Iran will reopen all its border crossings with Iraq’s Kurdistan region in the coming days, lifting restrictions imposed after last month’s Kurdish vote in favor of independence, its chief of staff said on Monday. The …
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Gulf affairs Thamer al-Sabhan has said Iran’s media propaganda arm is aiming to stop the recent rapprochement between Riyadh and Baghdad by spreading what he called fake news, al-Arabiya …
Saudi Arabia reiterated that Iran seeks to distract the world’s attention from its dire human rights situation through the creation of chaos and destabilization of regional security and stability and the spreading of discourse of hatred …
Lebanese engineer detained in Iran, Nizar Zakka, informed the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on his continued psychological torture and his appalling detention in a telephone conversation on Thursday, Asharq Al-Awsat reports. In September 2015, …
Iraq will keep close ties with the U.S. and Iran even as tensions rise between the two, but warned them both away from competing on Iraq’s turf reclaimed from the retreating forces of Islamic State and the Kurds, …
Iran opened a border crossing with the Kurdistan region of Iraq Wednesday which was closed after a referendum on independence, Iranian state media reported as quoted by Arab News. The decision comes on the same day as …
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s recent remarks provoked a wave of angry reactions in Lebanon. Political leaders in the March 14 Forces emphasized that his positions reflected a “colonial project that would destroy the sovereignty of …
Iraq has become the newest front in the struggle for primacy between Saudi Arabia and Iran, with Riyadh mounting a determined bid to lure Baghdad out of Tehran’s orbit. But given the sheer magnitude of …
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Quds commander Qassem Soleimani have spoiled an American-Israel plot to create a second Israel in the Kurdistan Region, chief of staff of Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Tuesday as …
The Iranian consulate in Erbil has condemned protests outside its mission in the Kurdish capital on Friday, Kurdish media network Rudaw reports. The Iranian flag was taken down during the rally. The protest occurred as Kurdish …
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