For Iran, Iraq is strategic depth, political sanctuary, and economic lifeline all at once. The results of the November 11 ...

Many voters boycott poll amid deep distrust, as country still struggles to emerge from decades of war and endemic corruption, while Washington and Tehran battle for influence ...

No party won enough seats to form a government on its own, likely setting up months of talks to select the next leader.

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 ...

BAGHDAD — 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 ...

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Iraqis go to the polls Tuesday to elect a new parliament in the sixth such vote since a US-led invasion toppled dictator ...

Mourners gathered Monday in Iran's capital to honor the unknown soldiers killed in the 1980–88 Iran-Iraq war, whose remains ...