Here’s a look at the life of the late former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Personal:Birth date: April 28, 1937 Death date: December 30, 2006 Birth place: Tikrit, Iraq Birth name: Saddam Hussein Abd ...

Afghan and Pakistani militants who fought alongside the Syrian regime have relocated to Iraq, sparking security concerns and ...

Generally speaking, starting a war out of the blue is a bad idea. This is the lesson, if such was needed, of the utterly ...

First gas deliveries to start on 1 March and will be sent via Iran, but long-term growth in supplies expected to require new ...

John Quincy Adams famously warned against the US going abroad in search of “monsters to destroy,” but while claiming to ...

The United States of America has maintained some degree of military presence ever since March 19, 2003, when the Iraq War, ...

In early 2025 Iran and Pakistan agreed to cooperate on economic, diplomatic and military matters. Each country has different definitions of these items. While both nations border Afghanistan, Iran has ...

Syria is fractured by competing armies but who holds power and where may be shifting as the US eyes an exit.

Hezbollah has told Newsweek it rejected the Israeli military's recent claims that an elite Iranian unit was illicitly using ...

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ELLIOTT ABRAMS is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served in senior positions ...

Compensations by OPEC+ ‘debtors’ in January were expected at 120,000 bpd of oil from Iraq and 65,000 bpd from Kazakhstan, according to the latest released schedule ...