Blinken Says Made Clear to Iran Support Provided to Houthis Must Stop
MANAMA, Bahrain, Jan 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday there will be consequences for continued attacks on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea by Yemen-based Iran-backed Houthis and that it...
Iran Regime-Backed Hezbollah Hits Israeli Base, Says It Does Not Want Wider War
BEIRUT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Hezbollah attacked an Israeli army base with explosive drones deployed from Lebanon on Tuesday, hitting the position for the first time in what the Iran-backed group declared part of its response to...
Teenager Barzin Hamzeh-Zadeh Was Tortured to Death in Iranian Prison, Hengaw Says
By Natasha Phillips
Barzin Hamzeh-Zadeh, a 16-year-old Kurdish boy arrested in November 2022 during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests in Iran, died on Jan. 4 of injuries sustained while being tortured in prison, the human...
Fire and Blast at Iran Cosmetics Factory Injure 53
DUBAI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A huge fire broke out at a cosmetics factory in a central Iranian town causing a blast that injured several people, Iran's state media reported on Tuesday.
The blast was caused by a gas leak, according to the...
Three Members of Iran Regime-Backed Hezbollah Killed in South Lebanon
BEIRUT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Three members of Iran-aligned Hezbollah were killed on Tuesday in a targeted strike on their vehicle in the town of Ghandouriyeh in the south of Lebanon, two sources familiar with the...
Jordanian Jets Strike Iran-Linked Drug Dealers Inside Syria
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
AMMAN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Jordanian jets conducted four strikes inside Syria on Tuesday in the second such raid within a week against suspected farms and hideouts of Iran-linked drug smugglers, regional intelligence sources said.
Jordan's...
Canada, Partners Take Iran to UN Council Over Downed Ukrainian Jet
OTTAWA, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Canada, Britain, Sweden and Ukraine on Monday formally complained to the U.N. aviation council in their bid to hold Iran accountable for the downing of a passenger airliner in January 2020 that killed 176 people,...
Israel Shifts to Deadlier Strikes on Iran Regime-Linked Targets in Syria
By Laila Bassam, Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Maya Gebeily
BEIRUT/AMMAN, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Israel is carrying out an unprecedented wave of deadly strikes in Syria targeting cargo trucks, infrastructure and people involved in Iran's weapons lifeline to its...
Amid Fears of a Wider War, Israel Says It Is Fighting Several Iran Regime-Backed...
By Simon Lewis, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose
ABU DHABI/GAZA/JERUSALEM, Jan 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Monday before heading on to Israel after...
