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The influence of Tehran on its neighbor is growing, while the U.S., Iraqi officials and analysts say, pursues a policy of near-total disengagement... Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the geopolitical winner of the war appears to be their common enemy: Iran.

Syria’s civil war is straining sectarian tensions in Iraq nine months after American forces left, and it is causing Iraq’s Shiite-led government to move closer to Iran.

Iraq's government has given foreign diplomats a rare look inside a refugee camp housing Iranian exiles, as Baghdad seeks international help resettling them in another country.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Iran on Sunday not to view the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq as an opportunity to try to build its influence in the country.

A classified U.S. military document appears to lend credence to claims that Iran crossed the Iraqi border to arrest three American hikers.

Iranian security forces seized an oil well in southern Iraq on Thursday night, two senior Iraqi government officials said Friday.

Iran's foreign minister said today that three Americans jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July will go on trial.

Three American hikers who have been detained in Iran after crossing into the country from Iraq have been charged with espionage, according to Iran's State News Agency.

Three American tourists are reportedly in Iranian custody after they may have strayed across the border from Iraq during a mountain hike, Kurdish officials said Friday.

It was the latest in a flurry of attacks that, though relatively small, have killed or wounded scores in the last week.