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Iran has vowed to retaliate after it accused Israel of bombing its embassy complex in Syria. An airstrike destroyed the consulate building in the capital Damascus on Monday,  killing at least seven officials including Mohammed Reza Zahedi, a top commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), and senior commander Mohammad …

At least seven officers overseeing Iran’s covert operations in the Middle East were killed in Damascus on Monday, when Israeli warplanes struck part of the Iranian Embassy complex in the Syrian capital, according to a statement by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. The strike killed three generals in Iran’s Quds Force, the …

Iran executed a ‘staggering’ total of at least 834 people last year, the highest number since 2015 as capital punishment surged in the Islamic Republic, two rights groups said Tuesday.     At least 22 women were executed, marking the highest number in the past decade, the report said.      …

From the first minute of a breathless match, Qatar and Iran went directly at each other when in possession and they delivered a treat to watch. Iran opened the scoring in the third minute with Sardar Azmoun producing a brilliant overhead kick, leaving the Qatari goalkeeper and the defence as …

Iran scrape past underdogs Syria in a penalty shootout to set up a quarterfinal blockbuster against Japan. Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Qatar – What do you get when you take two football-mad countries, pit them against each other in a compact stadium and put a championship knockout berth on the …

Key donors to the United Nations agency that aids civilians in Gaza have signaled they will continue to support the organization under the right conditions despite Israeli accusations that some of its employees were involved with terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7. That support, which comes as the Israeli …

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deadly twin bomb blasts near the burial site of killed military commander Qasem Soleimani in southern Iran. At least 84 people were killed and 284 injured in the blasts on Wednesday, January 3, Iranian state-run news agency IRNA reported, in what was the deadliest …

A pair of explosions on Wednesday at a memorial for Iran’s former top general, Qassim Suleimani, killed at least 103 people and wounded an additional 211, according to Iranian officials, sowing fear in a country where domestic unrest and the prospect of a spiraling regional war have left many on …

  The Islamic Republic of Iran has claimed that Hamas’s October 7 attacks were in revenge for a 2020 assassination of a top Iranian general. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in 2020 called the US strike that killed Qasem Soleimani a “terrorist act” .   On Wednesday, IRGC spokesman …

Iran accused Israel on Monday of killing a high-level military figure in a missile strike in Syria at a time when concerns are growing that the war in Gaza could escalate into a regional conflict. The assassinated Iranian was identified as Brig. Gen. Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior adviser to …