From Riyadh’s perspective, this was to be payback for Iran’s swift rise in influence in Iraq after the US deposed Saddam Hussein and for the establishment of a Shia-dominated government in Baghdad. . ... Tensions rose during this period because of Iran’s support of Hezbollah..…
BRUSSELS — The head of NATO mission Iraq insists that the recent increase in tension between the US and Iran has not hampered the alliance's work in the country.. NATO mission aims to train Iraqi forces and improve military education centers to try to avoid repeat of 2014, when Islamic..…
A career foreign service officer, he also served as director for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs, deputy chief of mission in Embassy Cairo, director for Near East Affairs on the National Security Council, and director for Northern Gulf Affairs (Iraq and Iran) during Operation Desert..…
Israel and Clash of Civilisations Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake Middle East and. ..…
KDP and PUK Exchange Recriminations Ammar al-Hakim Threats to Oppose Government Iraq Continues Mediating Between Iran and Gulf States On June, Iraqi President Barham Salih met with German, French and UK ambassadors Baghdad. ... On June 3, that Iraq had opposed the concluding..…
'This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.' ... The Ashraf-3 facility will be used to plan the infiltration and destabilization of Iran. ..…
The Imminent Iran- Syria Divorce, Trumpet stated that Iran's Syria is part of its goal to control Shia Crescent — land stretching from Iran and Iraq to Syria and Lebanon on the west coast.. ..…
So, what we are facing is, essentially, war that has no frontlines, total chaos, engulfs the region, is not contained within Iran or Iraq except would extend to Syria and Lebanon and Israel across the region, setting us up in situation where, Iraq, we lost over 4,000 of my brothers and..…
Although Saddam Hussein has been portrayed as a mad dictator by US presidents and media outlets alike, he had his reasons for invading Kuwait, which had been a district of Iraq under Ottoman rule. Iraq fought Iran in a brutal eight-year war from 1980-1988, the US actually supplied..…