Egypt is facing a difficult strategic choice as fighting in Yemen intensifies around the Bab Al-Mandab Strait. When the ...

A sharp devaluation of the Iraqi dinar has set off an intense and public fight over state finances. Iraq’s Council of Ministers on Oct. 6 approved a 15% rise in the dollar rate from 1,320 to 1,520 IQD ...

Iraq's courts are preparing to try thousands of Islamic State group (IS) suspects from 67 countries, and few of those ...

The recent end of the Coalition mission has not settled questions over the future US role in Iraq. This comes as tensions are ...

Kuwaiti Defense Minister Sheikh Abdullah Ali Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah and his Pakistani counterpart, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, ...

Iran’s restive southeast has in recent weeks seen a series of deadly attacks and prolonged clashes. The violence in ...

Iran’s exiled music icons are starting to come home. Mohsen Namjoo, a well-known singer who has lived abroad for years, ...

Sparking controversy, Iranian hardline MP Hamid Rasaee has been handed a ten-month prison sentence. The verdict comes at the ...

As the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region approaches two years since its Oct. 20, 2024 election without a new government, its ...

A photograph of Brig. Gen. Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran's Passive Defense Organization, wearing a smartwatch has drawn ...

Amid widespread fanfare, Iraq has marked the Sept. 30 withdrawal of US-led Coalition troops with a four-day public holiday.

Iran has offered the US a seven-day plan to fully resume shipping through the Strait of Hormuz while reviving negotiations on ...