Iranian leader’s tears a sign of respect for slain general
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — In a rare display of emotion from the typically reserved and measured supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cri...
Merkel to meet Putin in Moscow for talks on Mideast crises
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Moscow on Saturday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid growing tensions in the ...
Asian countries brace to evacuate workers in Iraq, Iran
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the military to prepare to deploy its aircraft and ships “at any moment’s notice” t...
Iraq vote, Hezbollah threat leveled at US troops in Mideast
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military presence in the Middle East was thrown into jeopardy Sunday, as Iraq's parliament voted to expel U.S. troops from their co...
Blowback: Iran abandons nuclear limits after US killing
TEHRAN, Iran — The blowback over the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general mounted Sunday as Iran announced it will no longer abide by the limits cont...
The Latest: Baghdad residents say 3 blasts hit Green Zone
BEIRUT — The latest on U.S.-Iran tensions (all times local):
UK’s Johnson: Iranian general ‘threat to all our interests’
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Iranian general killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq was “a threat to all our interests” ...
Protests across US condemn action in Iran and Iraq
WASHINGTON — Demonstrators in dozens of cities around the U.S. gathered Saturday to protest the Trump administration's killing of an Iranian general a...
Rockets fired after day of mourning for slain Iranian leader
BAGHDAD — Thousands of militiamen and other supporters chanting “America is the Great Satan” marched in a funeral procession Saturday in Baghdad for I...
Iran general steps out of Soleimani’s shadow to lead proxies
TEHRAN, Iran — A new Iranian general has stepped out of the shadows to lead the country's expeditionary Quds Force, becoming responsible for Tehran's ...
Iran vows revenge for US attack that killed powerful general
BAGHDAD — Iran promised to seek revenge for a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed the mastermind of its interventions across the Middle ...
Oil prices surge, stocks fall after US kills Iranian general
Stocks fell broadly and oil prices surged after a U.S. strike killed a top Iranian general in Iraq, raising tensions in the Middle East. The selling e...
US long watched Soleimani, but feared risks of a strike
WASHINGTON — In 2007, U.S. commandos watched as a convoy carrying a powerful Iranian military leader made its way to northern Iraq.
Iran’s popular Gen. Soleimani became an icon by targeting US
TEHRAN, Iran — For Iranians whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Gen. Qassem Soleimani was a popular figure of natio...
Oil prices surge, stocks slip after US kills Iran general
BEIJING — Oil prices surged and most major global stock markets declined Friday after an Iranian general was killed by U.S. forces in Iraq.
Iran can call on powerful friends if conflict engulfs region
JERUSALEM — If Iran decides to follow through on its vow of harsh retaliation for the killing of its top general, it can call upon heavily armed allie...
Iraqi militant killed by US worked with Iran for decades
BAGHDAD — Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a veteran Iraqi militant who was closely allied with Iran and rose to be a senior militia commander during the war ag...
US kills Iran’s most powerful general in Baghdad airstrike
BAGHDAD — The United States killed Iran's top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad's interna...
Attack on US Embassy exposes widening US-Iraq divide on Iran
WASHINGTON — The New Year's Eve attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad has exposed a deepening divide between the United States and Iraq over ...
Militiamen withdraw from US Embassy but Iraq tensions linger
BAGHDAD — Iran-backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday after two days of clashes with American security forc...
Trump deploys more troops to Mideast after US embassy attack
WASHINGTON — Charging that Iran was “fully responsible” for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldi...
Attack on US Embassy in Iraq shows stark choices for Trump
WASHINGTON — The attack on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad by Iran-supported militiamen Tuesday is a stark demonstration that Iran can still stri...
Protesters attack US Embassy in Baghdad after airstrikes
BAGHDAD — Angered by deadly airstrikes targeting an Iran-backed militia, dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Em...
AP Explains: Who are Iraq’s Iran-backed militias?
Iran emerged as a major power broker in Iraq after the American invasion in 2003, supporting Shiite Islamist parties and militias that have dominated ...
US strikes hit Iraqi militia blamed in contractor’s death
WASHINGTON — The U.S. carried out military strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed ...
Buttigieg critiques Biden’s ‘judgment’ on Iraq War vote
KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Sunday called former Vice President Joe Biden’s vote to authorize the Iraq War p...
Iraqi artists pay tribute to dead protesters with sculptures
BAGHDAD — The sculptures carved by seven art trainees were lined up outside a makeshift workshop in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. With them were posters de...
US contractor killed in Iraq rocket attack, troops wounded
WASHINGTON — A U.S. defense contractor was killed and several American and Iraqi troops were wounded Friday in a rocket attack in northern Iraq, U.S. ...
Iran-backed groups accuse Iraqi president of caving to US
BAGHDAD — Iran-supported groups on Friday blasted Iraq's president for not naming their preferred prime minister candidate, saying his decision was at...
Iraq president offers to quit after rejecting PM nominee
BAGHDAD — Iraq's president refused on Thursday to designate a prime minister candidate nominated by the Iran-backed parliamentary bloc and offered to ...