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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

The US military has attacked Iranian-backed militant groups in Iraq, hours after US personnel were injured in a drone strike on a US airbase there.

The two nations are cooperating in fields ranging from infrastructure projects to education, the president has said

Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

There is still a chance to prevent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from spilling over, Tehran believes

“We have strict oversight of the funds, and we retain the right to freeze them,” Blinken said.

The U.S.-Iran prisoner exchange, which includes a provision to unlock $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil funds, marks a major breakthrough for the bitter foes.