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Even before Hezbollah launched more than 100 rockets, cruise missiles and drones toward northern Israel on Sunday, people who lived in the area feared they would be targeted. Most of [...]

Byline: Alissa J. Rubin Hamas and the Houthis have opened offices in Baghdad, reflecting the two groups' evolving relationship with Iraq as Tehran works to build a regional power bloc. [...]

Hamas and the Houthis have opened offices in Baghdad, reflecting the two groups' evolving relationship with Iraq as Tehran works to build a regional power bloc. There is no sign [...]

In a region in turmoil, Tehran's ties to its neighbor are more important than ever. Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, arrived in Iraq on Wednesday for his first trip abroad since [...]

The attack late Monday resembled previous ones carried out by Iraqi armed groups, backed by Iran, which have targeted the base repeatedly over the past nine months. A rocket attack [...]

The United States and Iran are at odds over the Gaza war as well as proposals for an American troop withdrawal from Iraq. When Iraq's prime minister traveled to Washington [...]

The Golan Heights, where a rocket from Lebanon https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/world/middleeast/majdal-shams-attack-golan.html on Saturday, is an area bordering Syria that Israel seized during the 1967 Six-Day War. Since then it has been a [...]

Byline: Alissa J. Rubin In a series of interviews, virtually every resident of Tehran listed Iran's sickly economy as the No. 1 issue for the country's next president. In the [...]

In a series of interviews, virtually every resident of Tehran listed Iran's sickly economy as the No. 1 issue for the country's next president. In the working-class neighborhood of Tehran […]

Byline: Alissa J. Rubin In Tehran, many Iranians said they didn't see the point in voting in Friday's first-round presidential election since all the candidates had been vetted by the [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi, Alissa J. Rubin and Russell Goldman Candidates in the campaign to fill the seat of President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, showed notable candor [...]

In Tehran, many Iranians said they didn't see the point in voting in Friday's first-round presidential election since all the candidates had been vetted by the government. Except for the [...]

The latest polling suggested Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate, was in the lead, but not enough to avoid a runoff. As voting proceeded in Iran's presidential election on Friday, [...]

Byline: Alissa J. Rubin Iranians say they have little faith their votes in Friday's presidential election will improve their lives, and many are planning to sit it out. Central Tehran [...]

Iranians say they have little faith their votes in Friday's presidential election will improve their lives, and many are planning to sit it out. Central Tehran is ablaze this week [...]

Byline: Alissa J. Rubin Iraqis want to help Palestinians but say they are still recovering from their own wars and fear playing host to a proxy fight between Iran and [...]

Iraqis want to help Palestinians but say they are still recovering from their own wars and fear playing host to a proxy fight between Iran and the United States. Iraqis [...]

The sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi is not expected to affect the actions of groups like Hezbollah and the Houthis, which are vital to Iran's power. While uncertainty surrounds [...]

The sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi is not expected to affect the actions of groups like Hezbollah and the Houthis, which are vital to Iran’s power. While uncertainty surrounds [...]

Mr. Mokhber has long been involved in business conglomerates tied to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He must hold elections for a new president within 50 days. With the [...]

Most attacks on Israel during the war in the Gaza Strip have come from Palestinian militants and from Hezbollah forces across the border in Lebanon. But over the past three [...]

Most attacks on Israel during the war in the Gaza Strip have come from Palestinian militants and from Hezbollah forces across the border in Lebanon. But over the past three [...]

The shooting of Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi, known online as Um Fahad, comes amid tightening laws and increasingly conservative attitudes in the country. It took less than 46 seconds for the [...]

A drone attack on a large gas field in Iraq’s Kurdistan region killed four workers and plunged much of eastern Kurdistan into darkness because it relies on gas to fuel [...]

The U.S. military destroyed a rocket launcher in Iraq in self-defense, an American defense official said late Sunday, after rockets were fired from the area toward a base used by [...]

The U.S. military destroyed a rocket launcher in Iraq in self-defense, an American defense official said late Sunday, after rockets were fired from the area toward a base used by [...]

There was an https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/18/world/israel-iran-gaza-war-news/an-explosion-at-a-military-base-in-iraq-wounds-three-people?smid=url-share, Harakat al Nujaba, in Iraq’s Babylon Province, according to an arm of Iraq’s security forces, the Popular Mobilization Forces. The https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/world/middleeast/iraq-us-airstrikes-militias-iran.html?searchResultPosition=7 are responsible for the brigade [...]

Byline: Alissa J. Rubin and Vivian Nereim The Iranian attack on Israeli territory made the Middle East's new reality undeniable: Clashes are getting harder and harder to contain. Arab countries, [...]

The Iranian attack on Israeli territory made the Middle East's new reality undeniable: Clashes are getting harder and harder to contain. Arab countries, from the United Arab Emirates and Oman [...]

A guide to the armed groups that let Iran extend its influence throughout the region. For years, Iran has been the outsider. Predominantly Persian-speaking in a region where most people [...]

Byline: Alissa J. Rubin As Iranian-backed groups and American forces, both of which have bases in Iraq, lock horns around the Mideast, things are becoming uncomfortable for the Iraqi government. [...]

As Iranian-backed groups and American forces, both of which have bases in Iraq, lock horns around the Mideast, things are becoming uncomfortable for the Iraqi government. For years, Iraq has [...]

The killing of a leader of Kata'ib Hezbollah continued a series of strikes in retaliation for attacks on U.S. troops in the region, including one that killed three Americans in [...]

The killing of a leader of Kata’ib Hezbollah continued a series of strikes in retaliation for attacks on U.S. troops in the region, including one that killed three Americans in [...]

Tehran provides arms and support to an array of militant groups across the Mideast, but it does not call all the shots, experts say. Iran projects its military power through [...]

Tehran provides arms and support to an array of militant groups across the Mideast, but it does not call all the shots, experts say. Iran projects its military power through [...]

In a surprise move, an Iran-linked militia in Iraq that the Pentagon said was likely responsible for a lethal drone attack on an U.S. base in Jordan over the weekend [...]

In a surprise move, an Iran-linked militia in Iraq that U.S. officials say may have been responsible for a lethal drone attack on a U.S. base in Jordan over the [...]

Iran has long cultivated proxy forces across the Middle East, but nowhere do they present a more complex picture than in Iraq and Syria, where they have repeatedly challenged U.S. [...]

The United States on Thursday began moving toward what could be an eventual withdrawal of troops from Iraq, agreeing to start talks with Baghdad on a timetable for a phased [...]

The U.S. Treasury said on Monday that it would sanction an Iraqi budget airline, Fly Baghdad, for ferrying weapons, cash and fighters on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [...]

At least two U.S. service members stationed in western Iraq were injured on Saturday when their air base came under heavy rocket and missile fire from what American officials said [...]

Iran says its missile strikes were aimed at militant groups behind attacks on its territory, but Pakistan and Iraq rejected that explanation. Iran hit its neighbors Pakistan and Iraq with [...]

Byline: David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes, Vivian Yee and Alissa J. Rubin Iran wants to flex its muscles without directly taking on the U.S. or Israel, but that cautious [...]

Iran says its missile strikes were aimed at militant groups behind attacks on its territory, but Pakistan and Iraq rejected that explanation. Iran hit its neighbors Pakistan and Iraq with [...]

Iran wants to flex its muscles without directly taking on the U.S. or Israel, but that cautious strategy is subject to miscalculation on all sides. For all the fears of [...]

Explosions shook Erbil, a city in northern Iraq, and at least four civilians were killed, local officials said. Syrian targets were also hit, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards [...]

The attack, acknowledged by the Pentagon, killed a senior militant leader of an Iran-allied group with ties to the Iraqi government's security apparatus. A U.S. Special Operations drone strike in [...]

The attack, acknowledged by the Pentagon, killed the militant leader of an Iran-allied group with ties to the Iraqi government’s security apparatus. A United States drone strike in Baghdad on [...]

Byline: Alissa J. Rubin and Emily Garthwaite Just south of Baghdad, the urban sprawl gives way to glimpses of green, with lush date palm groves bordering the Euphrates River. But [...]