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

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 ...

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

Iraq has long had the reserves, technology, and partners to capture flared gas, but political alignment in Baghdad and rising ...

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 ...

Iraq's electricity ministry said on Saturday there were no signs that Iranian gas supplies would resume to the country soon.

On August 11, 2025, Iran and Iraq signed a significant defence agreement focused on strengthening joint security operations along their approximately 1400-kilometer shared border. The deal was ...

President Donald Trump has finally moved the United States past the traumas of the Iraq War. With the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, the United States made the ...

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 ...

The prime minister of Iraq has kept his country on the sidelines as military conflicts raged nearby for almost two years. This required balancing Iraq's relations with two countries vital to his power ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Now comes a new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations, whether for the better or the even worse. For nearly a half century, the world has witnessed an enmity for the ages — the threats, the ...

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