The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Jordan, reinforced the link between Syria's stability and Iraq’s security. Click here to see the full ...

Jordan and Iraq agreed Monday to back efforts aimed at supporting Syria’s security and stability following the downfall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. This came during a meeting held in Amman ...

Russia and Iran, Assad ... Tehran to Beirut through Iraq and Syria has been severed; the corridor of power now runs north to south, from Turkey through Syria into Jordan and the Sunni Arab ...

King Abdullah II of Jordan ... militias in Iraq. In January, Kataib Hezbollah killed three Americans at a site called Tower 22 in eastern Jordan. The US also has backed a Syrian rebel group ...

Aqaba (Jordan ... Syrian rebels ended a half-century of rule by the Assad clan, a major ally of Iran. A US official said Blinken told Sudani that Iran was at its weakest in some time and that Iraq ...

In the final days leading to his ouster, Syrian President ... to Damascus had allowed Iran to spread its influence through a land corridor from its western border via Iraq all the way to Lebanon ...

which established a self-styled caliphate across vast swathes of Iraq and Syria a decade ago before counter-offensives backed both by the United States and Iran. The Iraqi government has close ties to ...

Blinken met with Sudani for more than an hour in Baghdad — the latest in a string of meetings in Turkey and Jordan ... Iran from transiting weapons through Iraq to Shia militias in Syria ...

With the fall of al-Assad in Syria, this axis has been weakened, most obviously Iran. At the same time, Iran will still find support in parts of Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, while Israel will now have to ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced stop in Iraq on Friday ... the weekend ouster of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad.Blinken has already been to Jordan and Turkey on his ...