Syria’s new ruling authorities have begun co-ordinating with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who control the ...

At the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or ...

In 2014, IS declared a caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria and attracted tens of thousands of supporters from around the world. The extremists were defeated by a U.S.-led coalition in Iraq in ...

A veteran of reporting in the Middle East, Margaret Coker traveled across the Arab world and wrote about politics, civil unrest and economics. She specialized in financial corruption and internet ...