Officials with one of the armed Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq told The Associated Press that they are not planning an imminent cross-border attack on Iran but would join a ground invasion if the U.

Kurdish Iranian dissidents in Iraq clarified their position on U.S. military involvement in Iran, stating they would join a ground invasion while denying plans for cross-border attacks.

Two decades after regime change, Iraq stands as both a cautionary tale and a living polity still striving for coherence amid competing forces.

In the wake of a full-scale assault on Iran by the United States and Israel, and the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, oil-based theories of imperialism are understandably getting attention.

The C.I.A. has given small weapons to Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq in a covert program that began before the current war.

Media analysis indicates parallels between headlines from Iraq war to current response to US and Israeli bombardment of Iran

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down in April 2003 as US tanks rolled into the centre of Baghdad - Goran Tomasevic /REUTERS As the US launches its long anticipated strikes against ...

But this should not come as a surprise, as he is just following in the footsteps of his predecessors:  George W Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden — all four US presidents in the 21st century — authorised military force abroad despite the rhetorical differences.

Twitter, or X, did not exist when the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003. But a quick perusal of the popular social media website in the 48 hours following the latest U.S. bombing campaign in Iran was like opening a time capsule from 23 years ago and watching all the hawkish talking points spill out.

Middle East tensions: Amid the ongoing conflict, questions continue to arise over whether Washington could consider a full-scale invasion of Iranian territory. These questions have gained urgency as the ongoing US-Iran conflict has begun to trigger ripple effects across the global economy,