Iranian officials pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi during his recent visit to Tehran to repay $11 billion in outstanding debt accumulated over years of Iraqi imports of Iranian natural ...

The crisis in the Strait has forced Iraq to reassess its participation in OPEC, the cartel-like organization of petroleum-producing countries founded to coordinate prices and supply in the market.

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi asked Iranian officials during his visit to Tehran to guarantee the safe passage of tankers chartered to transport Iraqi oil through the Strait of Hormuz, amid ...

As Saudi Arabia has increased its reliance on the Red Sea to bypass instability in the Strait of Hormuz, a new threat is emerging in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait–Yemen’s Iran-aligned ...

In a recent interview, President Donald Trump once again raised the idea of allowing Syria to intervene in Lebanon. He suggested that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa might do a better job of ...

Iran has instructed its Houthi allies in Yemen to prepare to disrupt oil tanker traffic through the Red Sea if the United States targets Iran’s power grid or energy infrastructure, raising ...

Throughout American history, few years have been as bleak as 1777.   On land, British troops had seized several major cities. They had captured New York, then Philadelphia – the de facto capital ...

On April 28, 1978, President Jimmy Carter planted a Lebanese cedar on the South Lawn of the White House to mark Arbor Day, a gesture intended to reflect the deep-rooted ties between ...

Three sources within Iraq’s ruling Shiite Coordination Framework said Iran reacted with broad concern after Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi met with U.S. President Donald Trump in ...

An anti-corruption campaign ordered by Iraq’s new prime minister is widening into the upper ranks of the state, unsettling the country’s Shiite political establishment and turning graft ...

A senior Yemeni Foreign Ministry official told MBN that Iran has recently sent to Yemen commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), military advisers, missiles and drone ...

Iraq and Syria signed an agreement on Friday to rebuild the pipeline that carries Iraqi crude to Syria’s Mediterranean port of Banias, marking Baghdad’s latest effort to secure an ...