Middle East

Ilham Ahmed, a senior Syrian Kurdish official and co-head of the Foreign Relations Department in the Democratic Autonomous Administration of...

Members of the all-woman Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ)/SDF during a raid at al-Hol camp in Hasaka, Syrian Kurdistan, (Rojava),...

Ahmed al-Sharaa—also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani and now Syria’s interim president—is pictured riding one of Bashar al-Assad’s prized horses...

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani (left) shakes hands with Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador...

A female Israeli hostage is dragged into a vehicle by Islamist Hamas militants in Gaza on October 7, 2023. Blood...

A composite image of General Mazloum Abdi (right), the commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces SDF, and Syria’s interim...

Abu Mohammad al-Golani, head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and former leader of the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, on February 7,...

The de facto Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masrour Barzani (right), with his son Areen, 2024. Photo: Barzani's Press Office...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, January 28, 2025. Photo: AP WASHINGTON,— U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, October 2024. Photo: Khamenei's page/via iKurd.net...