Senior Writer, Foreign Policy & Deputy Editor, National Security and Foreign Policy Iran-aligned forces in ... attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria since the beginning of the war in ...

Iran and Russia have finalised a long-delayed cooperation agreement, reinforcing ties between the two countries just as they both face mounting geopolitical pressures. The 20-year deal, signed by ...

The push comes with a backdrop of seismic shifts in the Middle East that have seen Iran's armed allies in ... that entered Shia-majority Iraq from Syria after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, fueling ...

LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Iraq is trying to convince ... in the Middle East that have seen Iran's armed allies in Gaza and Lebanon heavily degraded and Syria's government overthrown by rebels.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Syria’s interim president made his first trip abroad Sunday, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus’ shift away from Iran as its ...

“It is too early now to talk about which policy President Trump is going to follow for Iraq or Iran.” Armed revolution in neighboring Syria has been viewed with concern. The opposition forces ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed ... a backdrop of seismic shifts in the Middle East that have seen Iran's armed allies in Gaza and Lebanon heavily degraded and Syria's ...

Islamic State crossed the same way a decade later and undertook bloody massacres before being beaten back by a U.S.-led international military coalition and Iraqi security forces and Iran-aligned ...

Iraq Wants Iran-Backed Factions ... shifts in the Middle East that have seen Iran's armed allies in Gaza and Lebanon heavily degraded and Syria's government overthrown by rebels.

Instead, they are spread across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Kurds have been struggling for autonomy for more than a century, and all four of these countries in one way or another have denied ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.