BAGHDAD/LONDON (Reuters) - When the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Shi‘ite militia entered a key oil processing facility in Iraq’s north to retake it from Kurdish Peshmerga forces last week, the installation was deserted and its alarm bells ringing. Engineers and workers on the...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran’s defense capabilities are not negotiable, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday in remarks made previously but which now come amid increased pressure from the U.S. government over Tehran’s ballistic missile program. Ties between Iran and the...

NEW DELHI: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that US sanctions against Iran targeted the country's "malign behaviors" and were aimed at helping the Iranian people take control of their government. Tillerson told a New Delhi press conference after talks with India's Foreign...

 Iraqi forces are about to launch an offensive to recapture the last patch of Iraq's territory still in the hands of Daesh (ISIS), a military statement said on Wednesday. "Your security forces are now coming to liberate you," said leaflets dropped by the Iraqi air force on the...