Iraq’s parliament approved on Monday three more ministers, including the defense and interior portfolios put forward by Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, lawmakers said. But the nominee for minister of education, the only remaining portfolio, failed to get enough votes. Najah...

The new economic sanctions that the United States is preparing to impose on Iran will have no "impact," a spokesman for the Islamic republic's foreign ministry said Monday. "We really do not know what [the new sanctions] are and what they want to target anymore, and also do not consider...

U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to talk to Iran about a deal that would lift American sanctions but Tehran would need to curtain its nuclear and missile program, as well as its support for proxies, a senior U.S. official said Monday. U.S. Special Representative on Iran Brian Hook told...

Saudi Arabia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs warned Iran there would be more sanctions if it continued its "aggressive polices," but said Riyadh wanted to avoid war. "Today, Iran is under severe economic sanctions," Adel al-Jubeir told Le Monde newspaper in an interview published...