Members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces and locals gather for a collective prayer for Iran under Israeli attacks, on the bank of Shatt al-Arab River in Basra, Iraq on June 18, 2025. The "Prayer ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrea Stanton, University of Denver (THE CONVERSATION) After 12 days of trading ...

Israel has expressed its intent to lock in the strategic gains it made over Iran during the recent ‘12 Day War’ with Tehran in June, including air superiority. Doing so could entail Israel imposing an ...

HE WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of Hizbullah, is still plastered on posters all over Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. Alongside ...

They can reveal weaknesses, highlight areas for strengthening national resilience, and compel societies to confront realities they previously ignored. In the process, nations may act more wisely: ...

Members of Iraq’s Badr militia. (Iranian Qods International News Agency ) The Qatari New Arab reported on July 17 that Esmail Ghaani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards-Quds Force (IRGC ...

Iraq’s election has been closely watched from way beyond its borders, as the young democracy finds itself in a power struggle between the US, Israel and Iran. The parliamentary vote, the seventh since ...

BAGHDAD — The prime minister of Iraq has kept his country on the sidelines as military conflicts raged nearby for almost two years. This required balancing Iraq's relations with two countries vital to ...