Iran's Roads and Urban Development minister said the planned Kermanshah-Bisotun-Homeyl highway would be a "key part " of a future corridor to connect Iran and Syria via Iraq.

Sectarian clashes in southern Syria have created a fragile cease-fire and a potential opening for Tehran. With old proxy ...

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

The Iraq-Syria border is 600 km. long, and most of it consists of desert that is hard to secure and police. The main crossing for extremists who have flooded into Iraq in the past has been from ...

The Qaim border crossing, in Iraq’s Anbar province, opens into Bukamal in eastern Syria. Both towns were under Islamic State control until 2017, when the militants were run out of Qaim by Iraqi ...

A Quebec woman who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State and marry one of its fighters has pleaded guilty to one count of ...

Along Iraq-Syria Border, Two Key Crossings Fall To Insurgents Ned Parker, the Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters, speaks with Melissa Block about the ways in which the militant Islamic State of Iraq ...

However, by mid-2012, and especially in 2013, fighting intensified close to the factory, which sat near the strategic M4 ...

ANBAR (Reuters) -Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria for trade and passenger traffic, a spokesman for the Iraqi border authority said on Saturday, marking a key step ...

Iraq and Syria's foreign ministers discussed ways to help end drug trafficking across their joint border at a meeting in Baghdad on Sunday, Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said.

Like Iraq and Syria it is something of an ungovernable mess, and it is most famous for a single stage direction—“exit the stage chased by a bear.” The practical question for both the twilight months ...

The aftermath of the U.S. military strikes targeting sites in Syria and Iraq began coming into focus on Saturday morning as a Britain-based Syria monitoring group said that at least 18 members of ...