Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mourner attends the funeral of a commander from Iraq Iraq is at a turning point as militias begin procedures to disengage from ...

Baghdad: Iraq is stepping up its measures to impose state monopoly over weapons with some Shiite armed factions declaring that they were dismantling their military wings that have for years operated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah attend the funeral of their members, who were killed in an airstrike that ...

Whenever the Iran war comes to an end, the Islamic Republic is likely to emerge in a stronger position. Should the terms of a June memorandum of understanding be met, Western governments would lift ...

Members of the Syrian security forces pose with weapons confiscated on July 7. (Syria Ministry of Interior) On July 16, Syria’s Ministry of Interior announced that it had foiled an “attempt to smuggle ...

Here's a look at weapons inspections in Iraq from 1991 to 2007. Facts: At the end of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, the United Nations passed Security Council Resolution 687 setting the terms for the ...

Iranian-backed militias in Iraq have signaled that they may break away from the government-backed Popular Mobilization Forces and turn over some of their weapons to the state. There are many questions ...