Moreover, recent months have seen advances by the U.S. and its allies in securing major new deals in Iraq, with TotalEnergies’ US$27 billion four-pronged deal being one case in point and BP’s ...

US employers added 177,000 jobs in April — far above analysts’ expectations in a sign that President Trump’s tariffs have not started to stunt hiring yet. It’s still a decrease from the ...

The US economy unexpectedly shrank in the first three months of 2025 as President Trump’s tariffs sent companies rushing to import goods from overseas, according to data released on Wednesday.

The US Treasury Department announced the US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund on Wednesday, as the two countries signed a long-anticipated minerals deal. Announcing the signing of the accord ...

The United States has announced to deploy about 750 troops immediately to the Middle East, a move taken hours after demonstrators stormed the US Embassy in Iraq. Pentagon Chief and US Secretary of ...

The US economy just had its worst quarter since 2022 as President Donald Trump’s significant policy changes unnerved consumers and businesses. Gross domestic product, which measures all the ...

For decades, Turkey has fought to root out the PKK – a Kurdish organisation banned as a terrorist group in Turkey, the EU, UK, and US – from its refuges in the mountains of Iraq’s Kurdistan ...

In his seminal book “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll offers a meticulously documented account of how mutual misperceptions, intelligence failures and institutional groupthink led to the ...

An alleged member of the Islamic State has been arrested in Iraq after being accused of inciting the New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people and injured dozens of others ...

An official with the Islamic State group has been detained in Iraq, suspected of being involved with inciting the pickup truck-ramming attack in New Orleans that killed more than a dozen people ...