The Israeli military said it struck Iran early Friday morning, attacking dozens of targets, including nuclear sites, and ...

Fears are growing that a wider conflict could erupt in the Middle East following strikes on Tehran’s nuclear facilities ...

The United States has maintained a military presence in the Middle East for decades, currently stationing between 40,000 and 50,000 troops across at least 19 sites.

Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami reported killed. Fears of war rise as nuclear talks stall. See Iranian facilities before and after.

The United States is the main international backer of Israel, Iran's biggest regional foe. It is also a close ally of Sunni ...

It urged Iranians avoid any travel to Iraq while urging Iran's Shiite pilgrims in Iraq ... visit Iraq for annual pilgrimage to Shiite sites. Kuwait meanwhile has urged its citizens in neighboring ...

But not all are thrilled. Arabs fear the railway will shunt Iraq further into Iran’s embrace. Kuwait, which has long proposed a rail link from Iraq to its own ports, feels rebuffed. The Saudis ...

Iraq’s leaders have a lot on their minds, stuck between Israel and Iran as the two countries veer ... that followed the 1991 invasion of Kuwait, liberation by the U.S.-led “coalition of ...

we decided to reduce the footprint of our mission in Iraq." US President Donald Trump told a podcast on Wednesday that he was growing less confident that a deal could be reached over Iran's ...

Iraq's economic plight was one of the factors that led Saddam to take the fateful decision to invade Kuwait in 1990. And on that occasion the Western and regional powers which had come to his aid in ...