1. Sir Winston Peres
(Opinions/Features)

...ant: Iran is not an aggressive country. It has not attacked its neighbors for centuries. The long and bloody Iraq-Iran war was started by Saddam Hussein. It may be remembered that at the time Israel (...

2. Shaping another U.S. Foreign Policy Misadventure
(Opinions/Features)

...etray the beliefs in Islam. Add to the mix, Saudi Arabia's support of Iran's foes; Saddam Hussein during the Iraq-Iran war and the Taliban of the late 1990s, and hostility between the nations is more ...

3. Bringing Iraq and Iran Closer Together
(Opinions/Politic)

Amidst all the hoopla over whether the surge in Iraq has been a success, Americans might have missed the latest development in the Iraq mess — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s historic and much

4. Open Letter to the Government from an AWOL Soldier
(Editor/Letters)

... millions of Iraqi men, women and children who have suffered through the Dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, The Iraq-Iran War, The Gulf War, Depleted Uranium, Years of Illegal Sanctions, Shock and Awe, &...

5. Political Islam vs. Democracy
(Opinions/Politic)

The Bush Administration's Deadly Waltz with Shiite Theocrats in Iraq and Muslim Brotherhood Fanatics in Syria, Egypt, and Elsewhere Nearly three years into the war in Iraq, the Bush administration tel

6. Country profile: Kuwait
(Archived/News/SReports)

Arguably, most people outside the region would have known little about Kuwait before Iraq's 1990 invasion and the seven-month occupation that led to the first Gulf war in 1991.

7. Profile: Tariq Aziz
(Archived/News/SReports)

Tariq Aziz, the former foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Iraq, was for many years regarded by the West as the face of the former Baghdad government and the special representative of its f

8. Iraq assures Iran over US pact
(Archived/News/Arab)

Iraq has sought to ease Iranian fears over a proposed US-Iraq security deal, reassuring Tehran that the pact will not be a danger to Iran.

9. Turkish troops could re-enter Iraq
(Archived/News/Global)

Turkish officials have said that troops may launch another incursion into northern Iraq to battle fighters belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

10. Ahmadinejad to make first Iraq trip
(Archived/News/Arab)

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is due in Baghdad on March 2 for talks with Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, and other officials.