Foreign Policy

A Ukrainian airliner burst into flames shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard in a crash that an initial report blamed on engine failure, Reuters informs. Debris and smoldering engine […]

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Iran attacked an American base in western Iraq early Wednesday, Iranian official news media and United States officials said, the start of what Iran had promised would be retaliation for the killing of a top […]

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Less than a week after Iran’s top military commander was killed by U.S. drone strike, the regime said Sunday that it would further scale back compliance with an international nuclear pact, CNBC reported. Iran will […]

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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians thronged Tehran’s streets on Monday for the funeral of military commander Qassem Soleimani, killed by a U.S. drone strike last week, and his daughter said his death would bring a […]

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President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his threats to attack Iranian cultural sites and warned of a “major retaliation” if the Iranian government planned tit-for-tat attacks in the aftermath of the killing of […]

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In the videos captured from the attack on the American Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, some of the attackers are carrying flags. The distinctive yellow flag picturing a raised fist holding an AK-47 at the center belongs […]

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On Saturday night, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump’s tweetstorm on Iran as “dangerous and irresponsible”. Earlier the same night Trump threatened to hit Iranian sites if there is retaliation for Qassem […]

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A number of world leaders raised alarms to the news of a U.S. airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, one of Iran’s top generals of the Revolutionary Guard. The leaders of China, Russia, and France said […]

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President Donald Trump said Friday he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general “to stop a war,” not start one, but in the tense aftermath the Pentagon braced for retaliation by sending more troops […]

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U.S. security services had tracked Iran’s top military commander Qassem Soleimani for years and on multiple occasions considered taking him out, current and former U.S. officials said, but they were always reluctant to act, Reuters […]

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Israel put its military on heightened alert on Friday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a trip abroad after the U.S. killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani drew promises of revenge from Iran, Reuters […]

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Tehran vowed harsh revenge after the United States killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force and architect of Iran’s spreading military influence in the Middle East, in an airstrike on Friday […]

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Shortly after the Pentagon announced that U.S. forces conducted an airstrike killing one of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard top general a divided reaction from Capitol Hill flooded the media, with Republicans praising the move, while Democrats […]

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A general of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been killed in a US airstrike on the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Iraqi state television confirmed Friday that General Qassem Soleimani was killed while traveling in his convoy near […]

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An uneasy calm enveloped the U.S. Embassy in Iraq on Thursday as new images from the scene revealed extensive damage following days of sometimes violent protests by Iranian-backed militia members and their supporters, USA Today […]

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Iran-backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday after two days of clashes with American security forces, but U.S.-Iran tensions remain high and could spill over into further violence, The Associated […]

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China has temporarily blocked planned cross-border listings between the Shanghai and London stock exchanges because of political tensions with Britain, five sources told Reuters. Suspending the Shanghai-London Stock Connect scheme casts a shadow over the […]

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As the civil war in Syria rages on, the White Helmets, an all-volunteer rescue organization, have defied death to rush headfirst toward airstrikes. They served as a beacon to the trapped and desperately wounded that […]

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Thousands of protesters and militia fighters gathered on Tuesday outside the main gate of the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad to condemn airstrikes on bases belonging to an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq, Reuters writes. U.S. […]

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