Middle East

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Sunday that the US will designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels as a “foreign terrorist organization”.

Iran's state media, in addition to the United States, has been blaming several other countries including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Germany and Britain for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani in January 2020.
 

Yemen’s prime minister on Thursday accused the Houthi militias and Iran of being responsible for the deadly explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden.

At least six Iran-backed fighters were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike targeting the groups in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.

Israel airstrikes have destroyed warehouses and headquarters in the area of the scientific research centre, the “Defense Factories”, where Iranian militias are stationed in Syria, a monitor

Top U.S officials on Wednesday agreed on several options to present to President Donald Trump aimed at protecting U.S. military or diplomat personnel in Iraq from further attacks, Reuters reported. 

Iraq is banning travels to and from eight countries to prevent the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus, a government statement said on Tuesday.

The United States has blamed Iran-backed militias for a rocket attack Sunday on the Green Zone in Iraq’s capital.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein warned Tehran against interfering in Gulf affairs, Middle East Monitor reported on Tuesday citing the minister’s interview with Bahraini newspaper.

Four brigades affiliated with Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani decided to support the state against opposition movements from some militias backed by Iran, Al Monitor reported.