Iraq was already facing a crisis prior to the Israeli airstrikes on Iran and Iran’s retaliation. In May, the autonomous ...

President Biden blamed the strike on "radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq," and an umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq later appeared to claim ...

It has reasons to believe this, because when ISIS was on the rise in Syria, it rapidly took over a swath of Iraq – leading to a genocide of the minority Yazidis. In addition, Iran’s Foreign ...

Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq may move away from the Syrian border after years of using the area to move into Syria and ...

“We have seen the reports, and we tracked the missiles, which impacted in northern Iraq and northern Syria. No US personnel or facilities were targeted,” the official said. “Iran is claiming ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about Iran's strategy after attacking targets in Iraq, Syria and Pakistan.

DUBAI — Iran is scrambling to mobilize regional fighters to help prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has deployed members of Hezbollah and Iraq’s Shiite militias to Syria, soldiers ...

Dozens of Iran-aligned Iraqi Hashd al Shaabi fighters from Iraq also crossed into Syria through a military route near Al Bukamal crossing, a senior Syrian army source told Reuters. "These are ...

Iran has been financing politicians, parties and armed groups in Iraq for years. After the fall of Bashar Assad's regime in neighboring Syria, Tehran is also under pressure in Iraq. Bitte passen ...

the security chief explained that Iran’s actions in Syria were largely for its own security. “We are not at all regretful of the costs we incurred,” he asserted. “If ISIS had not been eradicated in ...

which established a self-styled caliphate across vast swathes of Iraq and Syria a decade ago before counter-offensives backed both by the United States and Iran. The Iraqi government has close ties to ...

The subgroups that make it up talk about their presence and military involvement outside of Iraq's border, particularly in Syria. Iran has varied relationships with each group, and supports them ...