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Iraq-Saudi Arabia relations

A billboard depicting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's late supreme leader who was killed on February 28 in an Israeli strike in Tehran, standing behind an Iranian soldier with a caption in Arabic reading 'A martyr leads the battlefield' is displayed along a road in the Ameriyah neighborhood in western Baghdad on March 18, 2026 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
May 14, 2026, 3:30 am
Saudi warplanes struck Iran-backed militias in Iraq during war, sources say
Riyadh said to have targeted sites near the kingdom’s northern border from which drone and missiles were launched at Gulf states; Kuwait also said to have fired on Iraq
By Timour Azhari, Ahmed Rasheed and Humeyra Pamuk
A screenshot from an MBC report aired on October 19, 2024 that referred to various leaders of Iran-backed organizations as terrorists. (Youtube screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 20, 2024, 10:22 am
Saudi TV station ransacked in Iraq after calling Sinwar, Nasrallah ‘terrorists’
Supporters of Iraqi militias storm, loot MBC offices after outlet uses term to refer to leaders of Iranian proxies; Iraqi government says will revoke broadcaster’s working license
By Agencies
Affinity Partners' Jared Kushner (left) and Shlomo group chairman Asi Shmeltzer. (Courtesy)
September 6, 2023, 3:58 pm
Jared Kushner’s Saudi-backed private equity fund clinches first investment in Israel
Affinity Partners, headed by Trump’s son-in-law, to invest $150 million for a 15% stake in Shlomo group’s car and credit business unit
By Sharon Wrobel
Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, August 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
June 25, 2022, 11:25 pm
Iraqi PM heads to Saudi Arabia, Iran for fresh mediation talks
Official says Mustafa al-Kadhimi looking for new avenues to relaunch dialogue between regional foes during stops in Jeddah, Tehran
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
In this photo released by Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, center left, is greeted by Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani upon his arrival at Doha airport in Qatar late Dec. 8, 2021 (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)
December 10, 2021, 6:11 am
As US focus wanes, Middle East countries turn to each other for solutions
Regional leaders reengage with former rivals after two decades defined by war and political upheaval, as American forces withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan
By Jon Gambrell
Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, offers his condolences to Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, upon the death of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
November 10, 2020, 11:48 pm
After cozy Trump ties, ‘pariah’ Saudi Arabia faces reckoning with Biden
Mohammed bin Salman now vulnerable to renewed scrutiny from kingdom’s closest Western ally, which could leave him isolated amid challenges that imperil his reform agenda
By Anuj Chopra
Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal talks to the Associated Press in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday Nov. 24, 2018 (AP/Kamran Jebreili)
November 24, 2018, 5:49 pm
Saudi royal laments Khashoggi’s killing, is wary on rapprochement with Israel
Prince Turki al-Faisal says his appearance last year on a panel with former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy does not represent a normalizing of relations
By Aya Batrawy
Opening of Basra International Stadium in 2013. (CC BY Yesar Al-Maleki. Wikimedia Commons)
February 27, 2018, 7:28 pm
Soccer beats politics for fans ahead of Iraq, Saudi clash
Friendly match to be held in Basra marks return to international stage for majority Shiite city near Iran border
By Karim JAMEEL and Khalil JALIL
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens through his earpiece to a speech translation during a meeting of the Saudi-Iraqi Bilateral Coordination Council in the capital Riyadh, October 22, 2017. (AFP/Alex Brandon)
October 22, 2017, 7:38 pm
Tillerson demands Iranian militias leave Iraq
US secretary of state says that as fighting against Islamic State winds down, Iran-backed forces must pull out
By Agencies
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (left) and Saudi King Salman speak before their meeting, October 22, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
October 22, 2017, 5:57 pm
US pushes Saudi Arabia, Iraq on united front to counter Iran
Amid improving ties between Riyadh and Baghdad, Tillerson promotes Trump administration goal to bolster collective security
By Matthew Lee and ALEX BRANDON
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is greeted as he arrives at King Salman Air Base, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
October 21, 2017, 6:30 pm
Tillerson in Mideast as US seeks Saudi-Iraqi axis against Iran
Secretary of state is Trump’s point man on an ambitious mission to win over Iraq, counter Tehran’s growing influence in the region
By Matthew Lee
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Moscow on March 9, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Pavel Golovkin)
March 10, 2017, 2:53 pm
Looking back at Persia and seeing Iran
Purim presents Netanyahu with the opportunity to tie in past thwarted genocides with modern day threats — Putin is unimpressed
By Adiv Sterman
Patrick Cockburn was The Independent's Jerusalem correspondent from 1995-1999. (courtesy)
October 24, 2016, 9:37 am
Middle East’s ‘demons’ now an unstoppable force, writes veteran correspondent
In book of on-scene diaries ‘The Age of Jihad,’ Patrick Cockburn describes why the sectarian holy war in the Middle East is now an unclosable Pandora’s box
By JP O’ Malley
In this Monday, Jan. 4, 2016 file photo, followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burn an effigy of King Salman of Saudi Arabia as they hold posters of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)
January 6, 2016, 1:44 am
Iraq must walk fine line amid Iranian, Saudi tensions
As pressure grows to take sides in escalating Sunni-Shiite standoff, PM Abadi tries to keep focus on Islamic State fight
By SUSANNAH GEORGE
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (screengrab: YouTube/BBC News)
May 31, 2015, 10:08 pm
Iraq to stay out of Iran-Saudi conflicts
Prime minister says his country is not a ‘gateway’ for regional rivals to use in confrontations
By AFP
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