Figures like Kharrazi are trying to write the latest chapter of the Islamic Republic’s story using an old script. The 12 days in June in which Israeli jets pounded Iranian infrastructure with ...

To Tehran, however, Iraq has functioned as something else entirely: a sovereign shield for militias, a logistics corridor for weapons, and a financial artery sustaining Iran’s regional war machine. As ...

The warning came a month after sources in the Northern Command told Walla that Israel was seeing an increased threat from the country. US Envoy Tom Barrack warned Baghdad not to involve itself in ...

Tehran and its regional proxy groups have threatened retaliation against the United States and Israel as Washington moves ...

Iran’s deadly crackdown on protesters and US warnings of intervention are being closely watched by neighbouring countries in the Middle East. Here is how the crisis is regarded […] ...

Iraqis head to the polls Nov. 11 to elect 329 parliament members for a four-year term, marking the seventh free election since Saddam Hussein’s 2003 fall. Candidates are treading carefully, pledging ...

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In late 2003, I was asked to take on the task of demobilizing Iraqi militias. This would later be named the “transition and ...

Freed Israeli hostage Elizabeth Tsurkov is expected to be flown to Israel on Wednesday afternoon, according to Hebrew media reports, and will be taken to the hospital in a protocol similar to the one ...

A couple of weeks into the war against Iraq, it's already clear that some of the promises made by the Bush administration — that ordinary Iraqis would welcome American troops as liberators, and that ...