A senior figure in the Iranian Kurdish opposition told Alhurra that the headquarters of four Iranian Kurdish parties in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region were targeted by Iranian drones on Sunday evening.

A few hours after the first Israeli and U.S. airstrikes on Iran on Saturday, and as air raid sirens echoed across the skies of Jerusalem, Yehya Kassem, correspondent for the Middle East ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani had hoped that his country would remain insulated from the fallout of the renewed war that erupted Saturday morning, following Israeli airstrikes on ...

When Missiles Succeed Where Gulf Politics Failed Abdulaziz Al-Khamis In the Middle East, major shifts rarely unfold where analysts expect them. Over the past two years, ...

Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader since 1989 and a central architect of the Islamic Republic’s entrenched hard‑line, anti‑Western course, has been confirmed killed in a joint ...

Because Ali Khamenei was killed in a foreign airstrike rather than dying in bed, the succession is unfolding under a different set of rules. Instead of a planned insider handover, Iran now faces a ...

In late 2025 and at the beginning of this year, the Gulf position toward the escalating tensions between the United States and Iran was defined by a refusal to allow the use of Gulf airspace or ...

Alhurra’s correspondent in Iraq reported Saturday that explosions were heard in areas where Iran-aligned Shiite armed factions are present in southern Iraq. Citing a source in Iraq’s Interior ...

In the early hours of Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, the Middle East entered an unprecedented phase of escalation following the announcement by the United States and Israel that they had ...

Over the eight months following the twelve-day war between Iran and Israel, Iranian Kurdish opposition parties have ...

Erbil and most cities across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq were plunged once again into complete darkness on Saturday evening after the Kormor gas field halted the supply of gas to power stations ...

A senior Iraqi government source said Saturday that two “very high-ranking” Iraqi officials received a message related to the developments unfolding in the region. According to the source, the ...