Middle East

Israel’s military intelligence chief Major General Tamir Hyman said Iran may use its increasing influence in Iraq to attack Israel, Sputnik News reported on Tuesday.

A report by New York Times on Thursday suggests that Syrians face a “brittle future” as Iranians, Russians, Turks, Bashar Assad and ISIS divide the territory among each other.

Hashd al-Shabi an Iranian-backed Shia militia that took control over Kurdish areas of Shingal and Kirkuk in October 16, 2017 is now trying to convince the Yezidis to convert to Shiite Islam, dwellers told Avatoday.

The chief of Israel Defence Forces Gadi Eisenkot announced that Iran is seeking further influence in Syria by enormously increasing its current ground troops in Syria.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched drill near Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, a day after US carrier sailed into Persian Gulf.

The widow and daughters of the Ezidi Progress Party leader, Waad Hamad Mato (DoB 1967), arrived in Paris December 20, 2018, after four years of being rejected for asylum by other countries.  They were on the first plane of 20 Yezidi families promised asylum by French President M

Iranian militias are reportedly hiding behind Russian flags and use their positions in Syria’s Hama and Idlib to avoid Israel’s frequent strikes, Syrian activists quoted by Qasioun News Agency on Friday.

More than 700,000 undocumented Afghans have left Iran due to the financial and economic crises that hit the country, Reuters reported, referring to recent data by UN migration agency.

An official document received by Avatoday shows that Iraqi government blocked the properties of an Iranian bank and a group company and banned money transactions and financial deals with another bank aimed at cutting off terrorist’s funding and money laundering.

Saudi Arabia’s king Salman asked the international community on Monday to act against the Islamic Republic’s military program including its nuclear and ballistic development, Reuters reported.