Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly ...

By bnm Gulf bureau Iraq faces a potential energy crisis as US President Donald Trump ends its exemption from sanctions on ...

In this BBC Persian film for the BBC World Service, former child soldiers share their untold stories and deeply personal ...

The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when the Iraq War, ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

The parliamentary speakers of Iraq and Iran met in Tehran on Monday to discuss legislative cooperation on regional border ...

Following two years that saw little help from Washington, there is now a 'refreshing change in tone,' her sister, Emma, tells ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

First gas deliveries to start on 1 March and will be sent via Iran, but long-term growth in supplies expected to require new ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials told The ...

On February 2, a drone targeted the Khor Mor gas field in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Dana Gas, which runs the ...