Large parts of Syria were once overrun by the terrorist group Islamic State. The country’s new government has just committed ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria says more schoolchildren have been abducted in the country’s volatile north.

Yet he has been successful in the area of the world that most befuddled previous presidents: the Middle East. This was ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani tells Newsweek his vision of making his country a global trade, investment and ...

A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and war crimes against the Yazidi people ...

Newsweek presents the full transcript of an exclusive interview with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.

A Syrian government official says Syria has joined a global coalition against the Islamic State, but that Syria has not joined of the U.S.

Pistol and other military equipment found in henhouse at home of one of the suspects, all of whom are in their 20s and live ...

Iraqis will elect a new parliament on November 11, in a key test for Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and for a system ...

Under the law, 25% of the country's 329 parliamentary seats must go to women, and nine seats are allocated for religious minorities. The position of speaker of Parliament is also assigned to a Sunni ...

Why the election in Iraq is so important and what is at stake - Iraqis are at the polls for a crucial, historical ...

Thomas Barrack said Lebanon was the only state in the region “not jumping in line” with the new Middle East realignments.