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The unfolding Iran conflict has ricocheted across the Middle East and beyond, with nearly every country in the region sustaining damage.
A video of Israeli jets bombing Syria’s Defence Ministry in 2025 has been falsely described online as Iran hitting Israel in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Saturday.
There is a burning desire among the Kurdish people to unite with the West and Israel to topple the regime in Tehran, yet there is deep pragmatic hesitation among the leadership. As the grip of the
"The Iranian public will unite against any threat to Iran’s sovereignty," a former U.S. State Department official told Newsweek.
Syria and Jordan on Thursday condemned an Iranian ballistic missile launch against Türkiye and a drone attack targeting an airport in Azerbaijan, calling them as "a blatant violation of the sovereignty" of the two countries.
Four people were killed and several others wounded when an Iranian missile struck a building in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Saturday, the state news agency SANA said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic issued a formal statement on Thursday, condemning in the
Iranian Kurdish armed groups are preparing for ground operations as tensions rise across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, with fears of a wider conflict
Welcome back to the Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I’m looking at why Iranian media are sounding the alarm over growing ties ...
As the war with Iran continues, a new video on social media shows people gathered around a missile that landed in Syria.