President Saddam Hussein launched a war against their neighbour Iran on 1980. The war, which went on for eight years, is considered to be one of the bloodiest and longest conflicts of the 20th Century ...

Russia is mediating between Iran and Israel while Donald Trump tries to remake the Middle East with the US-backed Gaza peace ...

Decades of mismanagement, underinvestment and corruption have strained the power grid of Iraq, which is OPEC's second-largest ...

Iraq’s plan with Oman to build an oil pipeline could give Iran a new route to disguise sanctioned crude as Iraqi and ship it freely, especially to China, bypassing scrutiny in the Persian Gulf. Shared ...

Russia is mediating between Iran and Israel while Donald Trump tries to remake the Middle East with the US-backed Gaza peace ...

The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s ...

Iran has built parallel military infrastructure across Syria and Iraq over decades, creating a shadow empire that security ...

A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since US and Israeli airstrikes in June - but many citizens are just trying to get by ...

A ceasefire in Gaza has created a hopefully enduring–albeit uneasy–pause in the two-year Israel-Hamas war, with the recent ...

The first comprehensive study of its kind reveals how the Israel-Iran War became an unprecedented laboratory for spreading disinformation and false content, much of it generated or processed using AI ...

As the Middle East broadly welcomes a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Iran finds itself at one of its weakest ...

Iran could surrender its nuclear ambitions. Call this the Libya option, after Muammar Qaddafi’s renunciation of his nuclear ...