The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

Iraq's buffalo population has dramatically decreased due to severe droughts affecting the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, endangering the livelihoods of many farmers. Factors such as climate change, ...

Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.

With US withdrawal looming, both powers are testing a fragile detente with competing visions of Damascus's future ...