An exclusive investigation by Kurdish broadcaster Rudaw has revealed that Iranian-backed Shiite militia group Hashd al-Shaabi has trained hundreds of child soldiers in northern Iraq, in violation of international humanitarian law. Commanders of the Hashd al-Shaabi troops, also known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), performed the military training in...

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In a speech before Iran’s parliament on Tuesday, newly reelected President Hassan Rouhani threatened that if the United States continued to impose new non-nuclear sanctions on Iran, Iran could resume its nuclear program at a more advanced level than before the negotiations began. “The new US administration officials should know...

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Iran’s parliament voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to increase the country’s budget for its ballistic missiles program and the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in a direct challenge to new sanctions announced by the Trump administration against the Islamic Republic earlier this month. Some lawmakers shouted “Death to America” after...

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A top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that Iran will never allow a foreign nation, especially the United States, to inspect its military sites to ensure compliance with the nuclear deal, Iran’s semi-official Fars News reported. Brigadier General Hassan Salami, the Lieutenant Commander of the IRGC...

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Hezbollah General-Secretary Hassan Nasrallah has warned that Hezbollah is 100 times more powerful now, compared to its position at the end of the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Nasrallah delivered the speech to Hezbollah officials from a hidden bunker to the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon to mark the...

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An Iranian blogger, whose extradition was sought by Iran because she wrote for an Israeli publication, arrived in Israel from Turkey on Thursday. Appearing with editor-in-chief David Horovitz at The Times of Israel’s Jerusalem office, the publication she wrote for, Neda Amin told reporters, “I am safe now,” because no...

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Iranian authorities have recently arrested  four men and two women for teaching Zumba, the BBC reported. The arrests follow the outlawing of the popular Brazilian exercise dance by the regime in June. In a letter, the head of the Sports for All Federation, Ali Majd Ara, declared that the government...

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Senior members of the terrorist organization Hamas met on Monday with representatives of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran, and agreed to forge closer ties with the military force under direct supervision of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The delegation was in the Islamic Republic to attend...

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By embedding itself throughout Afghanistan’s government and cultivating networks of assassins and spies, Iran is “working quietly and relentlessly to spread its influence … following the withdrawal of the United States,” The New York Times reported Saturday. While Iran was once at odds with the Sunni terrorist group, it now sees the Taliban as...

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Hezbollah’s recent defeat of Sunni jihadist near the Lebanon-Syria border and subsequent prisoner exchange underscores the degree to which Hezbollah and Lebanon are indivisible, the Associated Press reported Sunday. The partnership received greater attention after President Donald Trump praised the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri for its efforts to fight terrorist groups including...

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