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April 14, 2024

Middle East

US helped Israel take down ‘nearly all’ Iranian drones and missiles – Biden

The president has condemned Tehran’s “unprecedented air attack”

By Editors Desk

US President Joe Biden, along with members of his national security team, receives updates on an ongoing attack on Israel from Iran, April 13, 2024. © Adam Schultz / The White House via AP

April 14, 2024

Middle East

India calls for ‘immediate de-escalation’ amid Israel-Iran tensions

New Delhi says it is “deeply concerned” about the situation in the Middle East, which “threatens peace and security”

By Editors Desk

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at a press conference with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Tehran, January 15, 2024. © Haydar Sahin/Anadolu via Getty Images

April 14, 2024

Middle East

‘Punishment’ of Israel completed, no intention to continue – Tehran

Iran’s top military commander has promised a “more extensive” response in case of future attacks by West Jerusalem

By Editors Desk

FILE PHOTO: The Chief of Staff of Tehran’s Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri © Global Look Press / Iranian Army Office

April 14, 2024

Middle East

Netanyahu claims success in defeating Iran’s attack

The Israeli military says it shot down 99% of more than 300 drones and missiles launched by Tehran

By Editors Desk

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2024. © RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP

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