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Four people were wounded yesterday in an attack on Balad air base in northern Iraq which houses U.S. personnel. The Iraqi military said in a statement that eight Katyusha rockets had been fired at the base, about 80 km north of …
The Iranian missile strike on American facilities in Iraq was a calibrated event intended to cause minimal casualties, give the Iranians a face-saving measure and provide an opportunity for both sides to step back from the brink of war, senior …
U.S. forces at Iraqi bases most likely had some warning before missiles launched by Iran struck this morning, thanks to a facility devoted to detecting and providing alerts about launches anywhere in the world, according to public documents and a …
Iranian state television said that at least 80 American soldiers were killed in attacks involving 15 missiles Tehran launched on U.S. targets in Iraq, adding that none of the missiles were intercepted. State TV, citing a senior …
Iraqi security forces have regained control of the area around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad after the compound was rocked by a second day of mass protests. Yesterday, security personnel fired tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of …
According to the head of the Hormozgan Provincial Police, Goliamreza Jafari, the Internet agitators of recent protests against rising gas prices were detained. “31 people were detained in the provinces in coordination with the …
The six-hour talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the Syrian settlement that took place in Sochi yesterday were radical in nature in comparison with other …
Yemen's Houthi movement has said it carried out an attack near the border with the southwestern Saudi region of Najran and captured several army officers, but there was no immediate confirmation from the authorities …
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi responded to Rhyad’s official accusations in organizing an attack on Saudi oil infrastructure. “Instead of baseless accusations against others, the Saudi government should put …
Today, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adil al-Jubair officially accused Iran of attacking the kingdom’s oil infrastructure. “We are convinced that the launches were made not from Yemen, but from the north of Iran,” RIA …
Supertanker Adrian Darya 1, which the U.S. is seeking to seize for carrying Iranian oil, is no longer signaling the port of Iskenderun in Turkey, Bloomber reports. The vessel has showing “for order” as its destination, …
Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Iran is capable of shutting the Strait of Hormuz, but doesn’t want to do it. "We certainly have the ability to do it, but we certainly …
Saudi Arabia threatens Iran 'grave consequences' for airport and tankers attack
Spokesperson for the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Stephane Dujarric, said that the Secretary General is following with growing concern recent incidents and hardening rhetoric in the Gulf region. In …
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan rejected on Saturday the US opinion that purchases of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems could in any way endanger the security of NATO and US military technology. “The S-400s we buy are …
Indian Interior Minister Rajnath Singh said today that over the past five years, India has attacked Pakistan three times, all of which were "surgical blows." He spoke about the first two attacks, and the third left a secret. …
Iran is to send its newest warship to the Atlantic Ocean on a five-month mission -- the navy's longest in a decade, as the Republic seeks to increase the operating range of its naval forces to the backyard of the United States, its arch-foe, …
Iran, Venezuela and Iraq intends to block a proposal to increase oil production backed by Saudi Arabia and Russia when OPEC and its allies meet in Vienna this week. "Three OPEC founders are going to stop it," Iran’s …
The scale of the protests in Iran showed that, even with some external influence, the main impulse of demonstrations against price increases and other actions of Hassan Ruhani’s government proceeded from the very Iranian …
A new turn in Iran's domestic political life, which has little in common with demonstrations of 2009.
