TEHRAN - Iran’s national wheelchair basketball team are determined to begin their campaign at the NagoyaAsian Para Games with a strong performance against Iraq, according to team coach Mohammadreza Dastyar ... .
Iraq's shadow economy is expanding as millions of workers and businesses operate outside formal government oversight, depriving the state of revenue and complicating efforts to reduce its dependence on oil.
... team as they were entering the country from Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, seizing a sizeable cache of illegal weapons ... Iran seizes sizeable weapons cache smuggled from Iraq's Kurdistan.
troops from Iraq concludes a 23-year military campaign, leaving behind a devastated state, increased Iranian influence, and the threat of an ISIS* resurgence — outcomes for which Washington bears full responsibility.
Iraq's political parties have reached a final agreement with Prime Minister Ali ... Iraq's parliament granted confidence to Zaidi's government in mid-May, approving just 14 of the proposed 23 ministers.
For Iraq, sovereignty is not simply a matter of defending borders or maintaining the traditional instruments of state power ... Iraq’s geographical position places it at the intersection of important political, economic, and security interests.