Salih Barham

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Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a meeting with Iranian judiciary officials in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday. Photograph: Iran government handout/EPA
Ordinary Iranians pay a heavy price as tensions soar in Gulf

The latest round of US sanctions on senior Iranian figures could finish off the remote possibility of talks between Tehran and Washington. Experts a(...)

Close ties: Iraq’s prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in Baghdad. Photograph: EPA/Ahmed Jalil
Iran signs new trade and energy deals with Iraq

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani will conclude his first official visit to Iraq on Wednesday after signing agreements on energy, trade and the constru(...)

US resident Donald Trump at a rally at Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq in December. Photograph: Al Drago/New York Times
Trump’s troop moves in Syria and Iraq could play into hands of Isis

US president Donald Trump’s declarations on the future of US forces in Syria and Iraq could jeopardise the ongoing campaign against Islamic State remn(...)

US president Donald Trump speaks to the Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat Isis at the US state department in Washington on Wednesday. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Trump says US may declare Isis defeated next week
  • US
  • February 7, 2019, 15:49

US president Donald Trump has said he expected a formal announcement as early as next week that the coalition fighting Islamic State militants has rec(...)