According to experts and analysts from the American think tank Institute for the Study of War [ISW], the possibility of a direct war between Russia and the United States has grown very high, said in a monthly report of the institute.

The Islamic State’s gruesome killing of a sheikh and some of his relatives by rigging his corpse with explosives has led to security concerns in the multiethnic region bordering Iran, long a hotbed for extremism and susceptible to sectarianism. Another recent uptick in attacks attributed to the Islamic State (IS) …

Investigators said the defendants received orders from Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to stage attacks in Bahrain. Bahrain’s highest criminal court convicted 51 people of membership in a terrorist organization that was planning to carry out attacks in the Gulf kingdom with support from Iran, the state news agency …