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Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the supreme religious authority for Iraqi Shiites, on Friday condemned the attacks exchanged by the United States and Iran on Iraqi soil, warning of the deterioration of security in the country and the region as a…

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it will summon the ambassador of Tehran in Baghdad to convey a message of protest against the Iranian missile attack on Iraqi military bases that include American soldiers, adding in a…

U.S. President Donald Trump planned to make a statement on the situation in Iran at 11 a.m. ET/1600 GMT, a White House official told Reuters.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Foreign Minister Mevlüt çavuşoğlu will visit Iraq on Thursday in an attempt to ease tension after Iran launched a missile attack on US-led forces in response to the killing of the Iranian…

German Foreign Minister Haikou Maas said that the threat of sanctions against Iraq does not work, after US President Donald Trump warned that Baghdad might be subject to sanctions "they had never seen before" calling for the use of…

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose sanctions on Baghdad after the Iraqi parliament demanded that US forces leave the country "they have never seen anything like it before," adding "Iran's sanctions will be a small thing next…

Iraq’s parliament called on Sunday for U.S. and other foreign military forces to leave amid a growing backlash against the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander that has heightened fears of a wider Middle East conflict.

The US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria has announced that it would halt most operations against militants today and focus on protecting coalition forces and bases amid increasing tension with Iran after the assassination of…

The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, said that the American army in the Middle East will pay the price of the assassination of the Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, who was targeted by a US air raid two…

The son of Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric was there to welcome the funeral procession for Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf, state TV said on Saturday.