Last week, near the town of al Batha in Iraq, a truck heading north on the main road between Basra and Baghdad was hit by an explosive device.
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Popular Mobilization Forces – Involved In
A growing challenge for Iraq – Iran-aligned Shiite militias
It was a stark message: A convoy of masked Shiite militiamen, armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, drove openly through central Baghdad denouncing the US presence in Iraq ...
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The U.S. should harbor no illusions about Iran
Before he became president, Joe Biden spent decades seeking reconciliation in the Middle East. By his second term as vice president, his frustration with feuding nations and factions was ...
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Iran saved Assad and is now trying to convert Syria to Shiism
Former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad’s Baath Party regime was the first to recognize, and offer legitimacy to, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Islamic revolution in Iran. But Assad was careful to ...
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Why Brazil matters to Iran’s efforts to counter international isolation
Brazil has long been an important strategic trade partner for Iran in Latin America, but there has always been more to the relationship than meets the eye
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Dissidents urge Iran to release female political prisoners
Leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) called on the UN to intervene and release two women whose families have been the targets of violence and ...
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