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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran is weaker now than it has been since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. In the so-called Axis of ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

Iraq’s foreign policy is based on dialogue and cooperation, not division. Promoting dialogue does not mean we are choosing ...

The official also said Tehran disagreed with "any displacement of Gazans, but Iran-U.S. talks are a separate matter", referring to Trump's remarks that the U.S. would take over war-ravaged Gaza ...

German theologian and journalist Matthias Kopp — spokesman for the German Bishops’ Conference and a consultant to the Vatican Dicastery for Communication — was in Iraq this past week to ...

On Oct. 26, Israeli war planes hit missile factories and other sites near Tehran and in western Iran, the Israeli military had said. This followed an Iranian attack on Israel on Oct. 1 involving ...

The government reportedly first penned the Theatre Iran Near Term (TIRANNT) scheme in 2003 during the Iraq War, according to the Daily Star. A report published by academics in 2007 theorised how ...

That raises the spectre once more of an escalating war across the Middle East. Iran's diplomats are sounding defiant. Attacking its nuclear facilities would be "crazy ", its foreign minister Abbas ...

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President Donald Trump urged Iran to begin negotiating with the U.S ... said they will not release hostages without an end to the war and Israeli forces’ full withdrawal. Anders Hagstrom ...