Iran faces a critical juncture where decision-makers must weigh the economic distress from sanctions against potential ...

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 U.S., Israel, Russia and Turkey all face major questions as they look to the future of a post-Assad Syria.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

After the U.S. moved to block Iraq's imports of electricity from Iran, Baghdad is looking to Qatar and Oman as possible options should Washington do the same regarding their trade in gas, the boss of ...