Move to stop permitting Iraqi purchases of Iranian energy will tighten sanctions but stress a U.S. partner in the region.

When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, few expected the war to last nearly a decade. With trench warfare, chemical attacks, and ...

The late Senator and presidential candidate John McCain once said: “The only thing worse than bombing Iran is letting Iran ...

Zahra Mousavi Some of the veterans who took part in the protest also fought in the Iran-Iraq war that went from 1980 to 1988. They were celebrated as heroes at home. Many of them, however ...

During the Iran-Iraq War, thousands of Iranian children were sent to the front lines. Through deeply personal testimonies, former child soldiers share their untold stories with the BBC World Service.

Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years ...

The United States has ended a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighbouring Iran, in line with US ...

The extraordinary details have come to light because thousands of State Department documents dealing with the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war have just been declassified and released under the Freedom of ...

A story of history and mythology meets 1980’s Iran in Boston University playwright Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens’ ...

The United States has declined to renew a waiver that had allowed Iraq to buy electricity from Iran without running afoul of sanctions, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said Sunday ...

Israel's war on Gaza and the fall of Assad have rattled the region, but as history shows, there is often more continuity than ...

But in the chaos of the post-revolution period and, especially, the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War, these groups were repressed. Not only did enforcement of compulsory hijab go forward, but the ...