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US

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks during a joint press conference in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on December 11, 2018. (AFP)

US energy secretary discusses oil production with Saudi Arabia, Iraq

Iraq

A general view showing the MI6 building in London. (AP)

The tortured ‘truth’ of the Iraq war keeps surfacing

Tallha Abdulrazaq

Iraq

In harm’s way. Iraqi journalist Karrar Habeeb (R) while reporting in the southern city of Basra. (Azhar Al-Rubaie)

Journalism under threat in Iraq’s south

Azhar Al-Rubaie

Iran Sanctions

Tug of war. An Iraqi vendor sells Iranian currency in a street in Najaf. (AFP)

Iran sanctions are testing US relations with Iraq

Gregory Aftandilian

Yemen

A displaced Syrian boy bites on a plastic bowl at the Ain Issa camp. (AFP)

Helping refugee children cope with a harsh winter

Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif leaves after a meeting with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at the EU Council in Brussels, Belgium, May 15, 2018. (Reuters)

Europe is betting on Iran at expense of Iraq

Iraq

Iranian President Hassan Rohani (R) speaks during a joint news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Barham Salih at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, on November 17. (Iranian Presidency)

Baghdad torn between Tehran’s pressures and US sanctions

Iraq

Nisr al-Sahara gun shop in Baghdad. (Oumayma Omar)

Gun shops thrive in Baghdad further aggravating insecurity

Middle East

Syrian children wait to leave their refugee camp in the Lebanese city of Arsal, last July. (AFP)

Refugee crisis poses long-term threats to the Middle East