GOP lawmakers push for sanctions on Iraq, citing its subjugation by Iran and the need to halt U.S. aid, highlighting past policy failures and security concerns.

But the decision to invade defied an even larger truth, one that was clear even before the war. Iraq provided a physical and practical buffer to Iran, a country that few disputed had an active ...

Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980, triggering a bitter eight-year war which destabilised the region and devastated both countries. The then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein claimed as a reason for the ...

There is one war, however, that complicates the conventional wisdom on chemical weapons: the protracted Iran-Iraq War. In that conflict, chemical weapons were arguably decisive in allowing Iraq to ...

Iranians, regardless of their grievances, appear to prioritize national cohesion when confronted with external or ...

while simultaneously trying to avoid direct war with Iran. This came Friday night in the form of some 85 strikes against targets in Iraq and Syria linked either to Iranian militias or Iran’s ...

The Iran-Iraq War became one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era, killing nearly two million and leaving both nations devastated. Sparked by Saddam Hussein’s invasion in 1980 ...

“Trump is ready to take the war with us to worse levels ... These forces “must respond to Iraq’s commander-in-chief and not to Iran,” the department said in a statement.

During the Iran-Iraq War, both sides launched many airstrikes against each other's airbases. But one of these airstrikes really stands out - the Iranian attack on the Iraqi H-3 airbase complex. Why is ...

Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah, Iran's regime remains remarkably stable despite internal tensions and international ...

Iran holds tremendous sway with Iraqi armed groups and government leaders. Iraq looms as a complex test ... whose presence dates to the war that President Donald Trump once called a "big, fat ...