
US President Joe Biden said on Monday that the United States would cease its “combat mission” in Iraq by the end of the year, to begin a “new phase” of military cooperation with the country. “We will not be at the end of the year in a combat mission” in ...

Iraq has signed an agreement allowing the cash-strapped Lebanese government pay for 1 million tonnes of heavy fuel oil a year in goods and services, helping Lebanon ease its acute power shortage, the two sides said on Saturday. Caretaker Energy Minister Raymond Ghajar arrived at Rafic Hariri International Airport in ...