“This summit will be successful by all standards,” Ihsan Ali, a diplomat at the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told The ...

NPR's A Martinez talks with Doug Silliman, president of the Arab Gulf States Institute and former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, about President Trump's Gulf trip and Iran's offer to revive a nuclear deal.

Trump signaled confidence that a nuclear deal with Iran is imminent. The deal on the table restricts Iran's nuclear ...

Esmail Qaani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, arrived in Iraq on May 14 and met with Iraqi ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. Jean-Guillaume Poulain, met with the Iraqi authorities in Amman and Baghdad during May 4–13 to conduct the 2025 Article IV consultation. The fo ...

Christians—some 380 million spanning 190 countries—face persecution of a unique breadth and intensity, with few advocates as powerful as the U.S.

Iraq is one of Iran’s last allies in the region, and Iran wants to show its clout in Iraq and pressure Baghdad.

President Donald Trump talked often during the 2024 presidential campaign about stopping “endless” wars in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump is holding out Saudi Arabia as a model for a reimagined Middle East. He's using his first major ...

President Trump addressed Israel and the Palestinians during a speech Tuesday in Saudi Arabia: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Since January 20th, the U.S. military has terminated 83 terrorist leaders ...

President Donald Trump is in Saudi Arabia for the first leg of his three-nation visit to the Middle East this week. His first ...