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Tens of thousands of U.S. troops are within Iran’s striking distance should President Trump decide to wade into Israel’s conflict with Tehran and directly attack the country. More than 40,000 ...

Israel has justified the attack by claiming that Iran was on a verge of a “breakout” in its nuclear programme. This means it ...

The bank-to-bank transfer using the SWIFT system was symbolically important, indicating the war-torn country was ...

Israel’s F-16I “Sufa” (Storm) multi-role fighters likely played a crucial role in “Operation Rising Lion,” the massive air ...

"This has been Iran’s strategy, sitting and waiting and looking to exploit opportunities across the entire northern tier of the Middle East, from Iraq to Syria to Lebanon. "Exploiting disarray ...

Mixed Reactions In Iran To Trump's Meeting With Sharaa: US President Donald Trump's historic meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, has not gone over well with ...

May 13 (UPI) --Syrians have endured "brutal and crippling" sanctions over the past 14 years, and it's time to end them, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, as he warned Iran ...

Iran dreamed up a U.S.-style Marshall Plan to rebuild Syria after the civil war. It invested billions to build influence there. Documents from its looted embassy in Damascus reviewed by Reuters ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran’s deputy foreign minister on Monday warned that Syria faces growing instability and foreign occupation as Israel escalates its military campaign and diplomatic ...

These routes are the last vestiges of the “land bridge” — a network traversing the breadth of Syria — used by Iran and its allied militias to ferry weapons, cash, drugs and fuel.

To drive his point home, Sharaa made trips to Iran's regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Turkey a priority soon after being declared Syria's interim president. Iran being frozen out by Syria's new ...