In order to recover its moral standing, the United States must take the necessary actions “to establish a new configuration of power” that will protect Syrian civilians from the Iran-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies, Leon Wieseltier and Michael Ignatieff wrote in an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Tuesday. Wieseltier,...

Gershad, an Iranian crowdsourcing app designed to allow users to avoid the morality police, known as the Ershad, became a massive success almost immediately after its launch, only to be blocked by regime authorities less than a day later. The app allows users to mark where they saw an Ershad patrol on a...

An Iran-backed Shia militia led by a designated terrorist has recently been spotted operating an American-made M1 Abrams tank, the Long War Journal reported on Monday. In a recently released video montage showcasing the various groups within the Popular Mobilization Units, a collection of Shia militias in Iraq, the flag of Kata’ib Sayyid al Shuhada...

Another member of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas was killed in a tunnel collapse, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. The man was identified as 27-year-old Marwan Maarouf of Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Palestinian reports indicate that Maarouf was the eleventh member of Hamas to die in a tunnel collapse in recent weeks. A...

The situation in Syria is now “a debacle of such dimensions” that it stands out as the “Obama administration’s shame,” New York Times columnist Roger Cohen wrote Monday. Cohen, who frequently supports President Barack Obama, faulted the White House for deciding to tacitly accept Russia’s plan for Syria: back the regime of Bashar al-Assad, attack the moderate...

A United Nations report has accused the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of carrying out a campaign of “extermination” against jailed opponents, among many other crimes against humanity. Although the report documented abuses on all sides of the Syrian civil war, it was particularly thorough in cataloging the ring of prisons run by the Iran-backed...