Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly ...

In this BBC Persian film for the BBC World Service, former child soldiers share their untold stories and deeply personal ...

The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when the Iraq War, ...

Iraq is set to become a hot zone of proxy fighting between Turkish-backed Islamist militants and Iranian-backed ones.

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

Daryush Nourbaha knows he’s fortunate. As an American, he’s had security and opportunities. Now he hopes he can pay some of ...

Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

The Iran-Iraq War was one of the most devastating conflicts of the late twentieth century. On the ground, despite each side possessing modern weaponry, airplanes, and tanks, the war was..

Yuval Vagdani woke up on Jan. 4 to a flurry of missed calls from family members and Israel's Foreign Ministry with an urgent ...

Iraqi experts told The New Arab that the Iran-backed militias in Iraq are prepared to resume attacks on Israel and the US ...

The call comes amid growing US pressure on Iraq to prevent its financial system from breaching sanctions on neighbouring Iran ...