Middle East


Police order last-minute ban of Iranian opposition rally in Paris, no reason given

PROTESTORS WAVE flags of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) during a demonstration by Franco-Iranian associations, including the Committee to Support Human Rights in Iran (CSDHI) against the capital punishment in Iran, a day after the World Day Against the Death Penalty/

Iran's Revolutionary Guards set up covert Iraqi cells to attack Gulf neighbors, sources say

Members of the Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah attend the funeral of their members, who were killed in an airstrike that targeted a Hashd al‑Shaabi headquarters near the western al‑Qaim district on the Syrian border, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2026.

Israel, Hezbollah agree to ceasefire starting on Friday, Israel to remain in Lebanon

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