Since Iran is in the news and since Hazrat Ali’s birthday, or Wiladat-e-Maula Ali, fell on January 2 this year in India, I ...

KDP nominated Shakhawan Abdullah for Deputy Speaker as the Iraqi Parliament convened. Sunni divisions persist over the ...

Iraq’s top leadership is divided along sectarian lines, with the president being Kurdish and the prime minister usually a Shi ...

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Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances that will shape the next government. The November election didn’t produce a ...

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Vote for Zohran, not the moron. Andrew Cuomo greets Zohran Mamdani before a mayoral debate at Rockefeller Center, on October 16, 2025 in New York City. Andrew Cuomo started his political life ...

BAGHDAD — Sunni Arab participation in a new government will not be enough to persuade Islamic extremists and Saddam Hussein loyalists to abandon the insurgency, the country's most powerful Shiite ...

KARBALA, Iraq (Reuters) -Majid al-Kareem is poorly equipped for his 500 km pilgrimage by foot through the scorching deserts of southern Iraq. He wears sandals and black clothes that absorb the heat, ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni Muslims from across central Iraq, alarmed by how easily Shiite Muslim fighters had attacked their mosques during last week's clashes, said Monday that they were sending weapons ...

Clashes between local militias and clans in Syria’s Sweida province have killed more than 30 people and injured nearly 100, and government forces were being sent to the area to restore order, ...