ERBIL—A rocket attack at a U.S.-led Coalition military base in Kurdish northern Iraq on Monday killed a civilian contractor and wounded six other people including a U.S. service member, according to initial reports, the U.S. coalition in Iraq said. It was the most deadly attack to hit U.S.-led forces for almost a year in Iraq, […]

WASHINGTON—As the number of illegal border crossings increases, experts are warning that the sheer volume makes it easier for potential terrorists to slip through the cracks. An average of about 3,000 people were arrested every day in January after crossing the southern border illegally, according to the latest statistics from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). […]

Commentary Critics of Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran are preparing for the same fight now that Joe Biden has made it clear he intends to reenter the deal from which Donald Trump withdrew. And because the last president showed that Obama’s foreign policy legacy was vulnerable to the vicissitudes of American politics, the […]

The Pentagon announced Sunday that the single U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Middle East, the USS Nimitz, will remain on duty in the region amid heightened tensions with Iran. It marks an abrupt reversal after acting defense secretary Christopher Milller said last week that he was sending the vessel home, a move that had […]

The military is bringing back the single U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Middle East in the midst of heightened tensions with Iran, said the Pentagon in a statement on Thursday. According to the statement, acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller directed the USS Nimitz—following a nearly 10-month—to return home. The ship had been providing support to […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iran’s cabinet has created a compensation fund to pay the families of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran last January, the president announced Wednesday. Iran will pay $150,000 for each victim, state TV reported, without specifying a timeline for the awards. […]

President Donald Trump issued a warning to Iran after rockets were fired at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Posting on Twitter a photo of the purported rockets, Trump said that the “embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets.” He made the comments as he was traveling to Mar-a-Lago in Florida for Christmas. […]

The House of Representatives voted to approve the War Powers resolution aimed at restraining President Donald Trump’s ability to use military action against Iran without the approval of Congress, coming a week after a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad amid escalating tensions between Tehran and Washington. The vote, a day after members of […]

Vice President Mike Pence said he believes Americans are “safer today” after the death of Iran’s top military general Qassem Soleimani. In an interview with CBS Evening News aired late Wednesday, host Norah O’Donnell asked Pence: “Everybody who’s related to one of those soldiers stationed in the Middle East is worried. Are we safer now?” […]

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced Monday that it has temporarily suspended its training operations in Iraq to ensure the safety of its personnel, amid tensions in the Middle East after the Jan. 2 killing of Qassem Soleimani. “In everything that we do, the safety of our personnel is paramount,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in […]

Republican members of Congress largely supported President Donald Trump’s decision to take out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani after a classified briefing while Democrats weren’t impressed and said they’d still push for a war powers resolution to halt military efforts against Iran. “It was probably the strongest and most decisive briefing that has ever been conducted […]

Commentary Qassem Soleimani was removed from the battlefield by U.S. drones, and the Iranian regime ordered the entire country to mourn him. Many Iranians didn’t, and sat it out, even though the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was shown with tears in his eyes. Regime leaders promised revenge. Those Iranians who did mourn generally did it […]

Iranian officials said missiles were launched at U.S. troops in Iraq in retaliation after Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani’s death in Baghdad, according to Iranian state-run media outlets, in an attack that was later confirmed by the Pentagon. A Pentagon spokesperson later confirmed missiles were fired at two or more Iraqi bases with American and coalition […]

A stampede erupted at a funeral procession for a top Iranian general killed in a U.S. airstrike last week, killing 32 people and injuring 190 others.

The U.S. Embassy in Israel warned American citizens of heightened tensions in the Middle East as a flurry of Iranian leaders threatened the United States with reprisals for the killing of General Qassem Soleimani. The embassy said in a Jan. 6 warning that Americans should stay on the alert “in the event of mortar or rocket […]

The leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah called on Shiite militias in the Middle East to attack American military assets—including suicide bombings—in the wake of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s death in Iraq. “It is the U.S. military that killed Haj Qassem, and they must pay the price,” said Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese group that […]

The cost of insuring against a potential debt default by Saudi Arabia has soared by over 16 percent since the killing by a U.S. drone of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani. International bonds issued by Saudi Arabia and its state oil giant Aramco were yielding around 10 basis points more on the long end of the […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement Sunday that the House will vote on a war powers resolution this week in a bid to curb President Donald Trump’s authority to pursue military initiatives against Iran amid growing tensions following a strike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Pelosi said in a letter to Democratic members […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad F. Wolf on Jan. 4 issued a new National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) bulletin following the killing of top Iranian military official General Qassem Soleimani by U.S. forces in Iraq. Wolf said that the DHS doesn’t have information about any “specific, credible threat” to the United […]

Democratic presidential contenders criticized the airstrike that President Donald Trump ordered overnight, killing Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Former Vice President Joe Biden said that Soleimani “deserved to be brought to justice” for killing American troops and innocent people but “none of that negates the fact that this is a hugely escalatory move in an already […]

The Iranian general killed by the United States should have been killed years ago, President Donald Trump said in his first comments about the strike. The United States took out Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, near Baghdad International Airport early on Jan. 3 local time. “General Qassem Soleimani has […]

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the country would take revenge after the United States took out Qassem Soleimani, commander of the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. “Years of sincere, brave efforts fighting against the devils & villainous in the world and years of wishing for martyrdom on the path of God finally took the dear […]

The airstrike which killed Iran's top military official divided Congress largely, with reactions both praising and condemning the actions of the President.

The Treasury Department on July 9 levied sanctions on a Hezbollah security official and two members of Lebanon’s Parliament suspected of using their positions to further the aims of the Tehran-backed militia and “bolster Iran’s malign activities.” Lawmakers Amin Sherri and Muhammad Hasan Ra’d as well as Hezbollah security official Wafiq Safa were designated under […]

PARIS/BAGHDAD—Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shi’ite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in the Middle East and to give it the means to hit regional foes, Iranian, Iraqi and Western sources said. Any sign that Iran is preparing a more aggressive missile […]

BAGHDAD–A political bloc led by populist Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq, has won the country’s parliamentary election, the electoral commission said on Saturday. Sadr himself cannot become prime minister because he did not run in the election, though his bloc’s victory, puts […]

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT—Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday, May 10, after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time. It was the heaviest Israeli barrage in Syria since the start in 2011 of its civil war, in which Iranians, allied Shi’ite militias, and Russian soldiers have deployed […]

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT—Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday, May 10, after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time. It was the heaviest Israeli barrage in Syria since the start in 2011 of its civil war, in which Iranians, allied Shi’ite militias, and Russian soldiers have deployed […]

The Syrian conflict has had outsized impact on global politics. Here are five ways the world has changed.

After several false starts and scares, the Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian airstrikes, have made a major offensive on the city of Aleppo.