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Iraq

Members of the Iraqi security forces set up a security perimeter outside the entrance of a Shiite mosque in the Baladiyat district of the capital Baghdad on June 21, 2019. (AFP)

Suicide blast at Shia mosque in Baghdad kills two: police sources

US

Qatari officials (C) take part in a meeting between the US (L) and Taliban (R) delegations in Doha, February 26. (AFP)

US, Iran wishful thinking over the Taliban

Khamenei

An Iranian woman holds a poster of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini (L) during a rally in Tehran. (AP)

Khamenei’s 30 years of revolution: What legacy?

Iraq

A 2018 file picture shows Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (C) visiting his father’s grave in Najaf. (Reuters)

Splits in Sadrist camp expose fault lines

Iran

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi (R) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a meeting in Baghdad, May 8. (AFP)

Will Iraq find itself caught in the middle of a US-Iran showdown

US

A view of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, New York, one of the sites Hezbollah member Ali Kourani reportedly surveyed for attack. (AFP)

Hezbollah member convicted in US for planning attacks

US

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan walk at the US Embassy compound toward the heli pad to catch a helicopter that will transport them to the International Airport, in Baghdad, Iraq, January 9, 2019. (Reuters)

US orders non-emergency embassy staff to leave Baghdad, Erbil

US

Warmed over. A 2013 file picture shows tug boats assisting the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) as it pulls away from the pier at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. (Reuters)

Iran crossing the line from bravado to absurdity

US

A Hezbollah supporter attends a rally in Beirut. (Reuters)

Iran’s proxies know their limits as next front line of showdown with US

Mamoon Alabbasi