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DUBAI/BAGHDAD (Reuters) -An Iranian missile strike on targets in northern Iraq set off an unusual dispute between the neighbouring allies on Tuesday, with Baghdad recalling its ambassador in ...
Iran–Iraq relations ( Persian: روابط ایران و عراق Ravâbete Irân va Arâq; Arabic: العلاقات العراقية الإيرانية Al-ilaqat Al-Iraqiya Al-Iraniya) are the diplomatic and foreign relations between the two sovereign states of Iran and Iraq . Both states have history that extends for millennia into the past ...
The airstrikes launched by the United States in Iraq and Syria are its biggest attacks against Iran-backed militants in the Middle East, but President Biden sought to avoid escalation into war.
Since the war erupted on Oct. 7, at least 92 attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria have been claimed by an umbrella group of Iran-backed Iraqi militants dubbed the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
The Iranian intervention in Iraq has its roots in the post- 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies, when the infrastructure of the Iraqi armed forces, as well as intelligence, were disbanded in a process called "de-Ba'athification" which allowed militias with close ties to Tehran to join the newly reconstituted army.
The Iran – Iraq border runs for 1,599 km (994 mi) from the tripoint with Turkey in the north down to the Shatt al-Arab (known as Arvand Rud in Iran) waterway and out to the Persian Gulf in the south. [ 1] Although the boundary was first determined in 1639, certain disputes continue, particularly surrounding navigation on the Shatt al-Arab.
The United States launched attacks Friday against 85 sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian forces and Iran-backed militants, its first retaliatory strikes for the killing of three American ...
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, [ f] was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active hostilities began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598 by both sides.