U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Tuesday and met Iraq’s prime minister and other top officials to discuss the safety of Americans in Iraq and explain U.S. security concerns amid rising Iranian activity. The visit came two days after U.S. national...

Iran may announce retaliatory moves against the United States on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. pullout from the nuclear deal Wednesday, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The U.S. unilaterally withdrew on May 8, 2018 from the 2015 multilateral deal known as the Joint...

The United States said Sunday it is deploying a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East in response to troubling "indications and warnings" from Iran and to show it will retaliate with "unrelenting force" to any attack. With tensions already high between Washington and Tehran, a...

Russian air strikes on an underground hospital in the jihadist-held Syrian province of Idlib on Sunday forced the closure of the facility, a medical organisation and war monitor said. The hospital on the outskirts of Hass, in the south of Idlib province, was hit by air strikes, in an attack...