Why powerful pro-Tehran militias in Iraq stayed quiet amid Iran conflict. As the U.S. struck Iran, the prospect for retaliation was running high in neighboring Iraq, where American and Iranian ...

When U.S. forces struck three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, concern rippled through the population of neighboring Iraq, where pro-Iranian militias wield much influence and the ...

Tehran can exercise only so much control over its proxies in day-to-day operations. By tying Iran’s fate to an unruly Axis, Khamenei has endangered his country and put it at serious risk of war.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani spoke with militia leaders while the influential Shia leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, waded into the foray as well, pressuring militias to stop the operations.

The United States intended to send a strong message to Iran with strikes against pro-Tehran militia groups in Syria that had targeted American troops – while seeking to avoid a dangerous ...

The secretary general of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades — one of the largest pro-Iranian militias in Iraq — asserts that “Iran does not need military support from anyone to deter the Zionist ...

Several of the Iran-backed militia groups operating in Iraq are set to demilitarize for the first time to avoid conflict with the US following President Trump's threats to Tehran's proxies, senior ...

For the pro-Palestine lobby to take at face value Tehran’s claim to lead an “Axis of Resistance” against Israel is at best naive, and at worst malignant in a way that can only be described ...

Tehran's militias in Iraq appear to be living their last days there. The Houthis are next. After them, Iran will remain with no external forces preventing the fight from reaching its doorstep.