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With Iranian influence waning in the Middle East, the Iraqi government wants armed groups, including factions within the Iran-backed ... inside Iraq and outside state control are unacceptable.

The report suggests that Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is fully aware that Iraq serves as Iran’s last ...

PM Barzani addressed Kurdistan’s diplomatic balancing act between the U.S. and Iran. Despite tensions between Washington and ...

Iraq looms as a complex test for ... Forces before it gets too rich and powerful to control — as the Revolutionary Guard did inside Iran," Knights said. Many of these pro-Iran militias have ...

With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani looks on as Iraq's National Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji and Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Shamkhani sign the security ...

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