Middle East

Fire at Baghdad’s al-Khatib Hospital that led to the death of at least 82 on Saturday night was sabotaged by Hashd al-Shaabi forces, an eyewitness told Avatoday on Thursday.

International media on Saturday was filled with reports about an alleged “drone” attack on an Iran-owned tanker off the coast of Syria.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are resuming talks behind closed doors after years of troubling diplomacy, Financial Times and Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar reported.

More than 2,000 retired Israeli officers in a letter called on US President Joe Biden's administration country not to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal.

Turkey wants to deport Afshin Sohrabzadeh, a Kurdish political activist to Iran, his wife Fereshteh Tajmiri told Avatoday.

Iran and Saudi Arabia have reportedly been holding direct talks in Baghdad to restore relations and end the Yemen civil war.

Israel’s foreign minister vowed on Friday that they will stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon, The Times of Israel reported.

Syrian Observatory Human Rights activists have documented new Israeli bombardment on military positions belonging to Iranian-backed militias near Damascus in the early hours of Thursday morning, the group’s website reported.

Leili Faraji, Mohammad Pourakbari Kermani, Zeinab Sahafi, and Esmaeil Fattahi, four Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey who have been arrested on April 5 face deportation to Iran, sayid Asylum Seekers’ Council in a statement.

An Iranian military vessel stationed in the Red Sea was damaged apparently by an Israeli mine attack on Tuesday, The New York Times reported.