I’m glad that the United States and Iran reached an agreement in Vienna after nearly two years of negotiations and 35 years of enmity. A failure to do so under present political conditions would certainly have left a festering conflict with unpredictably bad...

Turkish forces launched a second wave of airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers Party (P.K.K.) targets in northern Iraq on Sunday, after P.K.K. militants attacked and killed soldiers in Turkey. The peace process between them appears to have ended. Residents are being...

At least 30 were killed and 51 were wounded, including Turkmen at a pool in northern Iraq.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited the Kurdish Autonomous Zone on Friday, as Turkish jets bombed P.K.K. bases in one of the provinces. At least 154 were killed and 54 were wounded across Iraq in violent attacks.

“The Americans have taken the Shia Muslim side in the Middle East’s sectarian war,” declared Robert Fisk in the Independent newspaper on July 15, a day after the US and five major world powers reached a landmark agreement with Iran about its nuclear programs. Fisk’s...

Early on July 9, guards in Kaliti prison in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia told Reeyot Alemu to pack up her bags. After four years in prison, she was going home. Reeyot is one of six journalists, including two bloggers from the Zone 9 blogging collective, released on July 8...

Peter Beinart asks some pretty good questions: he wants to know why the same crowd that lied us into war in Iraq isn't completely discredited when it comes to their opposition to the recently concluded deal with Iran. No, he doesn't put it quite that way, in part...

106 Killed in Iraq as US Defense Secretary Visits

Last week, much of the US seemed to wring its hands over the US government’s deal with Iran over their nuclear program. The hysterical reaction from potential 2016 candidates to a mixed, but fairly positive solution to this crisis – most of them came out against the...

According to International Organization for Migration, the number of internally displaced Iraqis has now surpassed three million. About 20 percent of the refugees are in living arrangements that are considered “critical.” At least 81 people were killed and 82 more were wounded in fresh violence.