Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly ...

In this BBC Persian film for the BBC World Service, former child soldiers share their untold stories and deeply personal ...

The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when the Iraq War, ...

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

Iraq is set to become a hot zone of proxy fighting between Turkish-backed Islamist militants and Iranian-backed ones.

In other words, the U.S. would fight another major insurgency in the Middle East. It would be the battle of Fallujah on steroids. The Gazan population is six times greater than that Iraqi city was in ...

Iraqi experts told The New Arab that the Iran-backed militias in Iraq are prepared to resume attacks on Israel and the US ...

The call comes amid growing US pressure on Iraq to prevent its financial system from breaching sanctions on neighbouring Iran ...

Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

Daryush Nourbaha knows he’s fortunate. As an American, he’s had security and opportunities. Now he hopes he can pay some of ...

The parliamentary speakers of Iraq and Iran met in Tehran on Monday to discuss legislative cooperation on regional border ...