Just six months after the Trump administration said it would begin drawing down U.S. forces in Syria, the U.S. confirmed this week it will also begin reducing the number of U.S. forces in Iraq under ...

The prime minister of Iraq has kept his country on the sidelines as military conflicts raged nearby for almost two years. This required balancing Iraq's relations with two countries vital to his power ...

Iraq is forging ahead with the construction of a wall it is building along its 600-kilometer border with Syria. Even though, in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, walls have been shown to ...

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Members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces and locals gather for a collective prayer for Iran under Israeli attacks, on the bank of Shatt al-Arab River in Basra, Iraq on June 18, 2025. The "Prayer ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Shia al Sudani (far right) met with Brigadier General Kevin Lambert (far left), the incoming commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, and other top US ...