Iran’s military chief of staff said on Wednesday that Israeli attacks on Syria are “not acceptable,” in a visit to Damascus. General Mohammad Bagheri, who was in Damascus to discuss further military cooperation with the Assad regime, said “It is not acceptable for the Zionist regime to violate Syria any...

After President Donald Trump’s speech last week when he announced he would not certify that Iran was in compliance with the nuclear deal and that he would impose tougher sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Tehran’s political and military leadership rallied behind the IRGC. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on...

Iraqi security forces and the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi, an umbrella group of Shiite militia, on Sunday night launched an attack on Kirkuk from two front lines, Kurdish news outlet Rudaw reported Monday. The Iraqi army and Shiite militia fired on Peshmerga troops, using advanced weapons and vehicles supplied to them...

United States President Donald Trump announced in a keynote speech on Friday that his administration would not recertify the Iranian nuclear accord and outlined a tougher strategy toward Tehran, The Times of Israel reported. “We cannot and will not make this certification,” Trump said. “We will not continue down a...

Former Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, along with 14 others, were summoned on Monday to testify before the Argentinian federal judge that is investigating her administration’s role in hiding Iran’s involvement in the 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, The Algemeiner reported. Judge Claudio Bonadio’s request was based on the...

The United States announced multi-million dollar rewards for information on two Hezbollah operatives, and the top U.S. counterterror official said that intelligence agencies have assessed that Hezbollah is “determined” to attack the U.S. homeland, at a State Department briefing Tuesday. Nathan Sales, Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, announced that the State Department...