Iraq

President Donald Trump advocated for taking oil as a cost of liberating a country in the chapter “Take The Oil” of his 2011 bestselling book “Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again.”

Russian energy company Lukoil on Monday declared force majeure at West Qurna-2, a huge oilfield in Iraq. The Iraqi government has reportedly halted all payments to Lukoil due to U.S. sanctions imposed in October.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, 38, a Russian-Israeli and Princeton University graduate student, was released from captivity Tuesday evening after being held as a hostage by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq for more than two years.

A verdict was reached this week after the parents of a teenage girl in Lacey, Washington, allegedly targeted their teenage daughter in an “honor killing” attempt. 

French court sentenced seven Afghans and two Iraqis to jail over the fatal capsizing of a boat carrying would-be asylum seekers.

The Iraqi government said at least two of its radar systems were damaged by unidentified drones on Tuesday morning.

Several countries in the Middle East such as Kuwait and Bahrain announced they were closing their airspaces after reports that Iran had fired ballistic missiles at U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq.

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday announced the formation of a Middle East Task Force to support Americans abroad amid rising tensions in the region.

Iran’s Shiite proxies in Iraq are planning massive protests against Israel and demanding Baghdad prevent Israeli planes from passing through Iraqi airspace to attack Iran.

Pakistan on Saturday vowed to “stand behind Iran” against Israeli airstrikes, but indefinitely closed all of its border crossings with Iran on Monday.

Multiple Iraqi militias known to serve as proxies for the Iranian terror regime issued statements this weekend threatening the United States in response to the ongoing military campaign against Iranian leaders by the nation of Israel.

The U.S. is evacuating some diplomatic staff from its embassy in Iraq Wednesday, and allowing families and dependents of diplomats in Bahrain and other locations to return to the U.S., as negotiations with Iran stall. Breitbart News reported earlier Wednesday

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, President Donald Trump’s Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council in the White House, told Breitbart News exclusively about inside details of the operation to capture the mastermind of the Abbey Gate terrorist attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the summer of 2021.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a militant Kurdish separatist organization in Turkey, confirmed Monday it will disband after 40 years of conflict and over 40,000 deaths.

OPEC+ has reportedly begun to “unwind” voluntary production cuts, reducing oil prices to punish recalcitrant members, and perhaps to please President Donald Trump.

DELPHI, Greece — The Deputy Prime Minister of Kurdistan’s Regional Government in Iraq told Breitbart News exclusively that he and the Kurds look at President Donald Trump’s return to the White House as a historic opportunity for deeper business and economic ties between the United States and Kurdistan, as well Iraq as a whole.

A massive dust storm or “haboob” swept across central and southern Iraq on Tuesday, hospitalizing 3,747 people with breathing difficulties according to Iraqi health officials.

The leaders of some of the most powerful Iran-backed terror groups in Iraq, including the notorious Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH), are considering disarming, Reuters reported on Monday, in response to threats of airstrikes from President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump announced that the “fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq” had been killed, adding that United States’ “intrepid warfighters” had “hunted” him down.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist terror group that has been fighting a violent insurgency against the Turkish government since 1984, announced a unilateral ceasefire on Saturday.

Kristersson says security services investigating whether “foreign power” may be behind execution of an Iraqi critic of Islam in Sweden.

Islam critic Salwan Momika shot dead just hours before he was due in court for the Swedish govt’s prosecution of him for burning Qurans.

The Iranian theocracy on Thursday commemorated the fifth anniversary of the death of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the chief terrorist mastermind of the world’s worst state sponsors of terrorism.

Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes.

The year 2024 was not a good one for Iran, which saw much of its proxy army across the Middle East decimated by Israel, its puppet dictator Bashar Assad ousted in Syria, and its old enemy Donald Trump return to the White House.

Iraqi parliamentarian Habib Al-Halawi, leader of the Al-Sadiqoon parliamentary bloc in Iraq, declared in a recent interview that his forces would kill Americans “like we killed this fly,” while invoking the deaths of key figures as a rallying cry for jihad and martyrdom.

The Biden administration has authorized $20 million in taxpayer dollars to create a “Sesame Street” show in Iraq in an effort to “promote inclusion.”

U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking said on Thursday that leaders of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen have decided to keep lower profiles following the devastation of Iran’s other regional proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, at the hands of Israel, followed by the overthrow of Iran’s client Bashar Assad in Syria by a Sunni Islamist insurgency.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), who is President-Elect Donald Trump’s pick to be national security adviser, reacted to the Biden administration granting a sanctions waiver on Iran by stating that “we

The foreign minister of Iran traveled to Baghdad on Friday for a meeting to discuss, alongside his Iraqi and Syrian counterparts, how to address the surging campaign by Sunni jihadists to overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Syrian rebel commander Hassan Abdul Ghany says his forces have begun to penetrate the strategic city of Hama.

Hundreds of Iran-backed Shiite militia fighters from Iraq have reportedly crossed the border into Syria to help dictator Bashar Assad battle a surprise offensive from Islamist insurgents in Aleppo.

In a superficial world where pro athletes and Hollywood actors are sometimes considered heroes, Veterans Day exists to remind us that real heroes wore combat uniforms and kept the USA free.

Former President Donald Trump promised a Gold Star parent that during his “first week” in office, he would establish a “commission” to find answers regarding his son’s death.

An Iran-backed Shiite militia in Iraq launched two drones toward Israel on Friday, one of which was not detected and killed two soldiers at a military base while injuring others. The other drone was detected, intercepted, and destroyed.