Saddam Hussein

Hundreds of Iranians on Aug. 31 attended the funeral of Ebrahim Yazdi, one of the country's most influential dissident politicians and a former foreign minister.

The U.S. claims that it will retrieve 1,000 trucks of weaponry after giving them to the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), once the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) ends. Is it possible to believe this?

First of all, certain questions must be answered.

Saudi Arabia and Iraq plan to open the Arar border crossing for trade for the first time since 1990, when it was closed after the countries cut ties following Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Saudi local media reported on Aug. 15.

Saudi Arabia and Iraq are to launch a joint trade commission, the Saudi cabinet announced on Aug. 14, in a sign of a thaw in ties between the two neighbors.

The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has staged a new offensive against Iraqi forces south of Mosul, slaughtering soldiers and civilians as it nears a U.S. military installation.

Iran has called in the Swiss charge d'affaires, who looks after U.S. interests, to protest against comments by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson backing "peaceful transition" in the Islamic republic.

"Once, my son, Uday, fired indiscriminately at a party and killed many people. I burned his Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and Porsches after the incident," the former Iraqi emperor told his guards. When the American soldiers captured him on December 13, 2003, he said: "I'm Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi President."

"I was saddened to learn my former colleague, Constantine Mitsotakis, has passed. We worked together on a number of pressing issues, but none more important than removing Iraqi forces from Kuwait following their brutal invasion in 1990. When it came to upholding international law and enforcing those tough UN sanctions against Saddam Hussein, my friend Constantine was solid as a rock.

You must have heard the phrase "back to the future." Nothing else could better describe my feelings while following the NATO summit in Brussels on May 25, which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also attended.

TANTA, Egypt—Like the Jews before them, Christians are fleeing the Middle East, emptying what was once one of the world’s most-diverse regions of its ancient religions.

They’re being driven away not only by Islamic State, but by governments the U.S. counts as allies in the fight against extremism.