"Maybe this will be the next fall in the domino effect of this regime," a former Israeli intelligence officer told Newsweek.

Mission Support Site Green Village, H2 and Mission Support Site Euphrates, sometimes referred to as the Conoco gas field.

Iraq’s prime minister has kept the country on the sidelines as military conflicts raged nearby for almost two years.

Saddam’s 1991 invasion of Kuwait invited a slow-motion U.S. takeover of Iraq, removing him from power in 2003. The 2011 Arab Spring weakened Assad, who finally fell in 2024. Iran’s proxy war ...

US currently maintains 19 facilities across the region, with at least 8 reported to be permanent, across Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria & UAE.

Her work has taken her to 40 countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Afghanistan. She is a recipient of the 2024 Knight-Wallace Fellowship for Journalism.

Meanwhile, House Democratic leaders are backing away from a proposal to scale back U.S. involvement in Iraq by withholding money for the war effort. Rice, in announcing the "neighbors meeting" on Iraq ...

The anti-Islamic State coalition of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve received its new commander at a ceremony in Iraq on July 21, 2025. Brigadier General Kevin Lambert took over ...

Many remember the crisis caused by Syria’s civil war, which saw 6m refugees leave. So far the exodus from Iran has been tiny, but that could change.