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

"Hatred cannot be the path," says Amirali Navaee as he gets ready to world premiere his debut feature film at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

"Atropia," a satire of the Iraq War and military contractors' efforts to prepare soldiers to fight overseas, was one of the big winners at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival's awards ceremony.

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 ...

And in 2024 came Reading Lolita in Tehran, directed by Eran Riklis, who is Israeli, and adapted from a book by an Iranian author, with an almost entirely Iranian cast. The film premiered at the Rome ...

A close ally of Iran's Supreme Leader appeared to call for ... strike ordered by Trump after arriving at Baghdad airport in Iraq on January 3rd, 2020. Following the attack, Trump told a press ...

The Federal Government of Iraq aims to unify the country under its control by ending Kurdistan's independence and controlling all oil and gas production and revenue. The ongoing oil embargo and ...

Iran has also been in the process of developing strike drones as far back as the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. While fears of a war between Israel and Iran have been a long-running undercurrent of ...

Iraq has passed a law that would legalise the marriage of children as young as nine. Three divisive laws have now been passed which give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters ...

“Obviously a war between Iran and Israel, any war in our region is something we should try to avoid as much as possible,” Prince Faisal said during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting ...

The top Saudi diplomat on Tuesday played down fears that the incoming Trump administration was looking for war with Iran and called on Tehran to engage with the US to address the issue of its ...