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The alliance is under scrutiny after the recent Israeli strikes in Lebanon. The death of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, in an Israeli airstrike last week has focused attention [...]

Iran united militias to take on Israel, but as the Israelis pummel one, Hezbollah, the rest have so far largely failed to come to its aid. The idea was simple: [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 […]

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 [...]

Candidates in the campaign to fill the seat of President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, showed notable candor about the country's mounting problems. A reformist candidate critical [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just south of Baghdad, the urban sprawl gives way to glimpses of green, with lush date palm groves bordering the Euphrates River. But few risk spending much time there. Not [...]

Just south of Baghdad, the urban sprawl gives way to glimpses of green, with lush date palm groves bordering the Euphrates River. But few risk spending much time there. Not [...]

Soon after Israel responded to Hamas’s deadly raid last month by attacking Gaza, a low-level armed conflict began playing out anew between the United States and Iranian-backed groups. The ground [...]

The staunch support for Israel has stoked accusations of American hypocrisy, with Arab critics fearing a wholesale massacre of Palestinians in response to the deadly Hamas attack on Israel. President [...]

The fire that killed almost 120 people had been accidental, a report said, but occurred after a series of decisions that proved deadly. Investigators looking into the cause of a [...]

The fire that killed almost 120 people had been accidental, a report said, but occurred after a series of decisions that proved deadly. Investigators looking into the cause of a [...]

The wedding hall lacked emergency exits and a sprinkler system, and was made of materials that seemed similar to those used in Grenfell Tower in London, where a fire in [...]

The wedding hall lacked emergency exits and a sprinkler system, and was made of materials that seemed similar to those used in Grenfell Tower in London, where a fire in [...]

As the bride and groom danced, witnesses said, flares were set off at the venue in northern Iraq, starting a fire that spread with astonishing speed and killed more than [...]

Eyewitnesses said flares were set off in celebration as the bride and groom danced, and that a fire broke out at astonishing speed. A fire swept through a wedding hall [...]