This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at Iran’s worsening water crisis, which has now prompted the government to consider ...

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 ...

The future of European stability lies not in the Middle East, but in Europe’s own willingness to confront the challenges it ...

During a recent White House interview, US President Donald Trump praised Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, ...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Tehran and Washington had come “very close” to an agreement, but the process ...

Iran is entering one of the most difficult moments in its history. The alliances it had built across the region are falling ...

Today, the Land of the Cedars remains a delicate patchwork of identities, hopes, and unresolved tensions. Into this complex ...

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 ...

Baghdad: The pro-Iran Coordination Framework in Iraq is likely to engage in prolonged negotiations over the appointment of a new prime minister despite its assertions that the process will remain ...

For Iran, Iraq is strategic depth, political sanctuary, and economic lifeline all at once. The results of the November 11 Iraqi elections will decide who in Baghdad controls the budgetary levers, ...

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