Iran’s war posture is reshaping life along the Iraq‑Iran border and escalating abroad, with threats now aimed at US‑linked universities in the Gulf. Families are cut off, trade and smuggling halted, ...

HALABJA, Iraq (AP) — To speak with his mother inside Iran, Yaser Fattahi waits in self-exile in Iraq for brief calls arranged by a cousin back home who travels close to the border between the ...