Engineers cleared the Black Hawk Bridge for commuters after concerns over structural integrity. Future closures planned for summer construction.

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When the dust settled, the March massacre claimed the lives of at least 1,700 Alawites. Ziad, currently in Lebanon and ...

The World Bank has approved $930 million in funding to develop railways in Iraq, which will include one of the region’s longest rail lines. The Bank said its board of directors approved the ...

U.S. officials say Operation Midnight Hammer was characterized by a "precision strike" that "devastated the Iranian nuclear ...

Damascus, SANA-The first group of Syrian pilgrims arrived on Monday through Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey, following the adoption of an emergency plan to alter their return route by ...

Fears are mounting that Islamic State fighters are regrouping in Syria and Iraq, exploiting security gaps to revive operations and launch attacks. Intelligence and military sources are concerned the ...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Sunday that they targeted central Israel's Jaffa with several ballistic missiles in the ...

BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria for trade and passenger traffic, a spokesman for the Iraqi border authority said on Saturday, marking a key step ...

“The Qaim crossing is now fully operational for both cargo trucks and civilian movement,” the spokesman told Reuters, adding that the reopening followed joint security assessments by Iraqi and Syrian ...

World Iraq reopens Syria crossing for trade and passenger traffic The move comes three months after Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani visited Baghdad and urged Iraq to resume cross-border trade ...