Iran has released ten American sailors and two United States Navy boats that they seized Tuesday and held overnight. The country claimed that the U.S. had apologized for entering Iranian waters. The Navy lost contact with the boats as they traveled between Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, and Kuwait....

Iran has captured ten U.S. Navy sailors aboard two American naval vessels in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The ships were moving between Kuwait and Bahrain when the Navy lost contact with them, the Associate Press reported. “We have been in contact with Iran and have received assurances that the crew and the vessels...

A senior Iranian official denied that Iran has deactivated its Arak heavy water reactor, contradicting claims made earlier this week by the semi-official Fars news agency, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The Fars report, which said that Iran dismantled the core of its Arak reactor and filled it with cement,...

Russia is facing criticism over reports that it bombed the office of an American NGO in the central Syrian province of Idlib, Foreign Policy wrote on Monday. The Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) said in a statement that its field office has been “completely destroyed” by a Russian airstrike. The organization’s...

The Obama administration’s failure to address the brutality of the Iran-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria led to a “vacuum” that allowed “a humanitarian catastrophe, a terrible refugee crisis, a deepening proxy war and the rise of ISIL in Iraq and Syria” to occur, Dennis Ross, a former White...

Supporters of the Iran-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad and the terror group Hezbollah have taken to social media to mock residents of the besieged Syrian city of Madaya, who are being starved by the Assad regime and its allies, The Independent reported on Saturday. The hashtag #متضامن_مع_حصار_مضايا, meaning “solidarity with the...