Middle Orient

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has held Israel, its intelligence agency Mossad, and the MKO terrorists accountable for the assassination of distinguished Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

After being protected by Donald Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could soon face US sanctions and political pushback from Joe Biden’s administration that would sour Ankara-Washington relations. President Donald Trump shielded his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the consequences of buying proscribed Russian weapons, evading US sanctions on …

As U.S. President Donald Trump’s time in office comes to a close, his outgoing administration intends to put further pressure on Iran by introducing new punitive sanctions against the U.S. adversary.

Iran’s president reiterated his hope Wednesday that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden would return America’s Iran policy to where he left things as vice president four years ago, state TV reported, rejoining Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

The Syrian army said early Wednesday that Israel launched air strikes on an area in the southern outskirts of Damascus, where military defectors believe has a strong Iranian military presence in the second such attack within a week. The Israeli aerial strike on a strategic area that Israel had hit …

Iran’s most senior nuclear scientist has been assassinated near Tehran by “armed terrorists” in an attack that Iran said bore the hallmarks of an Israeli operation.

Prominent Iranian physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has been assassinated in a terrorist attack near the capital Tehran. The Fars news agency reported that he had been targeted on Friday in a multi-pronged attack involving at least one explosion and small fire by a number of assailants in Absard city of Damavand …

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Much has changed since Saudi Arabia last sent troops to help other Arab countries wage war on Israel. The message Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokeswoman Shir Cohen sent to journalists on Saturday night seemed innocuous enough.“In order for minister [Ze’ev] Elkin and Izhar Shay to complete their work …

A sudden U.S. troop pull-out from north east Syria could prompt a humanitarian crisis, an Islamic State resurgence and renewed conflict between Turkey and the Syrian Democratic Forces, especially its Kurdish component. The U.S. should commit to an eventual, gradual and conditional withdrawal that protects civilians.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored a squadron of Russian fighter jets targeting ISIS positions in the Syrian desert at the Hama-Idlib-Raqqa triangle. The attack which started in the early hours of the morning and is still underway. No information has been reported on the losses.