Iran has carefully cultivated the image of a fierce regional power with unstoppable momentum, but during the 12-Day War, its image took a major blow.

Pakistan is set to bar solo travel by Shia pilgrims to Iraq, starting January 1, 2026, in an effort to curb visa overstays ...

H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of ...

Iraq and Iran launch first-ever maritime route for Arbaeen pilgrims, ferrying passengers between Khorramshahr and Basra. The move boosts religious ties amid regional instability and U.S. pressure on ...

When the U.S. attacked Iran, many pointed to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq as a parallel. But it is important to stress the ...

Iran is nothing like Iraq. Indeed, the failures of the Iraq and Afghanistan adventures shouldn’t hamstring the United States from exerting its legitimate power.

The fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire demands a deeper look at long-term consequences for geopolitics in the Middle East.

The failures of a foreign technocratic nation-building project turned many Americans into cynics and panic-mongers. Trump reminded them that a superpower must act like one.

Why did Trump bomb iran? Why is the U.S. helping Israel? The answers are complex, but this timeline of U.S.-Iran relations ...

Many Republicans felt they’d been fooled in 2003. They are far less trusting of the government today.

Iran and Iraq emerged from the 1980-1988 war with no clear victor and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, while U.S.-Iraq relations fractured spectacularly in the years after.

Iran and Iraq emerged from the 1980-1988 war with no clear victor and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, while U.S.-Iraq relations fractured spectacularly in the years after.