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The appearance of the Wuhan coronavirus in Iran is causing a great deal of anxiety in the region and producing some immediate negative effects as trade across Iran’s borders shuts down. The Kurdistan Region experienced a bout of petrol panic on Monday as rumors of an impending fuel shortage spread, even though the authorities said there has been no significant supply disruption to date.

A soldier deployed in Iraq helped policemen stop two alleged burglars after he saw them outside his home in Park Ridge, Illinois, on Friday.

Paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division who deployed to the Middle East in January amid a crisis with Iran arrived home on Thursday.

A group of Iraqi women joined ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on Thursday — a daring exercise given both cultural stigmas against women participating in politics and the proclivity of Iran-backed Shiite militia thugs and Iraqi government security forces for murdering demonstrators.

The Pentagon on Monday afternoon updated its numbers on how many U.S. service members suffered from mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) after Iran fired ballistic missiles at an Iraqi base where they were stationed.

The Iraqi capital of Baghdad experienced snowfall for the first time in over a decade on Tuesday, in what meteorologists claim is the biggest snowfall in the Middle Eastern country for the past century. 

Pope Francis met with six Catholic patriarchs from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq on Friday to discuss Christian persecution in the region as well as their mass emigration from the Middle East.

Family members of troops who deployed to the Middle East amid tensions in Iran have been told by leadership their loved ones are redeploying home.

A U.K. woman who as a teenager ran away to join ISIS lost a legal challenge Friday aimed at restoring her citizenship.

Defiant protesters continue to fill the streets of Iraq despite attacks from security forces and Iran-backed militias that may have killed 550 demonstrators, according to the Iraqi Commission for Human Rights (ICHR).

President Donald Trump honored the family of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq during his State of the Union speech Tuesday, assuring them that the “evil reign of terror” of the man responsible for the murder, Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani, was over.

The Pentagon released an updated number of United States service members who have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

With less than one week before the Iowa caucuses, the establishment media is zeroing in on former Vice President Joe Biden and the culture of corruption that has permeated his immediate family for decades.

A group of French jihadists, who have been sentenced to death, have decried their treatment in an Iraqi prison, claiming that they have been subjected to “torture” and “humiliation”.

Peter Schweizer explained how his latest book was titled, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite.

Reuters filed an exclusive report on Monday citing three “senior Western security officials” who blamed a recent wave of cyberattacks in Europe and the Middle East on “hackers acting in the interests of the Turkish government.”

A barrage of rocket fire targeted Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Sunday, hitting part of the U.S. embassy complex in that country. Saudi Arabia’s al-Arabiya news agency noted that the American compound “has been regularly hit by rockets in recent months.”

The George Soros-funded organization Vote Vets, which purports to stand for veterans but is a leftist organization, is twisting comments made by Sen. Tom Cotton.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Saturday urged Iraqi President Barham Saleh to guarantee the safety of Christians and ensure they have a future place in the war-battered country.

I am a veteran of the United States Army. I served two tours in the Middle-East, including one in Iraq. I’m proud of my service and America. And I am terrified of what will become of our beloved military and our national security if any of the Democrats I saw take the debate stage last Tuesday night become America’s Commander-In-Chief.

Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr arranged a sizable anti-American demonstration in Baghdad on Friday, putting his followers on the streets alongside ongoing protests against corruption and the excessive political influence of Iran.

Iran’s state-run PressTV media outlet repeated its claims on Wednesday of widespread American casualties after Tehran launched a ballistic missile assault on Iraqi airbases this month, accusing the Pentagon of “taking advantage” of the Senate impeachment trial to hide the injuries.

Joe Biden’s family’s businesses include dealings in China, Costa Rica, Iraq, Russia, and Ukaine, explained Peter Schweizer to Breitbart News.

The new leader of the Islamic State has reportedly been identified by multiple intelligence services as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, a founding member of the terror state who played a major role in the oppression and near-genocide of the Yazidis.

Incensed Iraqi Kurdish officials last week hit back at taunts from Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who lashed out at former Iraqi Kurdistan Region (KRG) President Masoud Barzani and Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

Police clashed with protesters in Baghdad on Monday after a few comparatively quiet days, resulting in 14 security troops suffering injuries from thrown rocks and complaints of excessive force leveled against police by the protesters.

An obese Islamic State (ISIS) “mufti” was captured from his hiding place by elite Iraqi SWAT team members before being arrested on Thursday.

Iranian state television on Thursday broadcast a segment that included a crank phone call to C-SPAN by an apparent Iranian operative who pretended to be the father of a missing U.S. service member.

Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that through a variety of actions as U.S. commander-in-chief and leader of the free world, President Donald Trump has demonstrated that he “leads from a standpoint of strength.”

The Pentagon’s Central Command confirmed late Thursday that 11 American troops showed symptoms of concussions strong enough to be flown out of Iraq following an Iranian ballistic missile attack that President Donald Trump claimed left no casualties. Iranian state media claimed the regime’s attack killed 80 Americans.

President Hassan Rouhani echoed Iranian state propaganda Thursday with his claim that American soldiers had “retreated” in the Middle East following an Iranian missile attack that caused no American casualties and negligible property damage last week.

NEW DELHI (AP) – Iran’s top diplomat acknowledged Wednesday that Iranians “were lied to” for days following the Islamic Republic accidentally shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing 176 people, as the country’s president warned that European soldiers in the Mideast “could be in danger” after three nations challenged Tehran over breaking limits of its nuclear deal.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said during the Democrat debate on Tuesday that there was a difference between “combat troops” and “Special Forces.” “There’s a difference between combat troops and leaving special forces in position,” he said when discussing what

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, on Sunday called for attacks against American forces to avenge the death of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who he described as a friend to Shiite forces in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen as well as Lebanon.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that during a phone conversation earlier that day with Iraq’s ambassador to the United States, the ambassador described what sounded like “a process being set in place to

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday morning he was “outraged” by reports of a rocket attack on the al-Balad airbase, located 50 miles north of Baghdad.