For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Upholding security at the camp is seen as critical to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State. A contractor that trains the ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

Forces from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region have captured swathes of territory from Islamic State during a ...

By Johan Ahlander OREBRO, Sweden (Reuters) - Ten years ago Salim Iskef, 29, fled the Islamic State and Syria to form a better ...

Niger’s ruling military junta says that an ambush by a “group of criminals” killed at least 10 Nigerien soldiers near the ...

Officials scrutinized security plans for Super Bowl LIX after a deadly New Year’s Day terrorist attack on Bourbon Street ...

Labor organizations have sued the federal government on behalf of foreign service workers over the gutting of USAID.

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Of Mecca and Mammon” ...