An Iraqi security official says a man wearing an explosive belt has blown himself up while security forces tried to arrest him in western Iraq near the Syrian border.

On the morning of May 25, 2006, I didn’t go out. Capt. Doug Dicenzo invited me to come along to meet some local Iraqi leaders ...

America’s Kurdish allies oversaw two dozen sites holding thousands of members of the terrorist group and their families. Their withdrawal has left the system in chaos.

Syrian government forces have taken control of a base in the east of the country that was run for years by U.S. troops as ...

Plus: Former Prince Andrew arrested and US braces for Iran strikes.

Iran temporarily shut parts of the Strait of Hormuz during live-fire drills as tensions with the US escalated alongside nuclear talks in Geneva. The rare move revived fears of disruption to global oil ...

One of the last cities ever founded by Alexander the Great, later dubbed Charax Spasinou, has finally been rediscovered.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who scrapped an earlier nuclear agreement with Iran during his first term, has repeatedly ...

Homelessness is a shifting set of responses to distance, scarcity, and history — shaped as much by geography as by policy.

In a draft policy document marked “Shadow Cabinet-in-Confidence”, the Coalition proposes amending the Migration Act 1958 to allow visa applications to be refused or suspended for people suspected of ...

On April 18, 1988, the U.S. Navy destroyed two Iranian oil platforms, sunk one frigate and a missile boat, crippled a second ...

Population growth on the North Carolina coast has ramped up pressure on conservation groups to acquire and set aside land, such as the more than 2,000 acres in coastal counties recently protected from ...