A general of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that Iran would keep its military forces in Syria, despite a warning from Israel earlier this week, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Wednesday. “The Islamic Republic of Iran will keep its military advisers, revolutionary forces, and its weapons in Syria,” Major...

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The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have threatened to launch more drone attacks, after a strike on a Yemeni government military parade in the southern province of Lahaj killed several people last week, The Daily Telegraph reported Sunday. The Houthis’ acts of aggression against the internationally recognized Yemeni government has...

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Former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot told New York Times columnist Bret Stephens that during his tenure as Israel’s top soldier, Israel hit “thousands” of Iranian targets in Syria, the latter wrote in a column published Friday. Eisenkot was describing Israel’s efforts to prevent Iran from establishing...

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The Islamic Republic of Iran has launched a brutal crackdown on the country’s Christian minority before and after Christmas, Benjamin Weinthal, a research fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, reported for Fox News on Saturday. Weinthal cited a report by the Iranian group Alliance for Rights of All...

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Documents in the Iranian nuclear archive captured by Israel last year show that Iran built an underground facility, which was likely used for the development of nuclear warheads, a paper published Friday by the Institute for Science and International Security charged. The paper — written by David Albright, a former weapons...

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The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have been accused of holding six prominent members of the Baha’i religious minority as prisoners of conscience and fabricating criminal charges against them, including colluding with Israel, The National reported last week. The deputy human rights minister of the internationally recognized Yemeni government said...

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The Dutch government has revealed for the first time that Iran hired criminal hitmen to assassinate two Iranian dissidents in the Netherlands, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. The announcement was part of a coordinated European Union initiative that saw sanctions imposed on Tehran for a widespread campaign of assassination plots...

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The United States has begun withdrawing its troops from Syria, following last month’s announcement by President Donald Trump that the U.S. would leave the country, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-led forces fighting ISIS, stated that U.S. troops have “begun the process of our deliberate withdrawal from...

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United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed in a speech in Cairo on Thursday that the Trump administration will work with allies to “expel every last Iranian boot” from Syria, the Times of Israel reported. “We strongly support Israel’s efforts to stop Tehran from turning Syria into the next...

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The family of a United States Navy veteran says that he has been imprisoned on unspecified charges in Iran since July, The New York Times reported Monday. Michael White’s mother, Joanne, said that her son never boarded a flight from Iran on July 27. White had been visiting his girlfriend in Iran....

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