The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

Iranian officials say a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Tehran, both of whom allegedly took part in the mass execution of dissidents in 1988.

No such location is depicted on current maps, for the old Kurdistan now falls within the sovereign space of four separate states: Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. Most Kurds – some 25 million – ...

This is a locator map for Iran with its capital ... which came at the end of Iran’s long war with Iraq. After Iran’s then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini accepted a U.N.-brokered ceasefire ...

In the border villages ... terrorist acts.” Iraq refuses to be a battleground, and the missiles of the Houthis cannot compensate for the silence of other proxies. The punishment was severe. The ...

Iran holds tremendous sway inside Iraq despite the presence of US troops, setting up a tug-of-war for the incoming Trump ...

The Iraqi government is looking to gain control of Iranian-aligned armed groups that operate inside of Iraq but outside state ...

The regime is grappling with the collapse of its regional "Axis of Resistance" and mounting economic troubles at home.

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 ...