Iraq

I had just returned from Saudi Arabia as a US diplomat when al-Qaeda struck. We must remember who did it

I’m shocked that politicians and commentators in today’s America are willing to dismiss the threat of Islamism or even seek the support of radical influencers such as Hasan Piker who claimed that ‘America deserved 9/11’

By Marc J Sievers

6 min read

Smoke comes out from the west wing of the Pentagon building September 11, 2001 after al-Qaeda terrorists crashed a plane into the building and set off a huge explosion. (Image: Getty Images)

Smoke pours from the World Trade Center in New York City after it was struck by two planes on September 11, 2001 (Getty Images)

By Dominic Green

Twenty-five years after 9/11, did the Islamists or the US win the war on terror?

6 min read

Damaged buildings at the site of a Saudi-US strike in Bartalla, in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, on July 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

US and Saudi strike Iran-backed militia in Iraq after failed ‘surprise attack’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Israeli fighter F-16 jets perform an exhibition exercise during an Israeli Independence Day show (Getty Images)

Operation Roaring Lion

Israel built ‘clandestine’ base in Iraq to support Tehran bombing campaign

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

A plume of smoke rises over the Iraqi capital Baghdad on March 16, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Iran hits US embassy in Baghdad as Gulf strikes continue

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iran

US ‘in active talks’ with Iraqi Kurds over potential CIA-backed Iran regime change

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

A UH-60 Black Hawk flies during a mission in the US Central Command area of operations within designated areas of Iraq and Syria (Picture: Maj. Karl R. Cain II/U.S. Army)

isis

US to transfer up to 7,000 ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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Jewish family whose home was ‘squatted’ by French ambassadors ‘lost 14m euros in rent’, lawyer says

Iraqi-Jewish family is seeking compensation from French state which used their looted home in Baghdad without paying for it

By Shirli Sitbon

3 min read

January 21, 2026 14:47

A historic aerial shot of the house, known in the family as Beit Lawee (Picture: courtesy of Philip Khazzam)

Jewish family sues France for over £24m for using stolen family home as Baghdad embassy

The Iraqi-Jewish family were forced to leave Iraq in the 1950s, resettling in Canada

By Siam Goorwich

3 min read

October 21, 2025 17:44

Israeli-Russian student kidnapped in Iraq freed after two years

US President Trump claimed that Elizabeth Tsurkov had been tortured

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

September 10, 2025 09:22

Israeli-Russian student Elizabeth Tsurkov has been freed two years after being kidnapped by an Iraqi militia (Image: X/@ARED_ALHOR)

‘My Iraqi motherland rejected me because I was Jewish. It’s left a scar’

Linda Dangoor’s recipe memoir is filled with flavours from her birthplace and the countries to which she and her family travelled

By Elisa Bray

4 min read

June 26, 2025 16:09

Linda Dangoor's flavours take us from the Tigris to the Thames

Iran-backed militias in Iraq ‘willing to disarm’ to dodge US escalation

Tehran has been pulling back from direct support for its proxies amid growing tension with Washington over the former’s nuclear programme

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

April 8, 2025 12:24

A number of Iran-backed militias in Iraq are reportedly willing to disarm to avoid US escalation in the region (Image: Getty)

By Jake Wallis Simons

The unbearable lightness of Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell

Albanese was granted the soft treatment that her hosts would want if they were confronted with their involvement in the Iraq War

3 min read

March 25, 2025 16:19

Francesca Albanese claimed that allegation of antisemitism against her have been 'weaponised' to stifle her criticism of Israel (Image: The Rest is Politics)

By Seth J. Frantzman

2025 could see a wave of optimism spread across the Middle East

The regime falling in Syria could usher in a new era of cooperation in the region

4 min read

December 31, 2024 10:01

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha (Andriy Sybiga) (C-L) leads a delegation of officials including Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval (2nd-L) as they are received by Syria's new leader and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) chief Ahmed al-Sharaa (C-R) in Damascus on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP) (Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images)

IDF downs missiles from Iraq heading to Golan Heights

The projectiles were intercepted with no injuries or damage reported

By JC Reporter

2 min read

September 22, 2024 10:06

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system (Getty Images)

Outrage after Sky News blames Syrian ‘militias’ on Gaza war

Correspondent Alex Crawford accused of broadcasting ‘poisonous propaganda’

By Felix Pope

1 min read

August 14, 2024 11:40

Alex Crawford said the war in Gaza was having 'many more unforeseen, unpredictable consequences' (Photo: Sky News)

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Iraq

I had just returned from Saudi Arabia as a US diplomat when al-Qaeda struck. We must remember who did it

Twenty-five years after 9/11, did the Islamists or the US win the war on terror?

US and Saudi strike Iran-backed militia in Iraq after failed ‘surprise attack’

Israel built ‘clandestine’ base in Iraq to support Tehran bombing campaign

Iran hits US embassy in Baghdad as Gulf strikes continue

US ‘in active talks’ with Iraqi Kurds over potential CIA-backed Iran regime change

US to transfer up to 7,000 ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq

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