic State group in a Syrian camp are hoping for amnesty after a government offensive weakened the Kurdish-led forces guarding them.

European Union states have agreed to blacklist a key arm of the Iranian regime as a terrorist organisation in response to the fierce crackdown on recent anti-government demonstrations in the country.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have announced a new agreement with Syria's central government to stabilize a ceasefire.

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed defiance Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to ...

Bethnal Green Academy is now the Mulberry Academy Shoreditch – better to be named after East London’s trendy tech hub than ...

Britain has quietly repatriated several Islamic state-linked women and children who were held in Syria, including some who ...

Shamima Begum, who left London at 15 to join ISIS and married Dutch-born Yago Riedijk, is being held in a Syrian detention camp where a former guard says she could potentially be released ...

Shamima Begum continues to be held at a detention camp for ISIS brides and their children as Syrian government forces push ...

Jihadists militias could take control of Shamima's camp in days and potentially set the former ISIS bride free.

A fragile ceasefire between Syria's government and Kurdish-led forces has temporarily eased tensions in the country's northeast.