Maysan Provincial Council head Mustafa Da’ir al-Muhammadawi threatened to declare civil disobedience and seek to separate the province from Iraq in protest against the closure of the Shib border crossing with Iran.

The Tehran meeting aimed to prevent regional conflict and strengthen security cooperation, with its success depending largely on Iran’s ability to stop Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia.

Iran’s decision to rename Quds Force secret unit 840 as Unit 600 and appoint a new commander raises questions about Tehran’s ability to rebuild its overseas operations network after a series of intelligence breaches and assassinations.

Tehran may have lost the spy game, but has it truly lost the war? Behind the shadow of intelligence failures lies an ironclad apparatus that refuses to let the state crack.

Iraq’s ban on Iranian flights has spiraled into a sovereignty clash, exposing Baghdad’s precarious balancing act between U.S. sanctions and Tehran’s influence

Iraq faces growing economic, financial, energy, and political pressure as U.S. sanctions on Iran tighten, forcing Baghdad to balance its deep dependence on Iranian trade and gas with its reliance on the U.S.-led financial system, risking that Iraq itself will ultimately bear the heaviest cost of the confrontation.

The choice of Iraqi Shiite leader Hammam Hamoudi as a “link” between Iran and Iraq was no passing development, given that he belongs to a generation of Shiite leaders whose political and organizational careers were shaped in Iran before they returned to Baghdad after Saddam Hussein’s regime fell in 2003.

What is happening in Yemen today is an actual war being fought across multiple fronts, on land, at sea, and in the air, yet it remains an undeclared war among the parties to the conflict.

Since the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran erupted in late February 2026, followed by Iranian strikes on American bases across the Gulf, Western intelligence leaks and media reports have repeatedly pointed to an Emirati role in coordinating with “Israel.”

A petition by a group of prominent Jordanian political figures calling for the removal of foreign troops from Jordan continues to fuel fierce debate.

Just days after Iraqi PM Ali al-Zaidi returned from a 5-day official visit to the U.S. where he met Trump and signed dozens of economic agreements, Ali Akbar Velayati, the Iranian supreme leader's senior adviser on international affairs, denounced the trip as "a badge of shame."

Trump has thrust one of Iran's most secretive nuclear sites into the center of his war on the country after warning on July 14, 2026, that the U.S. could destroy Pickaxe Mountain, saying U.S. forces were closely monitoring the site and warning that it could soon become a military target.

Field movements suggest that Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s internationally recognized government are raising their level of preparedness for a possible new round of fighting against the Houthis, amid growing U.S. political and military support.

As a new wave of U.S. strikes on Iran intensifies, Donald Trump has once again hinted at what could be described as the “Kurdish card,” without naming it directly.

Iraqi PM Ali al-Zaidi has placed himself at the center of a high-stakes political and security test after pledging to President Donald Trump that he would disarm the country's militias and dismantle what is known as the "resistance" within two months.