It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Sadegh Adham shares how his childhood experiences during the Iran-Iraq war shaped his art, exploring themes of imperfection, identity, and bridging cultural history with global audiences.

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

On February 06, 2025, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps' (IRGC) accepted the delivery of the new homegrown drone and ...

ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

For Israeli PM Netanyahu, a more opportune time to strike Iran has not existed. With Trump’s return, the Israeli leadership ...

S&P Global Ratings has reaffirmed Iraq's long-term and short-term foreign and local currency credit ratings at 'B-' and 'B' respectively, maintaining a stable outlook. This decision was announced on ...

On the evening of Thursday 30 January 2025, the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Unit at the Arab Center for Research and ...

Donald Trump’s statements may serve more as political rhetoric than actual policy directives. However, they have intensified ...

Donald Trump, the great disrupter, has launched the ultimate disruption – proposing the re-making of the Middle East and Gaza in a set of ideas that at face value are imprecise, unworkable, chaotic ...

Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected Pakhshan Azizi’s request for a retrial, placing the Kurdish humanitarian worker at imminent ...