A provincial governor wants to prohibit women in government and public sector jobs from wearing makeup, stirring outrage and ...

The future is uncertain for Syrian Kurd's all-women fighting units, known as the Women's Protection Units (YPJ). Last month the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) they are a part of made a ...

After holding a large swathe of autonomous territory that included two detention camps, Kurdish-led forces are now reluctantly handing over control to Syrian government forces, following their ...

Buried in the fine print of Anthony Albanese’s harsh words is a caveat: almost all of these people are entitled by law to ...

Syria ISIS camp security has collapsed, unraveling a years-long containment strategy and triggering the mass dispersal of thousands from detention facilities like Al-Hol ...

Mike Pezzullo says there are at least two discretionary mechanisms available to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to delay the return of so-called ISIS brides to Australia, even if the government is ...

The government faces the vexed challenge of trying to integrate back into society those with no affiliation to ISIS - while containing others who remain a security threat ...

The Trump administration has informed Congress that it intends to proceed with planning for a potential re-opening of the U.S ...

Officials say that a camp in northeastern Syria that had housed families of suspected members of the Islamic State group is now largely empty after hundreds of women and children were repatriated to ...