Following frequent exchange of fire with Hezbollah on the Lebanese border since the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October last year, Israel has escalated its intensive airstrikes on Hezbollah strongholds and other targets since September 23. In addition to the explosions of communicati...
Israel has frequently carried out missile strikes on Syrian targets, but hitting residential areas is uncommon and usually implies an assassination attempt. The incident follows a similar attack on Jan. 20, when five IRGC officers were killed in a missile strike on the Western Mazzeh Villas neighb...
Iranian state media claimed the country used its new ballistic Fattah missile in its attack on Israel on Tuesday night. There is some doubt, however. Defence and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke said: "If [Iran was] using it, I think they would have used more of it...
Reflecting on the Iranian strikes on Israel, Mr Khamenei told Tehran's allies in region: "We're defending ourselves but we're also defending you against a common enemy that through violence and terror seeks to destroy our way of life." Read more: Woman kidnapped by IS f...
Iran’s supreme leader has praised the country’s recent missile strike on Israel and said it is ready to do it again if necessary.
Reports of strikes in Syria and Iraq Around the time that the sound of explosions were heard in Iran, Syria's state-run SANA news agency cited a military official as saying Israel had carried out a missile strike targeting an air defense unit in the country's south, causing material damage...
But to many in Israel, after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, a year of strikes from Hezbollah and the ramping up of the Houthis’ efforts out of Yemen — all of which are Iranian proxies — this attack by Iran further solidified in their minds what they’ve already believed: ...
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency on Monday quoted chief of Fatimayoun Brigade, an Iran-backed Afghan militia in Syria fighting alongside Iranian forces, as saying their base near Aleppo was not targeted during the strikes and they had no casualties. It did not elaborate. ...
The strikes were condemned by the United States as “reckless” and imprecise. Iranian forces said the midnight missile strike in Iraq destroyed “one of the main espionage headquarters” of Israel in Erbil, capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, in response to what they said were Isra...
Israel has also continued its strikes on southern Lebanon, where theyclaimed to have killed another senior Hezbollah figure.On Monday, Israel’s military forces pressed forward witha ground incursionto conduct what the government described as “limited, localized and targeted gro...