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Washington’s policy toward Iraq has been consistently focused on and committed to a unified Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. America has poured billions of dollars and thousands...

THE last several months have brought a dramatic escalation in conflict across the Middle East, almost all of it involving tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims — which are in turn...

You say the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is attacking the Iraqi city of Ramadi? Stay calm. We’ve got it covered. Vice President Biden assured the Iraqi prime minister last...

As if the Mideast weren’t troubled enough, we now learn from Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times that Saudi Arabia has apparently “taken the ‘strategic decision’ to acquire ‘off-the-shelf’...

The Islamic State’s takeover of Ramadi on Sunday highlights an uncomfortable truth about the group’s offensives across large parts of Iraq in the last year: the largesse of US arms...

For months, President Obama has been trying to find a way to silence Israeli objections to a nuclear deal with Iran. Up until now, Prime Minister Netanyahu has been adamant in his...

On April 27, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Maj. Gen., Mohammad Ali Jafari lashed out at Saudi Arabia and its recent military intervention in Yemen,...