Ten Republican members of the US House of Representatives have demanded that Washington designate several Iraqi paramilitary ...

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Sharia law, which influences much of Iraq’s legal system, permits child marriage under certain conditions, often tied to the ...

Mohsen M Milani’s book charts the Islamic Republic’s rise to ‘peak power’ and the fall-out from Hamas’s assault on Israel ...

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

On July 21, 2024, US president Joe Biden stepped aside in favour of his vice-president Kamala Harris, a few months before the elections. His selfish delay cost their Democratic party the presidency.

The BBC speaks to people around the world who will be affected if Donald Trump shuts the US's main overseas aid agency.

Iraq’s highest court has temporarily suspended the enforcement of three contentious laws passed by parliament last month, ...

Men of various ages and nationalities sit silently in their cells in a Syrian prison. All are alleged members of the Islamic ...

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

For nearly two decades, Western analysts and policymakers have repeatedly claimed that Iran is on the verge of acquiring ...