Several of the Iran-backed militia groups operating in Iraq are set to demilitarize for the first time to avoid conflict with the US following President Trump’s threats to Tehran’s proxies, senior Baghdad officials said. Ten senior commanders and Iraqi ...

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 accomplished little more than eroding public trust in the ...

An Iraqi holds a picture of Major General Hossein Salami, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Tehran, with another holding a cutout of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a shoe around the neck ...

"New York Times" Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller on Friday's "Morning Joe" and discussed her latest piece, "Trump, Iran and the Specter of Iraq: ‘We Bought All the Happy Talk’". JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC HOST: Elizabeth, the Wall Street Journal ...

Supporters of Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, attend Friday prayers in Sadr City, before holding a protest against the Israeli attacks on Iran. Ameer Al-Mohammedawi/dpa Angry protesters on Friday took to the streets in Lebanon and Iraq to ...

In his seminal book “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll offers a meticulously documented account of how mutual misperceptions, intelligence failures and institutional groupthink led to the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The book traces how ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Steve Coll about the parallels between Iraq and Iran when it comes to discussions of a potential war due to an adversarial country's weapons program. Will the U.S. get involved in the deadly fighting between Israel ...

Iraq is exploring alternatives to Iranian gas imports, including options in the Gulf, a government official said, as it seeks to reduce dependence on its sanctions-hit neighbour. The administration of US President Donald Trump announced at the weekend its ...

With elections scheduled for Nov. 11, Iraq is heading toward another vote. But the outcome is already being written in Tehran. Iran’s agents have infiltrated Iraq’s election commission, manipulating the process before a single ballot is cast.

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 oilfields, document falsification, and ship-to-ship ...