A woman walks past the former Russian Trade Mission in Washington, DC on November 14, 2025. In Washington's embassy district, years' worth of wildly overgrown vegetation outside ...

Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov has been released after being kidnapped and tortured by an Iraqi militia for ...

Asadi’s purported transformation epitomises the expansive ambitions of predominantly Shia armed groups known as the Popular ...

On November 11, Iraqis voted in the country’s sixth parliamentary election since 2006. More than 30 million people were ...

Kataeb Hezbollah originally kidnapped the researcher hoping to get ransom for her as a foreigner, she says, but started ...

Artists including Lorde, Björk and Massive Attack have joined an international initiative to geo-block their music from being ...

France will help Iraq build better medical centers as well as give aid to equip and train Iraqi security forces, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told Iraqi officials during a weekend visit.

Beijing provides a model for New Delhi. Through strict multi-faceted measures, including urban rail expansion, satellite ...

An academic kidnapped and held in Iraq for almost two years says she was whipped, beaten and electrocuted in a prolonged campaign of torture by her Iran-backed militant captors. Elizabeth Tsurkov, a ...