For years, the West has oscillated between deterrence and diplomacy. The June war and the economic aftershocks that followed offer a third way: erosion.

Strengthening Iran and Iraq Relations. The latest agreements represent a major milestone in the relationship between Iran and Iraq, both of which are Shiite-majority countries.

Iran’s new foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said in an interview on Monday with an Iraqi television channel, Al Forat, that the president’s trip showed “the depth of our relations” with Iraq.

Iran and Iraq on Wednesday signed more than a dozen agreements to deepen already strong ties as Masoud Pezeshkian visited Baghdad on his first foreign trip as president of the Islamic republic.The ...

In a meeting with Iraqi Minister of Interior Abdul Amir Al-Shammari in Tehran on Tuesday, President Pezeshkian said that Iran ...

The U.S. secretly backed both Iran and Iraq in their 1980s war. ... "Given the turbulent state of Iraqi-Iranian relations from 1958 to 2003, Iran has a vested interest in Iraq's political ...

Iran and Iraq emerged from the 1980-1988 war with no clear victor and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, while U.S.-Iraq relations fractured spectacularly in the years after. An example of ...

* Iran-Iraq relations will continue to be bedeviled by a variety of unresolved issues dating to the Iran-Iraq War and by an Iranian tendency to pursue policies viewed as harmful to Iraqi interests.

Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel to lay down their weapons or join official security forces ...

Iran is nothing like Iraq. Indeed, the failures of the Iraq and Afghanistan adventures shouldn’t hamstring the United States from exerting its legitimate power.

The killing of General Suleimani, intended as a shot against Iran, could accelerate an Iranian objective: pushing the United States military out of Iraq. By Falih HassanTim Arango and Alissa J ...