An Iranian naval destroyer, the Alborz, has passed through the Bab el-Mandab Strait and entered the Red Sea amid soaring tensions in the waters, Iranian media reported on Monday. The news came after US Navy helicopters sank three boats belonging to Yemen's Houthis,...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has called for the US to bomb Iran in response to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, saying Iranian bases and oil fields should be blown "off the map." The hawkish senator claimed that without Iran, there would be no Houthis. But the Houthis,...
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said two of its members stationed in Syria as advisors were killed by Israeli airstrikes, The Associated Press reported Saturday, citing the IRGC's website. The Syrian news agency SANA reported that Israeli airstrikes...
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would force the president to permanently freeze $6 billion in Iranian funds that were briefly made available to Tehran as part of a prisoner swap deal. Under the deal, the US and Iran exchanged prisoners, and the US allowed the...
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said that Tehran expressed to the US through back channels that it does not want the Gaza war to escalate into a regional conflict while also warning escalation was inevitable if Israel didn't stop its campaign....
The House on Wednesday passed a resolution that suggested the US would use force against Iran in the future in the name of preventing the country from acquiring nuclear weapons. The resolution says a nuclear-armed Iran is "unacceptable" and declares that it's the...
The Pentagon said Tuesday that US troops stationed in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 13 times within a week as the US is backing Israel's bombardment of Gaza. Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said between October 17 and 24, troops in Iraq came under...
An Israeli official has vowed that Iran would be "wiped off the face of the earth" if Hezbollah opens up a northern front for Israel. Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire along the Lebanon-Israel border since the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel. There...
Amid concerns about Israel's onslaught in Gaza escalating into a regional war, the Iranian mission to the UN said Sunday that it would only enter the fighting if Israel attacked Iran. "Iran’s armed forces will not engage, provided that the Israeli apartheid does not...
The US and Qatar have agreed to deny Iran access to $6 billion of its own funds that were recently released as part of a prisoner swap deal with the US, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The $6 billion was frozen in South Korea due to US sanctions on Iran that...
