It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a full-scale invasion of Iran. What followed was eight years of tank battles, trench ...

On March 20, 2003, the United States led a coalition to invade Iraq (herein Iraq II). Iraq I had occurred as a result of an ...

It has been well known that Hezbollah received support from Iran’s regime; however, Hezbollah’s links to Iranian-backed ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The parliamentary speakers of Iraq and Iran met in Tehran on Monday ... especially the consequences of the Gaza war, and developments in Syria were discussed,” Iraqi ...

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 ...

According to Iran's Ministry of Energy, Abbas Aliabadi, Iran’s Minister of Energy, and Ziad Ali Fadhil, Iraq’s Minister of Electricity and Energy, held discussions on the sidelines of a cabinet ...

The push comes with a backdrop of seismic shifts in the Middle East that have seen ... Shia-majority Iraq from Syria after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, fueling years of sectarian war.

With Iranian influence waning in the Middle East, the Iraqi government wants armed groups, including factions within the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), to lay down their arms and ...

Lauding Iran’s efforts in the war against narcotics, Al-Zarkani said ... which was held in Baghdad, Iraq. During his two-day official visit, Vahidi met counterparts from other countries to explore ...

LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Iraq ... Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups' attacks on Israel and on U.S. troops in the country they say are in solidarity with Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas war.

LONDON (Reuters) - Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the ... The push comes with a backdrop of seismic shifts in the Middle East that have seen Iran's armed allies in Gaza and ...