Iraq

The museum said its enhanced effort to study the provenance of items in its collection had turned up evidence that the statue of a Sumerian man was the property of Iraq.

President Biden successfully assembled a coalition to defend Israel against Iran’s aerial attack, but the cycle of retaliation could continue, challenging the White House’s efforts to avert a sustained conflict.

Their experience of being outsiders deeply affected their political worldviews and caused them to embrace the struggles of other excluded Americans as their own.

A guide to the armed groups that let Iran extend its influence throughout the region.

A refugee from Iraq, he explored in popular books the worlds of Jews living in Arabic countries or who fled persecution, and of Arabs living in Israel.

Three new books track the pain that persists among American soldiers and diplomats in the aftermath of war.

There’s another Middle East conflict going on, and U.S. soldiers are on the front lines of it.

How to think about the moral complexities in the Israel-Gaza war.

A C.I.A. capable of making a mistake on the scale of its miss about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was not part of Saddam Hussein’s worldview.

Tehran, wary of igniting open warfare with Washington, has told militia groups it backs to curtail assaults on targets such as military installations, Iranian and American officials say.