A few weeks ago, over dinner at a Gulf hotel, a Western diplomat asked me what sounded like an innocent question: “Why are you so determined to keep the Americans in the region? Wouldn’t ...

Iranian Kurdish opposition parties say the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has deployed thousands of troops and heavy weapons to areas near the border with Iraq’s Kurdistan Region ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi arrived in Washington on Monday for an official visit as his government seeks to open a new chapter in relations with the United States centered on investment and ...

The United States has resumed striking Iran, yet both sides continue to treat the June 17 memorandum as the framework for negotiations. That contradiction now hangs over the region: the ceasefire ...

President Donald Trump declared the U.S.-Iran ceasefire “over” at a NATO summit press conference a few days ago. American warplanes have since struck Iran three times. Iran’s navy declared ...

President Trump announces a U.S. takeover of the Strait of Hormuz and a reimposed blockade of Iran. Iran struck five Gulf countries over the weekend. Oman ...

For decades, such meetings would have been almost unimaginable. During his recent visit to Beirut, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani met Lebanon’s three top state leaders as well as ...

Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council sparked controversy on Friday after saying that defendants in corruption cases could benefit from reduced legal measures or lighter sentences if they ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi held two separate meetings in late June with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, both marked by clear tensions over ...

With a cease-fire that’s all but over, the U.S. and Iran traded strikes this week without sparing regional neighbors. Iran attacked U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, dragging Gulf Arab ...

At the funeral of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, his sons sat in the front rows alongside senior clerics, government officials and security commanders. But Mojtaba Khamenei—the son ...

Syria’s interim parliament, sworn in earlier this week after President Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed its last 70 members, contains no representatives from the organization that led Kurdish efforts in ...