Middle East

The Arab League has slammed Iran’s ongoing interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries in a statement, saying that it poses a risk to the regional stability.

Unidentified warplanes hit a base in Syria on Saturday night, killing seven Iran-backed militias, a UK-based Syrian opposition war monitor group announced.

Monitor group reported on Tuesday that airstrikes believed to be Israeli targeted pro-Iran Shiite militias’ arm warehouses east of Aleppo in northern Syria and militia bases in Deir Ezzor in the east of the country late Monday.

Israeli warplanes on Monday attacked targets belonging to Iran and its proxy Lebanon’s Hezbollah in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Russian government has delivered its new T-14 Armata battle tank in Syria, reportedly to test and resolve any possible issues with the new production, Middle East Monitor reported.

A letter received by Avatoday on Friday showed five Kurdish law makers in Iraqi Kurdistan confirmed the role of the region’s security forces in deporting a political prisoner to Iran, who was executed two weeks ago.

Alireza Fethi Kuhi, an Iranian asylum seeker in Turkey who has been granted resident permit in the United States in 2016, was arrested on March 11 and is in danger of deportation to his hometown.

Turkish intelligent forces reveled to Reuters that two Iranian diplomats at Iran’s consulate in Istanbul instigated the killing of an Iranian dissident back in November.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday announced some 96 cases of patients with the Coronavirus in the state-run region of Syria.  

Four people in Iraqi Kurdistan, who have infected with the new coronavirus, had traveled to Iran, local media reported.