Iraqi officials say an American journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad and security forces are pursuing her captors.

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has triggered one of the Middle East’s long-feared nightmares: a full-blown regional conflagration. The expansion of the conflict has had especially significant consequences for Iran’s western neighbor,

Iraq is home to ruins from some of the world's earliest civilisations, but teams led by international archaeologists have been forced by drone and rocket attacks in the Middle East war to cut short their expeditions.

"I served as an intelligence officer in Baghdad. The mistakes of the disastrous invasion of Iraq are being repeated with the war on Iran," writes Frederic Wehrey

Iraq has been cut off from trade via the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran has developed over the last two weeks. An oil and trade dispute between Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan Regional

Iraq is caught in the crossfire of the Iran war and is the only country facing strikes from both sides, threatening to drag the nation that has so far avoided two years of regional turmoil into a full-blown crisis.

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