The son of a late Iranian grand ayatollah was sentenced to prison on Sunday for releasing a recording of his father condemning the thousands of summary executions carried out in the Islamic Republic in the late 1980s, Voice of America reported. Ahmad Montazeri, the son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, was...

An Iranian naval vessel aimed a gun at a U.S. Navy helicopter flying over international waters on Saturday, continuing Tehran’s pattern of aggressive behavior since the implementation of the nuclear deal, Reuters reported. The encounter, which occurred when a Navy MH-60 helicopter flew within a half mile of two Iranian...

The Iraqi parliament recently passed a law allowing Iran-backed Shiite militias to keep their command structure in place, raising concerns among the country’s Sunni leaders, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. “The legislation legally empowers the militias and makes them ultimately answerable to Iraq’s prime minister, but it also allows groups that have...

Iranian warnings against the passage of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) reflect “a broader strategy” in pursuit of additional sanctions relief, Benham Ben Taleblu, a senior analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a policy brief on Saturday. The ISA was originally passed in 1996, targeting Iran’s energy sector and expanding U.S. secondary...

The Israeli military bombed a facility belonging to an Islamic State-affiliated group in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Monday, a day after it killed four of the group’s fighters in a retaliatory airstrike. Israel Air Force jets hit a former United Nations structure that had served as...

Israeli officials have reported that the fires that raged in the country’s central and northern regions last week were largely brought under control, and that they are now focusing on determining the source of the blazes and the damage caused. Yoram Levy, the spokesman for Israel’s fire and rescue services,...