As the U.S. struck Iran, the prospect for retaliation was running high in neighboring Iraq, where American and Iranian ...

Further, the home-based Iraqi Shia militias are already on record as saying they will attack bases and personnel if the United States were to join in Israel's war with Iran, which has now happened ...

There are at least 2,500 American personnel stationed in Iraq, and the US has major interests here, as it does across the Middle East and Gulf states.

Muqtada al-Sadr reiterated his bloc will boycott Iraq’s Nov. 2025 elections unless militias are dismantled and power returned ...

Since Saddam’s downfall, Iran has helped empowering Iraqi Shias. So why their leaders are not backing it in conflict with ...

The logo of Kataib Imam Ali. The US Treasury Department added Kataib Imam Ali (the “Imam Ali Brigades”) to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists on June 12, 2025. Kataib Imam Ali is one ...

Tensions in Iraq have grown in the wake of the Israeli attack on Iran on June 12. Pro-Iranian Iraqi militias have increased their threats against US forces and held rallies against the US presence in ...

By Tyler Arnold Allies of the new Syrian government and other non-state actors have continued violence and discrimination ...

When United States forces struck three Iranian nuclear facilities last Sunday, concern rippled through the population of ...