For decades, Iran has protected itself with a network of well-funded, heavily armed and deeply radicalized militant groups.

Such assessments of Netanyahu sound absurd today, as Israel wages war on Iran for the second time, having dismantled the regime’s proxy armies—Hamas and Hezbollah—and assassinated its supreme leader.

An Iran-led order that long backed the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis – is gone. What will follow is one of the top questions of modern geopolitics.

Hassan Toufanian, his Deputy Minister of War and Armaments, to Israel to hold secret talks with the newly formed Likud government of Menachem Begin. Three months earlier, the Shah had signed six ‘oil ...

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Among Moscow’s allies, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured in January, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in December 2024. Khamenei's death marks a major strategic setback ...

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been killed in an attack by Israel and the United States. He was 86. Iranian state media confirmed the death in the early hours on Sunday after US ...

Joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran have killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader for nearly four decades, thrusting the country into uncertainty and sparking a war that could draw in ...

An embittered population toils under a sanctions-hit economy. Huge protests in January were crushed at a cost of thousands of ...

Syrian government replaces Kurds as main US ally, officials say US had pledged to protect Kurds, secure IS prisons, sources say January meetings created momentum for offensive DAMASCUS, Syria Jan 21 ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the “butcher of Hama” for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully ...

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