Middle Orient

Iran Sends Missiles to Iraqi Hezbollah in East Syria

Iranian military trucks carry surface-to-air missiles during a parade on the occasion of the country’s Army Day, on April 18, 2017, in Tehran. Short and medium range surface-to-surface Iranian missiles were delivered Friday to the Iraqi Hezbollah near the regime-controlled town of Al-Tabani in the western countryside of Syria’s Deir …

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Deir Ezzor | Violent explosions hit Iranian-held positions in rural Al-Bokamal

Syrian Observatory activists have reported hearing loud explosions in areas under the control of Iranian-backed militias in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. The explosions hit Al-Abbas area of Al-Bokamal where Iranian forces and their proxy militias are stationed. No further information have been reported yet about the nature and …

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Syria’s Golan Heights Tunneling is Making Israel Worried

Here’s What You Need to Remember: With Iranian and Hezbollah troops now in Syria, the IDF was already reckoning on the possibility of the Golan Heights becoming yet another war zone on Israel’s frontier. That fact that the Syrian army might join in the digging probably won’t be much of …

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Sadr backs Qatari initiative for Saudi-Iran dialogue

Moqtada al-Sadr, who also leads the Peace Brigades militia, is trying to invest in the failure of his main opponents and rivals to lead the Iraqi state, especially after many of them have turned into a burden for Iran because of the Iraqi public’s hostility to them.

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Iran Turns Gaza Into Storehouse for Weapons

Instead of storing medicine and vaccines, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are busy storing rockets and explosive devices. The Palestinian terror groups that moan about a crippling economic crisis in the Gaza Strip somehow always seem to find enough money to purchase, smuggle or manufacture weapons.

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Pope Francis, Shiite leader al-Sistani to meet in historic Iraq trip

Francis and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani are scheduled to meet in the Iraqi city of Najaf during the first papal visit to the country. Pope Francis will meet with Iraq’s leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, during his upcoming visit to the Middle East country — the first ever …

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Iran’s FM tweets ‘reality check’ to US on nuclear deal

Iran’s foreign minister responded over Twitter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s comments regarding US reentry to the deal. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s first press conference caught the attention of Iranian media and officials in Tehran when he addressed the reentry of the United States into the …

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