For Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, Iran feels like déjà vu

Across the country, after the U.S. unleashed strikes in Iran last weekend, veterans anxiously held their breath. They said they’ve seen this story before — and it didn’t turn out well. The military campaign,

Ted Cruz shuts down extended Iran war talk, says it's 'not Iraq' amid oil price spike

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."
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Iran War Exposes Iraq’s Political Fault Lines

Iraq’s position on the war against Iran reflects layers of political and geopolitical accumulation stretching back many years. The transformations Iraq has experienced since 2003 have not fully

Iranian Kurd leader in Iraq says ground operation into Iran ‘highly likely’

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

'This is not Iraq.' Pete Hegseth says US won't spend 20 years in Iran

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Iran 'is not Iraq' and the administration doesn't have 'utopian' plans for nation-building there.
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Iraq congratulates Iran's new supreme leader and stresses solidarity amid attacks

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

Kurdish Iranian dissidents in Iraq deny attack plans but say they would join a US invasion of Iran

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.

The U.S. vowed its 'most intense day of strikes inside Iran'

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon was giving President Trump "maximum options" and that the war will not be "endless," a day after the president gave mixed signals about progress.

U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Targeted as Iraq Gets Drawn Deeper Into Regional War

Iraq is caught between two allies as the Trump administration pressures Iraqi leaders to distance themselves from Iran.

Exclusive-Iran spent years fostering proxies in Iraq. Now, many aren’t eager to join the war

By John Davison BAGHDAD, March 6 (Reuters) - Iran has spent decades and billions of dollars preparing foreign proxy fighters like A.J., a commander in a pro-Iranian paramilitary group in Iraq, for a moment just like this.
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Iraq under pressure to curb Iran-backed militias after Rubio call - analysis

Iraq is now at a crossroads. Iran is increasingly turning Iraq into a battlefield. Iraq appears unwilling to rein in the militias in Iraq. Iraqis know the situation is dire. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa ...