A Norwegian-operated oil field in Iraqi Kurdistan was hit by a drone strike on Thursday, in the second attack in as many days which local officials cited by Reuters blamed on Iran-backed groups.
A recent flurry of high-level meetings across Central Asia and the Middle East signals a quiet but marked shift: Iran and Russia are increasingly sidelined in the region’s political and economic realignments in favor of Arab states.
Israel's police announced on Thursday it had arrested an Israeli soldier they say was in contact with Iranian operatives and took money in exchange for information.
The official website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday published an AI-generated cartoon appearing to depict Jews and Israeli soldiers as frightened rats fleeing Iranian missiles on an American flag-draped vessel at sea.
Georgia’s security services have arrested a Georgian and a Turkish national accused of attempting to sell $3 million worth of uranium capable of being used in a bomb, officials said Thursday.
Iran’s top military commanders warned on Thursday that the armed forces are ready to resume fighting in the wake of the 12-day war with Israel amid a ceasefire brokered by the US.
Three of Iran’s most resource-rich provinces, Khuzestan, Kerman and Hormozgan, recorded the highest levels of economic hardship in spring 2025, the news site Rokna reported Thursday, citing official statistics from the Iranian Statistics Center.
Iran’s escalating mass deportations of Afghan refugees are putting thousands of women and girls at serious risk of Taliban persecution, Amnesty International said Thursday, calling on Tehran to halt what it called flagrant violations of international law.
Just one of the three nuclear facilities struck by the US in Iran last month has been destroyed, according to a report by NBC News citing current and former US officials.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was forced to complete part of a recent trip to Tabriz by taxi after the fuel in three official vehicles was found to be contaminated with water, leading to a mechanical failure, a senior government official said on Tuesday.
A US professor has been suspended following comments publicly calling for Iran to carry out a "symbolic strike" on a US military base in response to recent attacks on the country’s main nuclear facilities.
US President Donald Trump expects Iran to return to nuclear negotiations, saying that diplomacy is in Tehran's best interest, according to the State Department Spokeswoman Tammy Bruce.
Tehran’s commentariat is sounding the alarm over the economic toll of renewed United Nations sanctions that European powers say they could trigger against Iran by the end of August.
Democratic lawmakers have demanded a formal reckoning of the costs and results of a surprise US attack on Iranian nuclear sites last month with mixed success, as misgivings with the strikes persists in some quarters of Congress.
Iran submitted a formal complaint to the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) over the unauthorized provision of Starlink satellite services within its territory last month amid the country's war with Israel.
Iranian jamming of GPS devices aims to baffle Israeli drones and missiles after a punishing wave of assassinations in a war last month, but now mostly thwarts daily commutes and food deliveries for ordinary citizens.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Iran's nuclear program had been dealt an irreparable blow by US attacks last month and that he was in no rush to resume negotiations with Tehran despite its alleged eagerness.
Yemeni forces fighting the Iran-backed Houthi movement have carried out their largest ever seizure of advanced Iranian conventional weapons bound for the group, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday signed a nuclear cooperation deal with Bahrain and in an apparent reference to Iran said Washington was ready to back peaceful nuclear programs which do not menace neighbors.
Israel launched a national media campaign on Wednesday warning citizens against spying for Iran, cautioning that cooperating with Tehran could lead to imprisonment.
Iranian state media on Wednesday announced the death of a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander five days after the death of top figure who also helped oversee the Islamic Republic’s suppression of protests.