Saudi apprehension has its roots in a long-standing fear that Iran, as the seat of Shia Islam, would use an offensive nuclear capability to exert unchallenged political influence over the rest of ...

Since the fall of the Bashar al Assad regime, statements from Iraqi politicians, actions by Iran-backed militias against Syrians, and public rhetoric from Iraqi Shiites targeting Sharaa have become ...

Aoun said the government has yet to speak to Hezbollah about the matter, but that Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, a Shiite politician allied to the militant group, “is in full agreement ...

BAGHDAD — Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US Trump administration, 10 ...

Aoun said the government has yet to speak to Hezbollah about the matter, but that Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, a Shiite politician allied to the militant group, “is in full agreement” that the ...