Iraqi Ministry of Planning official warns the country's oil-dependent economy (>90% of budget) is a fragile model, urging a shift to a diverse, sustainable economy.

Iraq's foreign minister and the UK foreign secretary discussed the rapid regional developments and strategies to prevent ...

Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi armed group, has cautioned the U.S. against intervening in the escalating Israel-Iran ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in ...

Iran remains a key obstacle to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s post-October 7 vision for a ‘new Middle East’.

President Trump has thus been politically wise to sit out the war. Trump needs no Crassus-style quest for Middle Eastern ...

Russia's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced continued Israeli attacks on Iran as illegal and said a solution to the ...

Iran responded to this aggression by unleashing the two largest ballistic missile attacks ever launched against Israel. But Israel, backed by the U.S. military and other partners, repelled those ...

Markets have shrugged off geopolitical risks, but complacency is high with the S&P 500 above 6,000. Investors are conditioned ...

The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

In the early hours of June 13, Israel unleashed a series of pre-emptive strikes on Iran’s nuclear development, its missile ...

The ongoing Israel-Iran conflict could trigger global instability, spike oil prices, disrupt trade routes, increase inflation ...