Iran

A U.S. military AC-130J Ghostrider attacked an Iran-backed militant group after the group used a ballistic missile to attack U.S. and coalition forces on Al-Asad Airbase, Iraq, the deputy pentagon press secretary said Tuesday. The ballistic missile attack resulted in non-serious injuries to U.S. and coalition forces, as well as …

Forty days into the Israel-Hamas war, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force promised the militant group that Iran “will do anything required.” Yet questions linger over Iran’s willingness to risk direct involvement. The head of Iran’s Quds Force, the powerful wing commanding its controversial foreign military operations, has assured the …

Terrible as the Gaza war’s toll has already been, it would get worse if sustained fighting were to erupt between the U.S. and Iran or its Middle East allies. Crisis Group experts Brian Finucane, Lahib Higel, Naysan Rafati and Ali Vaez lay out the dangers. What is happening? The United …

L’Iran est un acteur important du monde multipolaire selon l’analyse d’experts indiens. Cette vision démontre également que les tentatives de créer des divisions au sein des pays adhérant au concept multipolaire mondial sont vouées à l’échec. Et que malgré quelques différences de visions, les intérêts communs entre les partisans de …

Plenty of factors could expand the conflict in Gaza, which is why a ceasefire is now needed to avoid the worst. Hamas’s operational success on October 7 has placed Iran, and with it Hezbollah, between a rock and a hard place as they try to calibrate their response to the …

White House and Pentagon officials have said they will hold Iran accountable for attacks on US bases by Iranian proxies. US troops in Iraq and Syria came under a spate of new rocket and drone attacks over the weekend, as the Pentagon sent an Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine into the region …

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s Tehran visit came only one day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Baghdad, amid an uptick in Iran-backed militia attacks on US bases in the region in response to Israel’s war on Hamas. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said pressure …

Iran is the main financial backer of Hamas. Its proxies across the region have increased attacks on US and Israeli targets in recent weeks. As the month-long Israel-Hamas war continues, Ismail Haniyeh, chief of Hamas’ political bureau, met recently with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, according to …

In the global conflict with the Moscow-Beijing-Tehran axis, the American superpower needs to walk and chew gum. As Hasan Nasrallah, the chief of Hezbollah, escalates his threats of a broader war and continues the shelling of Israel’s north, Jerusalem, as well as Washington, needs to face an increasingly toxic and …

Iran said on Sunday that it foiled a Mossad drone attack in eastern Iran after arresting three local agents of the Israeli spy agency in a joint operation with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) near its eastern borders with Afghanistan. Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in cooperation with Afghanistan’s IEA “neutralized …