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April 13, 2024

Middle East

Iran launches drone attack on Israel, America vows ally against Tehran

Iran has launched an attack against Israel using hundreds of suicide drones, prompting a major response from America.

By Editors Desk

Supreme leader Ali Khamenei stoked tensions this week by labelling the Israel regime as an ‘evil’ entity that ‘must be punished’.

April 11, 2024

Middle East

Biden vows 'ironclad' support for Israel amid Iran attack fears

President Joe Biden has promised Israel "ironclad" US support amid fears that Tehran could launch reprisals for an attack that killed senior Iranians.

By Editors Desk

April 01, 2024

Middle East

Israel kills top Iranian general

IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi was among the dead in a Damascus airstrike

By Editors Desk

Emergency services work at a destroyed building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 1, 2024. © AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki

February 03, 2024

Middle East

What we know about US strikes on Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria

The United States on Friday carried out strikes against Iranian forces in Iraq and Syria in retaliation over a drone attack that killed three US soldiers in Jordan.

By Editors Desk

US soldiers patrol an area in the town of Tal Hamis, southeast of the city of Qameshli in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on January 24, 2024. © Delil Souleiman, AFP

February 02, 2024

Middle East

U.S. conducts strikes in Iraq and Syria

The action follows an attack on a Jordan base that killed three Americans

February 01, 2024

World

What Iran's leaders and citizens are saying as the U.S. plans strikes on Iranian targets in Iraq and Syria

Iranian officials insist the country does not have proxies

February 01, 2024

Middle East

Iran military general warns US it is ‘not afraid’ of war amid regional tensions

A high-ranking military official in Iran has issued a defiant statement as tensions between the Middle Eastern superpower and the West threaten to spill over.

On Wednesday, General Hossein Salami, said threats by American officials will not go unanswered, revealing his nation was not eager to begin a war with the West, but was also not afraid.

January 30, 2024

Middle East

Biden says he's decided Jordan strike response, doesn't want wider war

Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden said Tuesday he had decided on a response to a drone strike that killed three American troops in Jordan but said he did not want a wider war in the Middle East.

By Editors Desk

US President Joe Biden speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House © Mandel NGAN / AFP

January 28, 2024

Middle East

Iran denies it was behind deaths of US servicemen in Jordan

The Islamic Republic has distanced itself from the deadly drone attack on an American outpost

By Editors Desk

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani holds a press conference in Tehran, on December 5, 2022. © Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images

January 27, 2024

Odd News

Secret sex tapes expose hypocrisy of country’s elites

A country with hard line rules on sex and drugs is embroiled in a scandal as prominent figures are exposed in X-rated footage.

Mohammad-Mehdi Karami speaks in a courtroom before being executed by hanging, along with Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, for allegedly killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests. Picture: West Asia News Agency

January 20, 2024

World

Iran announces successful satellite launch, heightening Western concerns over missile program

Iran said Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles.

By Editors Desk

File photo: In this photo released Wednesday, April 22, 2020, by Sepah news, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province. © Sepah / AP

January 18, 2024

World

Pakistan carries out military strikes on separatist targets in Iran following deadly attack on its own soil by Tehran

Akhtar Soomro/Reuters Pakistan and Iran have now taken extraordinary step of attacking militants on each other’s soil at a time of expanding conflict in the Middle East and wider region

January 17, 2024

World

Pakistan condemns deadly Iranian missile strike on its territory as an ‘unprovoked violation’

Authorities in Balochistan province told CNN two girls had died and at least four people were injured.

Pakistans Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani attends an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting regarding the situation in the besieged Gaza Strip in Jeddah on October 18 2023. © Amer Hilabi AFP

January 16, 2024

Middle East

Iraq recalls ambassador from Tehran after Iranian missiles strike Kurdish region

Iraq condemned an "attack on its sovereignty" on Tuesday after Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched missile strikes on anti-Tehran groups and an alleged Israeli "spy headquarters" in Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.

By Editors Desk

January 16, 2024

Middle East

Iran launches missile strikes in northern Iraq and Syria, claims to destroy Israeli spy base

CNN has reached out to Israel’s Prime Minister’s office for comment on the IRGC’s claim.

January 15, 2024

Military

US Consulate explosion, ship hit in escalation

Explosions have reportedly been heard near a US Consulate amid rising tensions in the Middle East.

By Editors Desk

Iranian protesters burn an Israeli and a US flag during a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Picture: ATTA KENARE / AFP

January 11, 2024

Middle East

US-UK coalition strike Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen after spate of ship attacks in Red Sea

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants have stepped up attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea in recent weeks

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January 04, 2024

World

Islamic State Takes Responsibility for Deadly Bombings in Iran

The Islamic State announcement dovetailed with American intelligence assessments indicating that the attack was most likely the work of the group.

A photo released by Iran’s state-run news media on Wednesday of the site of the explosions in the city of Kerman.Credit...Sare Tajalli/ISNA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

January 04, 2024

World

Iran Vows Revenge Over Deadly Bomb Attack at Soleimani Memorial

Authorities investigate the pair of blasts amid regional tensions between Iranian-backed groups and Israel

Iranians waved images of the late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in Tehran on Wednesday. ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/SHUTTERSTOCK

January 03, 2024

World

Dozens killed as explosions rock memorial for slain Iranian general – media

Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike on this day in 2020

By Editors Desk

A view of the scene after explosions leaving at least 73 feared dead in explosions near slain Gen. Qassem Soleimani's tomb, in Kerman City, Iran on January 03, 2024 © Getty Images / Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images