"History isn’t repeating itself, but it’s rhyming," Alia Shawkat told Newsweek while talking about her new movie, Atropia.

The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS ...

Local organisations deliver most social assistance in KRI and Iraq, yet remain excluded from reform. New research highlights legal gaps and paths for change.

Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of the Greater Caucasus mountain belt, which also stretches along Russia's border ...

(Abuja, FCT, Nigeria) From Kogi’s riverbank villages through Benue-Plateau rivers to Kaduna and Kebbi’s wheat fields, Fulani Ethnic Militia attacks are shifting, deadlier, and increasingly coordinated ...

Iraqi officials have retracted a decision to label Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels as terrorist organizations.

"Most Iraqis regard elections as a foregone formality and the reigning order as irredeemably flawed," writes Nabil Salih ...

Iraqi Kurdistan-based General Yazdanpanah says calls for “decentralization are meaningless, as they will not ensure Kurdish ...

Dragan Covic needed seven days to give up on the Constitution and return to the old pattern of dividing Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Covic’s latest turn looks like this: on November 14th, after an ...

The Iraqi parliamentary election of 11 November 2025 was not a moment for democratic renewal; rather, it was more of a managed, institutionalised ritual that re-entrenched the dominance of established ...

Iraq were handed a challenging draw in the Fifa World Cup intercontinental playoffs, requiring to beat Bolivia or Suriname in a one-off match next March to qualify for the finals in North America.

Last-minute penalty ends UAE's 2026 World Cup dreams Dubai: UAE’s 2026 World Cup dream has ended in heartbreaking fashion after Iraq scored a late penalty in Basra to book their place in the playoffs.