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Somali soccer referee Omar Artan, center, signals a penalty during the CAF Champions League final soccer match between AS FAR...

Tom Barrack, Trump’s envoy for Syria and Iraqi affairs, 2025. Photo: AFP BERLIN,—The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in a...

From right to left: Hadi al-Amiri leader of the Shiite Badr Organisation, Qais Khazali, the founder and leader of Iranian-backed...

Iraq’s pro-Iran armed Shiite group Kataib Hezbollah, Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2024. Photo: Reuters BAGHDAD,— The Iraqi Shiite pro-Iran group...

Iraq's new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, left, was sworn in with partial cabinet, the parliament, Baghdad, Iraq, May 14, 2026....

A Royal Saudi Air Force Typhoon fighter jet in 2010. Photo: Creative Commons/wikimedia RIYADH,— Saudi fighter jets struck targets tied to...

Iraq's deputy oil minister Ali Maarij Al-Bahadly, April 2026. Photo: Bahadly's fb WASHINGTON,— The United States imposed sanctions on Iraq’s...

Iraqi PM-designate Ali al-Zaidi, center, Sulaimani city, Iraqi Kurdistan, May 2, 2026. Photo: Channel8.com WASHINGTON,— The United States is seeking...

Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji, who is also known as Abu Alaa al-Walae, commander of the pro-Iran Shiite Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada...

Iraqi President Nizar Amedi, 2nd left, appoints Ali al-Zaidi, 2nd from right, the candidate of the Shiite Coordination Framework, as...