Iraq is caught between two allies as the Trump administration pressures Iraqi leaders to distance themselves from Iran.

In late July, Iraq's long and difficult path to stability was interrupted again when fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces stormed a Ministry of Agriculture building in Baghdad. The raid was led by Kata'ib Hezbollah, a prominent Iran-aligned ...

Figures like Kharrazi are trying to write the latest chapter of the Islamic Republic’s story using an old script. The 12 days in June in which Israeli jets pounded Iranian infrastructure with devastating results were the closest the Islamic Republic has ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, former CBS and NBC journalist Chip Reid, who was embedded with U.S. forces when the Iraq War broke out, talks to combat veterans of the ...

Key dates in the Iraqi offensive to recapture Mosul, the country's second biggest city, from the Islamic State group (IS) jihadists who seized it in June 2014. - October 17, 2016: Iraqi forces launch the assault. It was in Mosul in July 2014 that IS ...

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