On March 20, 2003, the United States led a coalition to invade Iraq (herein Iraq II). Iraq I had occurred as a result of an ...

Iraq's balancing act has been tested by Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups' attacks ... Shia-majority Iraq from Syria after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, fuelling years of sectarian war.

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel to lay down their weapons or join official ...

With Iranian influence waning in the Middle East, the Iraqi government wants armed groups, including factions within the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), to lay down their arms and ...

A major unintended consequence of the US invasion has been a huge rise in the influence its arch foe Iran now wields in Iraq. Iran and Iraq fought a protracted war in the 1980s, but the neighbours ...

In a significant move that highlights the strengthening relationship between Iran and Iraq ... notably closer since the 2003 ...

It really rankles some people that Barack Obama was correct from the outset, before any unfolding of the history confirming he was right, that the invasion of Iraq in 2003... If any governments ...

Iraq's balancing act has been tested by Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups' attacks on Israel and on U.S. troops in ... were among the Sunni Muslim militants that entered Shia-majority Iraq from Syria ...