Iraq will begin restoring full diplomatic relations with Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, officials said Wednesday - ending more than a decade of frozen ties with its Arab neighbors. Many Arab ...

Iraq has launched a diplomatic drive to rally Arab opposition to possible U.S. military action. President Saddam Hussein dispatched senior Iraqi officials to almost all Arab capitals except Riyadh and ...

CAIRO — The foreign ministers of a divided Arab League agreed after heated debate Monday to condemn the war against Iraq, but failed to take the much stronger stand that Iraq wanted. At one point in ...

BAGHDAD – Iraq's top diplomat said Monday his country's security forces are ready to protect Mideast leaders who will attend the Arab League summit in May, even as bombings and shootings across Iraqi ...

The difference of opinion between Riyadh and Baghdad, on strategic alliances in the region, cannot be resolved without a series of actions to restore confidence between the two countries Iraq’s ...

Relations between Iraq and its Arab neighbors have worsened in recent weeks, highlighted by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s September 5 criticism of Arab leaders for failing to express sympathy or ...

Despite a commitment to draw down troops in Iraq, the U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, has proposed to step up involvement along a tense and violence-prone seam of land in the north that is ...

In her memoir “Always Carry Salt,” Samantha Ellis builds “an ark” for the next generation of her family. It involves culture, cuisine, and history.

Leaders of Iraq's interim government boycott a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, where the agenda includes Iraq's growing sectarian conflict. Iraqi officials were angered by remarks from ...

TIME.com: All the power players in the Middle East turn their attention tomorrow to Jordan, where representatives of all Arab governments are to attend a major Arab League summit. What can we expect ...