Azerbaijanis in Iran, like many other non-Persian ethnic minority groups living under the Islamic Republic, face repression ...

"Waltz welcomed the Iraqi Prime Minister’s efforts to achieve energy independence for Iraq, and encouraged the Iraqi government to welcome more western and U.S. energy companies into Iraq’s ...

Gregory Gause III, The International Relations of the Persian Gulf (Cambridge University Press, 2010); Madawi Al-Rasheed, A History of Saudi Arabia (Cambridge University Press, 2002); Charles Tripp, A ...

After the U.S. moved to block Iraq's imports of electricity from Iran, Baghdad is looking to Qatar and Oman as possible options should Washington do the same regarding their trade in gas, the boss of ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

A newspaper article led us to Kurdistan in northern Iraq, where conservation biologist Hana Raza had discovered Persian leopards inhabiting oak and pistachio woodlands high up in the mountains.

Iran's prioritization of neighbors in its foreign trade has led to growth in the exports and imports in recent years and ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Japan’s diplomatic documents worked out three decades ago during the Persian Gulf crisis, triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in the year after the Cold War ended, were recently ...