Iran’s regime is accused of importing foreign militias to crush protests, as experts warn the move marks a dangerous ...

Oil prices rose about 2% on Thursday after two days of declines as investors assessed developments in Venezuela and on ...

Oil prices climbed over 3% on Thursday after two straight days of declines, settling at a two-week high as investors assessed ...

A US State Department official said Washington wants Iran-backed groups excluded from Iraq’s next government, as Baghdad ...

For those arguing against bombing Iran’s nuclear program, the Iraq analogy is a powerful one to make. Operation Iraqi Freedom is widely viewed as an expensive U.S. foreign policy blunder that ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated Saturday that his country is engaged in a 'full-fledged war' with the US, Israel and Europe, describing the multifaceted pressures on Iran as 'far more ...

Iraq’s plan with Oman to build an oil pipeline could give Iran a new route to disguise sanctioned crude as Iraqi and ship it freely, especially to China, bypassing scrutiny in the Persian Gulf. Shared ...

Pro?West Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al?Sudani performed strongly in the 11 November parliamentary elections – the seventh since Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003. With turnout around 56%, ...

Western energy majors including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, and TotalEnergies are re-engaging in Iraq to build its first LNG import terminals. The LNG push aims to reduce Iraq’s dependence on ...

After the change in Syria’s political leadership, Damascus and Baghdad have kept diplomatic channels open between them, although the latter has not removed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa from ...

President Donald Trump, meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, issued stark warnings to both ...

Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I’m looking at why ...