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Ms. Stroul said assessing the post-Suleimani era is instructive because the command and control of the Quds Force was degraded. “We have seen Iran-backed militia groups take decisions into their own hands under the leadership of Qaani, as well the rise of rival power centers in Iran,” Ms. Stroul said, referring to Gen. Ismail Qaani, […]
Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images Emergency personnel extinguish a fire at the site of strikes which hit a building next to the Iranian embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus on April 1, 2024. Washington CNN — The United States told Iran it was not involved and had no advance knowledge of
American warplanes destroyed or severely damaged most of the Iranian and militia targets they struck in Syria and Iraq on Friday, according to the Pentagon, the first major salvos in what President Biden and his aides have said will be a sustained campaign. Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said on Monday […]
CNN — The US destroyed or damaged 84 out of 85 targets in its sweeping series of airstrikes on Friday in Syria and Iraq, according to two US defense officials, with no indications of Iranian casualties.
BEIRUT — British forces on Saturday joined their American allies in new attacks against militia in Yemen. The U.S. military earlier launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in western Iraq and eastern Syria in retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in late January that killed three U.S. service members and […]
The United States has led a major wave of retaliatory strikes in the Middle East, hitting scores of targets belonging to Iranian-backed armed groups since Friday. The strikes are a sharp escalation of hostilities in the region, one that President Biden had sought to avoid since the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza began […]
The US has launched airstrikes on Iraq and Syria targeting Iranian-backed militias. The move comes in retaliation for a drone attack on an American base in Jordan that resulted in the deaths of three US service members. It is the latest escalation in the Middle East that has been growing increasingly unstable since the Hamas […]
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military has launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in western Iraq and eastern Syria in retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in late January that killed three U.S. service members and wounded dozens. Tensions had been rising since the
‘We will continue to take action,’ says U.S Central Command Leila Sackur The U.S. will continue to take action against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups, a U.S. Central Command (CentCom) Commander said, the morning after U.S forces struck more than 80 targets in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. will “do whatever is […]
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