Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, ...

When the Islamic State (IS) group overran large parts of Iraq and Syria, thousands of civilians were taken captive. Women, children and men suddenly found themselves at the mercy of one of the ...

2025 was — and is still — supposed to be the year that the movies came roaring back from the various impediments that have ...

Ernie Hayden’s first experience with a camera came at the age of 12 on a military base on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall ...

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But with recent conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan now firmly in the spotlight, contemporary film-makers and directors have seized the day when it comes to depicting life in these warzones.

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The past few decades in Iran have been a natural experiment in the effect of economic sanctions. Iran has more of a market ...

Her transition from naive country girl to literary force of nature and the toast of early ... s manipulation of evidence in the run-up to the Iraq War, in Gavin Hood’s heart-pumping procedural.

Iraq’s air force also frequently carries out airstrikes against ISIS hideouts in the disputed territories. In late February, the head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell told Rudaw that Iraqi ...

In Kaveh Akbar’s haunting poem “ Orchids Are Sprouting from the Floorboards,” the flower becomes a personified presence, ...