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An Iraqi Shiite fighter of the Hashed Al Shaabi paramilitary force stands guard at a border position. The group has said they are holding the US responsible for alleged attacks that targeted four training camps and arms depots. AFP

Pro-Iran paramilitary blame US for mysterious Iraq base attacks

August 22, 2019
The Atrush oilfield in Kurdistan, Iraq. The company last achieved a million barrels of monthly production in July. Courtesy: Taqa

Abu Dhabi's Taqa hits 1 million barrels a month production from Kurdish asset

August 21, 2019
Federica Mogherini with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran on July 28, 2015, a month a after the signing of the nuclear accord. AFP

Iranian tanker drama reveals flawed EU policy on Syria

August 19, 2019
Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces. The US backed group is dominated by the Kurdish YPG militia, which stands to lose significantly if a proposed safe zone in northeast Syria under negotiations between Washington and Ankara is realised . AFP

Syria’s social engineering experiment

August 18, 2019
Syrian civilians in Idlib who fled Russian and regime bombardment south of the governorate to areas considered relatively safer nearer to the Turkish border to the north. August 4, 2019. AFP

Syrian fighter pilot has fallen into hands of furious victims

August 15, 2019
A Syrian volunteer helps dig a trench in Salqin, a rebel town in the northern Idlib governorate threatened by the Russian-backed regime offensive June 23, 2019. REUTERS

Future of Syria on the table when Russia, Turkey and Iran meet

August 15, 2019
Ceylan was abducted by ISIL at the age of 12 and forcibly married to one of the militants. Lizzie Porter for The National

Ordeal continues for Shiite Turkmen women kidnapped by ISIS

August 12, 2019
Women and children evacuated from ISIS's embattled holdout of Baghouz arrive at a screening area held by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. AFP

ISIS vows more attacks on Syria's Kurds

August 12, 2019
The Hammar Mushrif degassing facility site inside Basra's Zubair field. Iraq, Opec's second largest producer has been looking to boost its export capacities. AFP PHOTO

Negotiations with Exxon for Basra mega-project still on, says Iraqi oil ministry

August 11, 2019
Nineveh police at a checkpoint. Florian Neuhof / The National

US service member killed in Iraq

August 10, 2019
A bearded man with Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's appearance speaks in this screen grab taken from video released on April 29, 2019. Reuters

Speculation mounts of a new ISIS leader in the making

August 8, 2019
US soldiers in the Syrian town of Ras Al Ain near the Turkish border July 28, 2019. The mixed town is part of large areas in eastern Syria captured by the Kurdish YPG militia, whose rule risks demise because of Washington's troop drawdown. AFP

Pentagon warning of a resurgent ISIS shows strategic shortcomings in Syria

August 7, 2019
Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, who is Shiite. AFP

Major initiative to solve Lebanon’s political crisis fails

August 6, 2019
Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi' as he purportedly appeared in a video released on April 29, 2019. The UN says Isis has been relying for months on attacks inspired by Isis ideology and carried out by its sympathisers rather than rank and file members of the weakened group.      

ISIS still has $300 million to use for terror attacks, UN says

August 6, 2019
James Jeffrey, the US envoy to the international coalition against ISIS, says the terror group presents a persistent threat despite losing all its territory. AP Photo

Iraq launches third phase of anti-ISIS military operation

August 5, 2019