The proposed U.S. ‘No Iranian Energy Act’ aims to end Iraq’s reliance on Iranian gas, threatening severe sanctions and permanently revoking waiver authority ...

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

Iraq’s buffalo population has more than halved in a decade as the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, suffer ...

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 ...

Laurence Norman - profile from The Wall Street Journal. News, articles, biography and photos.