The blowback against Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence referendum was swift as it was fierce, with every neighboring state piling pressure on Irbil to back down.

Daesh’s wanton destruction of cultural relics helped fray the national fabric of countries like Syria and Iraq. It’s now up to the international community to help mend them.

With the oil-rich city of Kirkuk under its control, the government of Iraqi Kurdistan is moving toward formal independence from Iraq.

Good news from Mosul, bad news from Afghanistan, and President Trump angers Turkey by arming Syria’s Kurds.

Brexit begins, the Iraqi army makes slow steady in Mosul, and China looks to turn up the heat on Taiwan.

Faced with spreading conflict and instability throughout the world, who will lead?

Security services should prepare for the possibility that the fall of Mosul will trigger terrorist attacks in Western countries.

Iraqi and Kurdish forces have launched an assault on the last major urban holding of Islamic State in Iraq.

FARC peace deal suffers a shock defeat at the ballot box, Kunduz under siege again, and the Iraqi government prepares to attack Mosul.