Iraq is exploring alternatives to Iranian gas imports, including options in the Gulf, a government official said, as it seeks ...

For decades, the US political establishment has treated war with Iran as an inevitability. We must reverse course.

Iran reportedly urged the Houthis to de-escalate tensions in the Red Sea following President Donald Trump’s warning the US ...

After the U.S. moved to block Iraq's imports of electricity from Iran, Baghdad is looking to Qatar and Oman as possible ...

Reflections on a recent visit to Baghdad. Much has changed and ordinary life has resumed in Iraq's capital, but deep ...

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.

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

Ever since its revolution in 1979, Iran has cultivated a network of proxies and friends throughout the Middle East. For years, this strategy proved successful. Slowly but surely, Tehran’s “axis of ...

March 19, 2003, I resigned from the US Department of State. I was the Deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in ...

Back then, Trump imposed sweeping US sanctions on any other country buying Iran’s oil. The waiver was extended to Iraq as a “key partner” of the US. Since returning to the White House for a ...

For decades, Iran has worked to control Iraq, using money, militias, and political pressure. This has allowed Tehran to use ...