Al-Monitor- The rise of the Islamic State (IS) in 2014 created the opportunity to make Haider al-Abadi Iraq's prime minister. Since then, he has had to manage a balancing act between Iran and the United States, a task he hasaddressed openly with Western media. With US President Donald Trump and a revised American Middle Eastpolicy much more inclined ...

Press TV- A senior Iranian officialhas voiced support for normalization of ties between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, but also calledon Riyadh to stop its destructive and unconstructivebehavior" in the region. The comments by Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, an adviser to Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, came amid wild speculations about the impact ...