PIJ held some hostages in Gaza, and in many cases, it appears hostages held by the group were treated even more brutally than ...

Falih al Fayyadh, the chairman of Iraq’s largely pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), visited Tehran and met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. According to reports, Fayyadh also ...

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Iraq looms as a complex ... that pries loose a weakened Iran's grip or an isolationist that withdraws the remaining American troops, whose presence dates to the war that President Donald Trump ...

Despite Iraq’s vast reserves of (associated) natural gas, the country has long been dependent on Iranian gas supplies.