U.S. has issued a National Terrorism Advisory bulletin warning of a potential cyberattack by Iran in the wake of a U.S. drone attack that killed a senior Iranian military commander.
Ceremonies have begun in the Iranian city of Ahvaz to honor Qasem Soleimani, the commander or Iran's Quds Force who was killed earlier in the week by a U.S. air strike while traveling in a convoy in Iraq.
The United States has designated Asaib Ahl Al-Haq as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), saying the Iraqi militia is a proxy for Iran.
On January 3, a U.S. air strike in Baghdad killed Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian commander who led the elite Quds Force wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Soleimani was considered one of the most powerful men in Iran and the architect of Tehran's foreign policy in the region.
A U.S. airstrike killed Iran's Qods Force Commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis late Thursday, January 2 in Baghdad.
Iranian state television reported on January 2 that a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit the town of Sangan in northeastern Iran.
An Iranian-backed militia has vowed revenge for U.S. military strikes in Iraq and Syria that killed 25 militants.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the United States and the European Union should either comply with the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran, or recognize it as nonexistent.
The United States said on December 29 that it had bombed five targets in Iraq and Syria controlled by an Iraqi Shi'a paramilitary group with suspected ties to Iran's elite Quds Force.
Alireza Firouzja, a top-rated chess player from Iran and the world's number two ranked junior player, has won the silver medal at the World Rapid & Blitz chess championship.
Protesters in Iraq have shut down a southern oil field and forced a cutoff of electricity at the facility amid ongoing unrest that has wracked the capital and much of southern Iraq since public anger first boiled over nearly three months ago.
A civilian U.S. defense contractor has been killed in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, the Pentagon says.
Iran-backed groups assailed Iraq’s president for refusing to name their chosen candidate to the post of prime minister, although thousands of people took to the streets of Baghdad in support of the president’s decision.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday discussed events in Iran and North Korea with US President Donald Trump in a lengthy phone call, the Kyodo news agency reported.
Heavy smog has caused Tehran officials to order the closure of dozens of schools and suspend outdoor sporting activities in the Iranian capital.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned Iran of a "decisive" response if U.S. interests are harmed in Iraq following rocket attacks on bases used by U.S. troops.
An army complex that hosts U.S. forces next to Baghdad International Airport was hit by several rockets on December 9, wounding six Iraqi troops, the military said in a statement.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he sees no need to boost the number of U.S. forces in the Middle East, a day after a Pentagon official suggested Washington was considering sending additional troops to the region.
The United States says it is considering sending thousands of additional troops to the Middle East over concerns about Iranian actions in the region.
Russian state nuclear company Rosatom has suspended work on modernizing a unit of Iran's Fordow nuclear complex due to an issue with uranium compatibility, Rosatom's nuclear fuel cycle unit TVEL said on December 5.
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