A foreign enemy was "trying his darndest to bring down a coalition aircraft," said a Pentagon spokesman. He didn't mean Osama ...

Iraq’s militias have threatened US forces and Israel in the past. They have kidnapped journalists and carried out hundreds of ...

Iraq's new leader wants to disarm Iran-backed militias, but the move risks opening a new front in the Mideast.

Kurdistan Regional Government says 70 percent of its trade has been cut by the regional conflict.

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Clashes between Hindu and Muslim groups in Nepal in late July 2026 left three people dead -- and triggered the spread of a clip that had been misrepresented as a village burned down by rioters. The ...

U.S. military presence in Iraq began with the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. It peaked at more than 170,000 troops during counterinsurgency operations in 2007. The last U.S. combat forces ...

There are three main camps emerging with proposals, all of which have downsides.

The flare-up on multiple fronts, after several days of relative calm, raised the risk of a return to all-out war. It also underscored the difficulty of winding down a five-month conflict that has ...

Iraq’s new prime minister now faces that challenge under the most trying of circumstances. The United States and Iran are at war—and Iraq sits between them. When I met with Ali al-Zaidi during his ...

Despite wars ranging across the Middle East, more than 20 million Shia pilgrims gather in Iraq shrine city for Arbaeen ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Millions of Shiite Muslims observed the annual Arbaeen pilgrimage Tuesday in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala, ...