By Andrea Shalal and Muayad Hameed Suadi WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD, May 14 (Reuters) - Iraqi officials have approached the International Monetary Fund about securing financial assistance as a result of the conflict in the Middle East,

What happened: Saudi jets bombed Iran-backed militia targets in Iraq, while rockets from Kuwait hit militia sites, killing fighters and destroying facilities. Why it matters: The strikes mark deeper Gulf state involvement in the Iran war, risking ...

As President Trump again voiced optimism that Iran will "make a deal" to end the war, Tehran declared itself the regulator of Strait of Hormuz shipping.

Just over six in 10 Americans said in a new Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll, conducted April 24-28, that it was a mistake to use military force against Iran. Similar shares of Americans said that of the Vietnam War in the early 1970s and

A shocking report claims Israel secretly built a covert military base deep inside Iraq’s western desert to support airstrikes and rescue missions during the Iran conflict. According to the Wall Street Journal,

Ipsos poll shows most Americans call the military action a mistake, even as Republicans remain strongly supportive. Many fear the conflict will lead to a recession.

After British troops had beaten German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s tank forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt on November 4, 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”

The former Macomb Township resident was deported to Iraq on Feb. 22, just days before the United States opened war on neighboring Iran. At least five air strikes had rocked his building in the weeks since,