As Israel and Iran clash, Iraq’s Shia leadership is trying to rein in domestic Iranian-backed paramilitaries to shield the ...

The first came in the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq war. Iran was hit with sanctions amid regional and international support for the aggressor, Iraq, even as Saddam Hussein’s regime used chemical ...

Answering to the supreme leader, its command structure bypasses the elected president. The Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) transformed the IRGC into more of a conventional fighting force, with a command ...

Commenting on the West's provision of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, the Iranian President asserted, “You cowards have unleashed chemical bombs on our people, ...

WASHINGTON, DC - The United States warned on Monday that Iran-backed groups operating in Iraq risk dragging the country into ...

There is no quick path to limiting or reducing Iranian influence in Iraq. Tehran will react fiercely to American efforts to ...

Faylaq al-Waad al-Sadiq leader Sheikh Mohammed al-Tamimi tells Newsweek Trump's "thinking is different" than Biden's.

Most of the Middle East’s rulers, including those of Iran’s allies, would prefer God has other plans. Iraq has been doing ...

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar sent a letter to the president of the UN Security Council, in which he called for immediate ...

(File) Iran-Israel war: In a major move ahead which is likely to strengthen Iran’s influence in neigbouring Iraq, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, a prominent Sunni leader with close ties to Iran ...

If the US doesn't exit Iraq via talks, it "will leave humiliated under the strikes and fire of the Islamic Resistance," they said.

Two decades after US military invasion left it spiraling out of control, a more stable Iraq is beginning to attract ...