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The US stepped up dollar restriction on Iraq last year to stem flow of currency to Iran, leading to a cash crunch and rising prices in Iraq

The US is sending additional fighter jets and a warship to the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman to increase security in the wake of Iranian attempts to seize commercial ships there. The Pentagon said Monday that the USS Thomas Hudner, a destroyer, and a number of F-35 fighter jets will be heading to the area. The Hudner had been in the Red Sea. Defense officials last week announced the deployment of F-16s to the area, and there have been A-10 attack aircraft there for nearly two weeks in respon...

Tensions persisted between Iraq’s Sadrist movement, headed by influential cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and the Dawa party, headed by former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in spite of their efforts to calm the situation. The tensions had erupted when a supporter of the Dawa had made offensive remarks against Sadr’s late father, prominent Shiite cleric Mohammed Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, who was assassinated in 1999. The former Iraqi regime is blamed for his killing.

The militias across the region have turned into factories manufacturing new militias. It is a profession for those without one.

Sadrist Movement supporters accused the Islamic Dawa Party of insulting religious scholar Muhammad Sadiq Al-Sadr, the late father of the leader of the movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr.

Move aims at simplifying payments current complicated by impact of US sanctions on Iran

Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba is accused of orchestrating an attack on US forces in Syria. The price may be its leader's life

Iraq cannot directly hand over cash to Iran, but payments must be held in a bank account and be used by Tehran to fund imports of food and medicines.

A powerful alliance of pro-Iran factions in Iraq called Sunday on Baghdad to pressure the United States to unlock pending payments to Tehran for crucial gas imports

A powerful alliance of pro-Iran factions in Iraq called Sunday on Baghdad to pressure the United States to unlock pending payments to Tehran for crucial gas imports. Iraq, ravaged by decades of conflict and international sanctions, relies on gas imported from its eastern neighbor for a third of its energy needs. But U.S. sanctions on…