In a swift and decisive response to the heinous terrorist attack that took place in Kerman, Iran, on January 3, claiming almost a hundred lives and leaving hundreds injured, the Iranian government has carried out retaliatory strikes. The attack targeted what Iran alleges are ISIS positions in Syria and an Israeli spy center in Iraq, marking a significant escalation in the regional tensions stemming... 

Israel convinced America to assassinate Iranian General Qasem Soleimani by supplying intelligence painting him as an “immediate threat,” former Israeli military intelligence chief Tamir Hayman boasted in an interview with Jewish News this week. From Jewish News, “EXCLUSIVE: Former military chief: Israel convinced US that Soleimani was ‘immediate threat'”: Israel convinced... 

7,000 ISIS fighters have taken advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to reorganise themselves in Iraq, according to a Kurdish general. Sirwan Barzani, a Peshmerga commander stationed in Arbil, said the lack of anti-ISIS operations in the region had provided jihadists with an opportunity to emerge from hiding, The Times reports. Speaking to the paper, the Kurdish general said that the group still posed... 

On Sunday, President Donald Trump cautioned that if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets in retaliation for the killing of the high-ranking Iranian general, Washington will strike 52 sites in the Islamic Republic “very fast and very hard”. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council and former chief of the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),... 

Most Americans did not know Qasem Soleimani until the Israelis found the perfect opportunity to have him assassinated. They gave the Pentagon the orders and kindly handed Donald Trump all the credit while he ate his ice cream and watched it on TV. So far, Trump’s post-hoc rational for murdering the most important military official in Iran is that the protesters who want America out of Iraq after... 

Top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed on Friday in a move that further exacerbated the already tense relations between Iran and the United States. Iran is currently holding ceremonies across the country to mourn the late general. Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology Azari Jahromi has lashed out at US President Trump via Twitter calling him a “terrorist... 

Earlier on Sunday, about 50 members of the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) were sent to Iraq to help with the potential evacuation of Britons following Friday’s US drone strike which killed Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s elite Quds Force. A UK Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine will be “in position to strike Iran” if the current tensions between... 

The thing about ragtag groups of militants that display a penchant for extreme violence is that in the absence of serious opposition, they can rack up gains at an alarming pace. Of course there are plenty of (possibly credible) theories out there, which suggest that some of what you see in the videos released by ISIS is for show and we won’t endeavor to assess the degree to which the group’s brutality...