Middle East


Iran increases checkpoints in Kurdish region as minority group disproportionally executed

A view shows the outskirts of an Iranian Kurdish military facility north of Erbil, Iraq, on March 11, 2026, after it was struck by an Iranian drone.

US presses Israel to avoid striking Beirut as talks with Lebanon enter second day in DC - analysis

IDF soldiers conducting counterterrorism operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, published May 24, 2026.

Iran-backed militias in Iraq signal move to place weapons under state control amid US pressure

A mourner attends the funeral of a commander from Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah armed group who was killed in what they called a "Zionist attack" in the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday, during a funeral in Baghdad, Iraq September 22, 2024.