Israel has no justification to keep its forces inside a UN-demarcated buffer zone inside Syria now that Iran and its allied groups have been banished from the country, de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday.
Iraq is seeking to convince Iran-backed armed factions in the country to lay down their weapons or join the official security forces, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein told Reuters in an interview.
Even as a long-sought ceasefire in Gaza has yet to take effect, Iran's supreme leader and other top officials have already begun celebrating it as a victory for Palestinian fighters backed by Tehran.
Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal to end the Gaza war, US President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday, over 15 months after the October 7 attack by Iran-backed militants triggered the bloody conflict.
While many analysts agree that Iran finds itself in a weakened position, a conservative commentator inside Iran claims that the unstable situation might shift in Tehran's favour.
Iran-backed operatives attempted to lure an Israeli businessman to the United Arab Emirates, Israel's National Security Council said on Tuesday, weeks after an Israeli rabbi was killed there.
Israel launched air strikes on Yemen’s Houthis and Lebanon’s Hezbollah over the weekend in a bid to further degrade the Iran-backed groups as tensions with Tehran continue to flare.
Nawaf Salam, head of the International Court of Justice, garnered sufficient support from lawmakers to be designated Lebanon’s next prime minister on Monday, according to Reuters.
The Iranian military kicked off a large-scale air defense exercise on Sunday, codenamed "Eqtedar" (Might), spanning the country's western and northern air defense zones.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Ankara seeks to strengthen ties with its eastern neighbor and expects Tehran to support its fight against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The election of Lebanon's US and Arab-backed president Joseph Aoun is not a defeat for Iran-backed Hezbollah, Tehran's ambassador to Beirut said on Friday, despite the former army chief suggesting the militia should be disarmed.
CIA Director William Burns suggested on Friday that Iran’s weakened strategic position marked by regional setbacks could open the door to renewed nuclear negotiations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Yemen's armed Houthi movement is advancing Iran's regional agenda and will face continued military action for their attacks on Israel.
A day after Iran’s Supreme Leader urged officials to dismiss US demands, a conservative newspaper in Tehran advocated for negotiations, describing them as the only viable path to addressing the country’s economic crisis.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has unveiled its latest loitering munition drone, the Rezvan, during the ongoing military drills codenamed Great Prophet 19.
Two senior IRGC commanders said this week that the Islamic Republic is currently unable to retaliate against Israel's October air strikes due to financial constraints and the loss of key regional ally Syria.
Iran is pivoting toward arming Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank following the downfall of Tehran’s ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Israel’s Defense Minister said on Tuesday.
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday urged the Security Council to hold Israel accountable for what he described as its destabilization of Syria.
The sudden departure of Bashar al-Assad from Damascus to Moscow exposed deep divisions between Iran’s government and its people. While state loyalists viewed the event as disastrous, many ordinary Iranians rejoiced in it with renewed hope.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Wednesday told the Iraqi prime minister that Tehran-backed militias should be strengthened and the United States must be ejected.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations says the Jewish state will keep supporting the Iranian nation's fight against the Islamic Republic.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Iran remains the Jewish state’s greatest threat as the country evaluates its latest defense budget.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has attributed the Syrian army's collapse to psychological warfare, warning that the rapid fall of the country's ally in Syria should serve as a cautionary tale for Tehran.
Iranian forces have largely withdrawn from Syria following the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad in December, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing US, European, and Arab officials.
Iraq’s prime minister is set to visit Tehran on Wednesday to discuss regional issues following the tumultuous events of 2024, including the overthrow of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and the decline of Iran’s regional influence.
Iran's foreign minister has warned Israel against the consequences of launching further airstrikes on the Islamic Republic, amid reports that the Israeli military is on high alert following a directive from the IDF chief.
Commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is visiting Baghdad to meet the leaders of Tehran-backed Shia groups as well as the Iraqi prime minister, Arab media reported Sunday.
Photos shared on social media show 'Free Iran' and 'Woman, Life, Freedom' slogans sprayed on the walls of Iran's embassy in Damascus.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Morgan Ortagus, a former State Department spokesperson and prominent critic of Iran, as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace.
At the start of 2024, Iran appeared to be riding high: ever closer to the threshold of nuclear weapons, its regional allies harassed Israel on multiple fronts and its Yemeni acolytes the Houthis choked commercial traffic from the Red Sea.
Following reports of an Iranian diplomat refusing to have his bag searched at Beirut Airport, Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry announced later that the funds in his possession were intended for embassy expenses and were eventually cleared for entry.
Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis are using Chinese-made weapons in their attack in the Red Sea, in exchange for immunity for ships flying the Chinese flag, i24NEWS reported citing US intelligence sources.
The number of people arrested in Israel over Iranian spy plots have shot up by 400% in 2024 in the wake of the Gaza war, according to Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency.
The year 2024 will be remembered as a momentous one for the Middle East, culminating in the collapse of the Assad dynasty’s 53-year rule over Syria, and ushering in a future fraught with both possibility and peril.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei defended Iran's involvement in Syria's civil war and his policy of power projection in the region, dismissing criticism of the country’s diminishing influence in the Middle East.
Five years ago, Qassem Soleimani was killed under the direct orders of then-US President Donald Trump, in a watershed moment in the Middle East, triggering a series of setbacks for the Islamic Republic.
Israel has announced the arrest of a 29-year-old man suspected of spying for Iran, the latest in a string of cases of Iran-backed plots being carried out by Israeli citizens.
Hamas dismissed an Israeli media report about the details of the assassination of the Iran-backed group's leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
In an interview with Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya, Syria’s new de-facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said he had expected a more positive engagement from Iran following the fall of the decades-long Assad government.
The spokesman for Yemen's Houthis says the Tehran-backed militants have shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over Al-Bayda governorate.