Iraq is one of Iran’s last allies in the region, and Iran wants to show its clout in Iraq and pressure Baghdad.

"They are targeting the human beings in Iraq to decrease their morale," Omeed Medhat Mubarak said. "They are not discriminating, differentiating." The allies have denied targeting civilians and ...

“The Iraqi government in general does not want to fall under any one single sphere of influence,” Mr Mansour said, adding that Iran still has big allies in Iraq. For Iran, Baghdad is an ...

Esmail Qaani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, arrived in Iraq on May 14 and met with Iraqi ...

LONDON, England (CNN) --Even before the U.S. troops begin the battle for Baghdad, an unseemly squabble has broken out among the allies over who should rebuild Iraq. Rebuilding Iraq could cost ...

Saddam Hussein risked confrontation last night by increasing the range of missiles trained on British and American war planes patrolling Iraq's no-fly zones. Iraqi forces have added booster ...

in northern Iraq, and has been extended to include Americans fighting alongside the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria. In both places American forces have found eager allies and a ...

Tehran has invested heavily in Iraq Last fall, Iran and its allies had to watch Israel's army inflict a devastating defeat on Lebanon's Hezbollah, considered Tehran's crown jewel. Then ...

This offers an important signpost for U.S. allies charting their futures. Much of Europe was rightly skeptical of the idea that democracy could be introduced by armed intervention in Iraq ...

John McCain emphasized the need to collaborate with democratic allies in a foreign policy speech ... his opposition to withdrawing troops from Iraq soon, saying that could lead to "horrendous ...

Iraq is severely affected by mines and unexploded ... What about mine use by U.S. allies, such as the United Kingdom, who have joined the ban? While the U.S. has not joined the 1997 Mine Ban ...