"Most Iraqis regard elections as a foregone formality and the reigning order as irredeemably flawed," writes Nabil Salih ...

Iraqi officials have retracted a decision to label Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels as terrorist organizations.

Hamzeh Safavi, a soft-spoken professor of Middle Eastern studies at Tehran University, is not unique among Iranian ...

Sudani's tilt toward the West worries pro-Iran factions, creating a risk that he may be replaced unless he shifts back toward ...

Iraqi PM orders accountability for the error over list meant for Islamic State/al-Qaeda only. Reversal is blow to US efforts ...

By Newsbase MENA syndicate Iraq's investigation committee has identified the perpetrators of the November 26 drone attack on ...

He claims, though others dispute it, that all 400kg of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is safely under rubble. A scramble for ...

"If Maduro won’t be there anymore, it will cause a severe blow to Iranian ambitions’" says former head of Iran branch in Israeli Defense Intelligence ...

In the wake of President Donald Trump's "massive precision strikes" on Iran, concerns have been raised both for Americans in the region and at home. A principal area of worry is cyberattacks by ...

Iraqis head to the polls Nov. 11 to elect 329 parliament members for a four-year term, marking the seventh free election since Saddam Hussein’s 2003 fall. Candidates are treading carefully, pledging ...

The cycle of escalation between Israel and Iran seems to have entered a cooling period as the two sides assess how US president-elect Donald Trump will approach the Middle East when he takes office in ...

Iran has agreed to create electricity transmission networks built through Azerbaijan to Russia. This link enables Russia and Iran to export surplus electricity to each other. Peak consumption for ...