“This operation, assisted by Coalition forces, was part of continued efforts of SDF to deter Daesh (ISIS) resurgence and shut down their terrorist network.” The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested an Islamic State (ISIS) weapons and explosives facilitator in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor on Sunday night, the …

All is still not well in Iraqi politics some eighteen years after the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime. In 2019, a wave of popular protest known as the Tishreen movement swept across the country, as demonstrators called for fundamental reform of the post-2003 political system. Elections held in …

Thousands of mostly Middle Eastern migrants are camping out in the freezing cold, stranded on the Belarus border with Poland, and prevented from going any farther toward their goal – the European Union. Trapped between Polish soldiers guarding the border fence and Belarusian soldiers who will not let them turn …