Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing — thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony marking the first step toward the group’s promised disarmament. The move on ...

A group of 30 Kurdish fighters have ceremonially burned their weapons in northern Iraq, marking a major step toward ending a ...

Syria’s wildfires are the first major natural disaster since the country overthrew the al-Assad regime in December.

Iraq's Civil Defense is sending 20 specialized firefighting teams to Syria to help combat unprecedented wildfires raging in ...