Iraq is one of Iran’s last allies in the region, and Iran wants to show its clout in Iraq and pressure Baghdad.

Sobchak is a retired Army Special Forces Colonel ... one that was clear even before the war. Iraq provided a physical and practical buffer to Iran, a country that few disputed had an active ...

Esmail Qaani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, arrived in Iraq on May 14 and met with Iraqi ...

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The Iran-Iraq War became one of the bloodiest conflicts ... White House weeks after Signal chat fiasco Trump Wants a New Air Force One So Badly He’s Refurbishing a Qatari Plane New US Army ...

Iraq invaded Iran on ... Thus, for Saddam Hussein, the war's purpose was pre-emptive: to overthrow the Khomeini regime before that regime could overthrow him. He believed that Iran was in turmoil and ...

Some have called Iran’s policy one of “managed chaos”—enough instability to eject U.S. forces from Iraq but not enough to engulf Iraq’s neighbors in a wider sectarian war. Michael ...

U.S. forces battled Iranian-backed groups in Iraq and Syria from late October to February. The Iranian proxies began firing at American bases following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza ...

In a surprise move, the most powerful Iran-backed militia in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, announced on Tuesday the suspension of its military operations against US forces ... of the war in Gaza ...

The Iran-Iraq war erupted on Sept. 22, 1980 when the forces of then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Iran. The conflict, which was economically devastating and left at least half a million ...

Azimi also said the exercises would test the capabilities of Iran's Basij paramilitary forces, who are tasked with maintaining domestic security. The war games ... and includes air, ground and ...

In April 1915, the German army tried a new tactic to break through allied trenches on the front lines of World War I: the first large-scale use of poison gas. It was a devastating attack on the ...