Two US, one British personnel killed in Iraq rocket attack: officials
Reuters – One British and two American personnel were killed and about a dozen people were wounded when 18 small rockets hit…
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After a buildup to counter Iran, US troops begin leaving Mideast
The Wall Street Journal | Nancy A. Youssef and Gordon Lubold: U.S. trimming the 90,000 troops across the region as Iran, ravaged…
US bringing missile defense systems to Iraq in bid to protect troops against ‘potential Iranian attack’ – CENTCOM
RT – Pulling out the ‘Iran threat’ card, the head of the US Central Command has announced that Washington is in the…
Iran’s Judiciary Chief: Pursuing Gen. Soleimani’s assassination case, ‘a symbol of defending the oppressed’
MNA – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said on Tue. that pursuing the assassination case of former IRGC Quds Force…
Speculations surround Shamkhani’s visit to Iraq
Asharq Al-Awsat | Hamza Mustafa: Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for a…
Countdown to US expulsion from region began on Jan. 3: Shamkhani
MNA – Iranian security official said that the US’ act of terror in targeting commanders of Resistance Axis on Jan. 3 clicked…
Iran’s security chief in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials
Press TV – Iran’s top security official has traveled to Baghdad to hold talks with Iraqi officials and political leaders on security and political…
Iran rallies religious leaders to expel US forces from Iraq
Al-Monitor | Hamdi Malik: Iran is continuing efforts to encourage anti-Americanism in the Middle East, especially in Iraq, to secure its own…
How US policy of individual assassination could ignite a mach-feared Iran war
Iran Review | Alireza Hashemi: America has issued an official death threat against IRGC’s Quds Force Commander Esmail Qaani, following the “targeted…
Europe still needs INSTEX to help solve the Iran crisis
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj and Sahil Shah: Over the last few months, the mission of INSTEX has grown significantly more…
German MPs sue Merkel, ministers for Berlin’s role in assassination of Gen. Soleimani
FNA – Eight MPs from Germany’s far-left Left (Die Linke) party announced Thursday they had filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela…
Iranians’ petition against Gen. Soleimani assassins submitted to UN Rights Chief
Tasnim – A petition that Iranian people have signed against the US after the American assassination of top commander Lt. General Qassem…
Trump confessed Iran hates Daesh, US stole Syrian oil: Zarif
Press TV – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has underscored a confession by US President Donald Trump that the Islamic Republic…
US seeks to stay in Iraq by any means: Iraqi politician
MNA | Fatemeh Salehi: A member of the Political office of the National Wisdom Movement in Iraq Fadi al-Shammari emphasized that the…
Additional US service member diagnosed with brain injury from Iran attack
The Hill – One more U.S. service member has been diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury following Iran’s January missile strike in…
‘Hit with a truck’ – How Iran’s missiles inflicted brain injury on US troops
Reuters | Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali: In the wee hours of Jan. 8, Tehran retaliated over the U.S. killing of Iran’s most powerful…
US assassination of Soleimani breached international norms: UN rapporteur
Press TV – A United Nations (UN) special rapporteur says the US assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani…
Like the ‘Titanic,’ the glory of the US won’t prevent it from sinking… and it will sink – Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei
RT – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denounced the US ahead of Iran’s elections, likening Washington to a sinking ocean…
Al-Nujaba to strike at US: report
MNA – According to the Zionist Jerusalem Post paper, more serious threats made by leaders of al-Nujaba in this week shows that…
World to be less at ease after assassination of Lt. Gen. Soleimani: spox
MNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that the world will be less at ease after the assassination of Lt.…
White House effectively admits Iran did not pose an ‘imminent threat’
MSNBC | Steve Benen – We’re dealing with a dynamic in which the president risked a war for reasons that now appear…
Larijani reviews regional developments with Nasrallah
Tasnim – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani held separate meetings with Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah and Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic…
Larijani voices Iran’s readiness for helping Lebanon
IRNA – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Monday called for promoting Tehran-Beirut relations and expressed his country’s readiness for helping Lebanon…
All of your positions in range of our fire
MNA – Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami has warned Zionists that all the regions they…
Trump administration most arrogant, corrupt in US history: Nasrallah
Tasnim – US President Donald Trump’s administration is the most arrogant, unjust and corrupt in the history of the United States, said…
Iran, Iraq agree to form joint committee for inquiry into General Soleimani’s assassination
IRNA – A visiting Iraqi judicial delegation agreed on Sunday with an offer by Iran on forming a joint committee for inquiry…
Becoming stronger only way to defeat enemy, official says
IRNA – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that against the foreign pressure, there is no way for us…
Iran, Iraq FMs examine assassination of Gen. Soleimani
IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed al-Hakim on Sunday exchanged views how to probe into…
Hezbollah unveils statue of Iran’s Soleimani near Israeli border
Radio Farda – Lebanon’s Hezbollah Saturday unveiled a statue of Iran’s slain Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani near the Israeli border, to…
Iran Judiciary Chief: Legal case launched over assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani
Tasnim – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Hojatoleslam Seyed Ebrahim Raeisi said a legal case has been launched in the Tehran prosecutor’s office in…
White House cites 2002 Iraq war measure to justify Soleimani assassination
The Wall Street Journal | Warren P. Strobel: The Trump administration justified the Jan. 3 strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani…
How months of miscalculation led the US and Iran to the brink of war
The New York Times | Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman and Farnaz Fassihi: In late September, a plane carrying senior Iranian officials touched…
Pentagon tit-for-tat with Iran goes on
Al-Monitor | Jack Detsch: The Pentagon announced that a rocket struck an Iraqi base housing American troops today and that US forces…
The Senate finally found its spine when it came to limiting Trump’s war powers
Euronews | Anthony Marcum: It is not a coincidence that the founders gave the power to “declare war” and “raise and support…
Iranian cmdr. says US must come out and admit damages to Ain al-Asad base
IRNA – Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier-General Ali Fadavi said on Saturday that Tehran has a large…
Trump pushed US and Iran ‘close to the brink,’ Iran’s Zarif tells NBC News
NBC News | Dan De Luce: Iran and the U.S. exchanged angry letters during the recent confrontation that followed the U.S. drone…
FM Zarif says General Soleimani assassination a miscalculation by US
IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late on Friday that the US killing of a top Iranian general was…
White House memo says strike on Iranian commander responded to past attacks
Reuters – President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian military commander last month in response to past…
Photos: 40th day of Gen. Soleimani’s martyrdom commemorated in Ilam
IRNA – The commemoration ceremony of the 40th day of Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani’s martyrdom was held in Ilam on Thursday.
‘Hard Revenge’ to continue until expulsion of US forces from region
MNA – Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh vowed on Friday that Iran’s ‘hard revenge’ in retaliation…