Middle Orient

The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN. The Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support, the …

Armed Kurdish groups along Iran’s north-western border with Iraq have come into focus as a potential ground force that could move against Tehran, as the US-Israeli war continues. Quoting Kurdish officials, AP reported that Kurdish-Iranian dissident groups in northern Iraq were getting ready for a possible operation inside Iran and …

Ankara says weapon may have been aimed at base in Greek Cyprus but veered off course Nato forces have shot down a ballistic missile that Iran fired towards Turkey, Ankara said, in an escalation of the Iran-US-Israel conflict spreading across the region. “A ballistic munition, fired from Iran and detected …

Key Takeaways: The IDF conducted multiple strikes at several military compounds in southeastern Tehran on March 4 that house the headquarters of several services and branches of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as well as other internal security forces. The IDF strikes could be part of an effort to …

Washington a misé sur l’élimination plutôt que sur le dialogue, en supprimant un leader qui, pendant des décennies, a freiné la militarisation du programme nucléaire iranien. L’assassinat perfide et traître d’Ali KhameneiMais l’effet a été inverse : la nouvelle génération de l’élite iranienne arrive au pouvoir avec la conviction que …

Alors qu’à Washington et à Tel-Aviv, les politiciens, telles des hyènes repues, se frottent les mains avec un rictus, dans le sud de l’Iran, dans la ville de Minab, la terre s’est ouverte pour accueillir cent soixante-cinq corps d’enfants. Cent soixante-cinq filles, élèves de l’école primaire «Shajareh Tayyebeh», ne reverront …

Three sources said that Iranian Kurdish armed groups have held consultations with the United States in recent days on whether and how they will attack Iranian security forces in the western part of the country. The Iranian Kurdish alliance of groups based on the Iran-Iraq border in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan …

Key Takeaway: The Yemeni Houthis and Iran could target Emirati, Israeli, or US positions in the Horn of Africa and across the continent as part of the ongoing Iranian retaliatory campaign. The Iran war will likely have short-term effects on disputes in the Horn of Africa that are linked to …

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute are publishing two updates daily to provide analysis on the war with Iran. The morning update will focus on US and Israeli strikes on Iran and Iran and the Axis of …

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