Pakistan is set to bar solo travel by Shia pilgrims to Iraq, starting January 1, 2026, in an effort to curb visa overstays ...

Iraq and Iran launch first-ever maritime route for Arbaeen pilgrims, ferrying passengers between Khorramshahr and Basra. The move boosts religious ties amid regional instability and U.S. pressure on ...

Most recently, amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Iraq was on the brink of being drawn into the conflict after pro-Iran factions launched numerous attacks on US troops in the region, as well as ...

The fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire demands a deeper look at long-term consequences for geopolitics in the Middle East.

Iran’s new foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said in an interview on Monday with an Iraqi television channel, Al Forat, that the president’s trip showed “the depth of our relations” with Iraq.

Feb 28 (Reuters) - The first visit to Iraq by an Iranian president since the 1979 Islamic revolution aims to boost ties with a country with which Iran fought an eight-year war in the 1980s and ...

Iran is nothing like Iraq. Indeed, the failures of the Iraq and Afghanistan adventures shouldn’t hamstring the United States from exerting its legitimate power.

Iran’s weapons capabilities, Hussein told Piro in 2004, had increased dramatically while Iraq’s had been largely eliminated due to UN sanctions. The effects of this, he concluded, would be ...

March 3 (Reuters) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is visiting Iraq, the first Iranian president to do so since the two neighbours fought a war in the 1980s in which 1 million people were killed. Tehran's ...