With momentum on its side, Turkey is making a big diplomatic push in Iraq. That puts it on a potential collision course with Iran. The post Iraq Could Be the Next Arena for Turkey and Iran's Rivalry appeared first on World Politics Review.

Shara’s unlikely path from membership in Al Qaeda to head of state has raised questions about how he intends to govern Syria.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani has received an invitation to visit Iraq with the date to be determined later after consultations on the agenda, Syria's state news agency SANA said on Friday.

Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid delivered a speech at the 2025 Erbil Forum on Wednesday, addressing the pressing political and security developments in the region and highlighting Iraq’s role as a regional stabilizer.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani agreed during a call Tuesday to work "quickly" to reopen the Iraq-Türkiye pipeline, according to the State Department.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is piling pressure on Iraq to allow Kurdish oil exports to restart or face sanctions alongside Iran, eight sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Top U.S. and Iraqi officials on Tuesday discussed Iranian influence in the region, the need for Iraq to be energy independent and U.S.

The airstrike in Syria's Idlib province killed a "senior finance and logistics official" from the militant group Hurras al-Din.

The Ministry of National Defense announced on Thursday that 31 members of the PKK were eliminated in operations in northern Iraq and Syria over the

At least 31 terrorists were "neutralized" in counterterrorism operations in northern Iraq and Syria over the past week, the Turkish National Defense Ministry announced Thursday. A total of 308 terrorists have been neutralized since Jan. 1, 2025, the ministry spokesman, Zeki Akturk, told reporters at a briefing in the capital, Ankara.

US assistance for camps in Syria that house Islamic State-linked families “cannot last forever,” acting US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea told the UN on February 12. The spotlight on the camps comes as the Islamic State continues to pose a threat,

A Turkish opposition party delegation has arrived in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region against the backdrop of peace efforts between Ankara and a banned Kurdish separatist movement in Turkey.