Veterans return home with lung disease at higher rates than civilians. But they’re having a tougher time getting recognized and compensated by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

When grad students were asked to collect floor plans for buildings in Baghdad in the fall of 1990, were they helping to preserve Iraqi culture—or to find targets for smart bombs?

Family threats, militia murders, persecution, and fear: The first ever study of its kind by advocacy group IraQueer reveals a heart-wrenching portrait of LGBT life in Iraq.

A judge will consider an emergency motion Monday in the latest twist to ICE’s attempt to deport 1,400 Iraqis, many of them Chaldean Christians who fear torture in their homeland.

From a daredevil raccoon on the hunt for salvation to the North Korea summit. The Daily Beast brings you the most insane photos of the week.

The unnamed person’s attorneys, who are scheduled to fight his detention in court later this month, call the potential release a ‘death warrant.’

The scars of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war have never been forgotten or forgiven by Iran’s hardliners. Their righteous ‘resistance’ has become their raison d’être.