The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the intergovernmental body that assesses compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, was barred from going within about 40 miles of the affected ...

H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...

An interview with Steve Coll, author of the new book, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of ...

Iraq’s parliament will decide the fate of the revoked Khor Abdullah treaty with Kuwait after leaders withdrew legal appeals.

The Trump administration's May 2025 announcement in Riyadh, and subsequent executive order in June, lifting all sanctions on ...

Last month's deadly church bombing outside Syria's capital is raising fears among the country's minority Christians.

This decision, made quietly, cautiously, and with the best of intentions, reshaped the fate of a nation and the entire region ...

The brutal fight against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq four decades ago shaped Tehran’s approach to the recent war and guides its ...

During Gulf War II, coalition forces made a stunning discovery in the Iraqi desert: dozens of fighter jets buried beneath ...

When the U.S. attacked Iran, many pointed to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq as a parallel. But it is important to stress the ...

The future of the Islamic Republic may be shaped more by the country’s culture and politics than by the military prowess of ...

How Mossad's Saddam Plot Failed, And Left Elite Israeli Soldiers In Coffins In the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, Israel viewed Iraq's Saddam Hussein as a dangerous and unpredictable threat.