Separately, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards target US base in Iraq, as PM Sudani rejects attempts to drag Iraq into the war.

02:35, Thu, Mar 12, 2026 Updated: 02:39, Thu, Mar 12, 2026 Two oil tankers have been struck by drones in Iraq indicating 'escalating tensions'. The tankers were targeted by new waves of Iranian drones and missiles on Thursday morning, March 12. Attacks ...

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.

Hosseini tells Al Jazeera that ‘there is a strong probability of action’ as the IRGC announces strikes on rebel targets.

Mojtaba Mojtaba succeeded his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in strikes on Tehran on February 28

Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday that there was likely no possibility the Iran war would become an extended military engagement and said it was "not Iraq."

President Trump's war against Iran carries echoes of the 2003 war in Iraq. NPR's Leila Fadel explores the lessons learned to understand whether regime change stands a chance in neighboring Iran.

In Egypt, where King Farouk was deposed by a group of military officers in 1952, talk of restoration hardly caught on, despite some half-hearted suggestions following President Hosni Mubarak’s departure in 2011. The surviving heir, Fuad II, had spent most of his life in Europe and showed little interest in returning to politics.

Tension in the Middle East continue to escalate as Iran-aligned Iraqi militias expand targets from military bases to oil facilities, threatening regional stability.