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

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 ...

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 ...