MNA Chairman of Parliaments national security commission said the rocket attack near foreign embassies in Baghdad's Green Zone is part of Saudi Arabias policy to create chaos in the region. Both the rocket attack on US embassy and the inviting of Arab leaders are parts of Saudi Arabias chaos-making policy in the region, Chairman of Parliaments ...

The Guardian | Julian Borger: Germany and the Netherlands have suspended their military training programmes in Iraq because of a perceived security threat in the wake of rising US-Iranian tensions in the region. The announcements came after the US embassy in Baghdad ordered all but emergency staff to leave Iraq. No details of the supposed security ...

Press TV - The US State Department has ordered the departure of non-emergency government employees from Iraq, after repeated US expressions of concern about so-called threats from Iran's allies in the Arab country. The State Department ordered the pullout of the employees from both the US Embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in Erbil, the embassy ...

AP The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is advising U.S. citizens against traveling to the country amid what it called heightened tensions, reflecting worsening strains between Washington and Tehran. The advisory was posted on Twitter on Sunday night. The U.S. has long advised its citizens against travel to Iraq, but the renewed warning followed Washingtons ...

Reuters - Iraq can continue to import natural gas and energy supplies from Iran for a period of 45 days, the United States has said, several days after reimposing sanctions on Tehrans oil sector. The United States has given Iraq a temporary relief from the sanctions for 45 days to continue purchasing natural gas and electricity from Iran, the U....

Iranians are considering the significance of President Rouhanis declaration on Sunday, amid his escalating fight with hardliners, that Iran should have direct referenda on key issues. Rouhanis main focus at the conference in Tehran was on the state of the economy, with a loud call for foreign investment (seeseparate entry). However, he widened his ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of Irans Basij (volunteer) Force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi said the US embassy in Baghdad is the command center for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Takfiri terrorists. "The US directly supports the ISIL in Iraq and the US planes drop the needed aids and weapons for ISIL in Iraq ," General Naqdi ...

Thecommander ofIrans Basij paramilitary force has accused theU.S.Embassy in Baghdad of being the Islamic State command center,saying the United States wantsto bring IS to Irans borders in order to pressureTehran. BrigadierGeneralMohammad Reza Naghdis comments, reported byIrans Fars News (close to the IslamicRevolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC), echoed ...