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Pakistan is set to bar solo travel by Shia pilgrims to Iraq, starting January 1, 2026, in an effort to curb visa overstays ...
H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...
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 ...
When the U.S. attacked Iran, many pointed to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq as a parallel. But it is important to stress the ...
But with Baghdad both an ally of Iran and a strategic partner of the United States, Israel's closest supporter, it may struggle to avoid the fighting spreading to its territory.
The fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire demands a deeper look at long-term consequences for geopolitics in the Middle East.
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.
The failures of a foreign technocratic nation-building project turned many Americans into cynics and panic-mongers. Trump reminded them that a superpower must act like one.
Why did Trump bomb iran? Why is the U.S. helping Israel? The answers are complex, but this timeline of U.S.-Iran relations ...
In line with its long-standing approach of strategic patience, Iran is not stepping back but rearming and regrouping for a ...
Many Republicans felt they’d been fooled in 2003. They are far less trusting of the government today.
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Steve Coll about the parallels between Iraq and Iran when it comes to discussions of a potential war due to an adversarial country's weapons program.