Patrick Dugan has been branded the “tough-on-crime” candidate, and is straight from central casting. But those close to him ...

Prison is not an easy place ... renaming his group The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. An ISIS fighter in Mosul, Iraq, in 2014. Pic: Reuters An ISIS fighter in Mosul, Iraq, in 2014.

When Helsinki-based writer Hassan Blasim follows the heated debated around migration, he is reminded of a journey he would ...

Jon Alterman: That's the infamous prison full of torture and death ... You find that same ability to deceive when he's picked up by the Americans in Iraq, when he's in Mosul, caught planting ...

(Photo: U.S. Marine Corps) OK, try and remember this isn't a movie script: A young woman born in a Siberian prison spends the ... grew up in Mosul, Iraq, and moved to the U.S. in May 2011.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation (MoRR) says two Afghan nationals have been released from a prison in Iraq's Basra city and have returned to the country. In a statement ...

Rapper Saman Yasin was imprisoned and says he was tortured for his involvement in anti-regime protests in Iran. Now, speaking ...

Although this custom has faded over the years, in Mosul, a young man is working to revive it by volunteering to walk through neighborhoods and waking residents each morning with his drum.

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...

November 3, 1918 – (IRAQ) With the discovery of oil in the Kurdish province of Mosul, British forces occupy the region. August 10, 1920 – (TURKEY) The Treaty of Sèvres outlines the ...