Militia

Iranian citizens' freedom may depend on cooperation with Israel, PJAK commander says

Peyman Vian, commander of Iranian-Kurdish PJAK, leader of the "most powerful" guerrilla force fighting the Islamic Regime, was interviewed by Israeli journalist Itai Anghel.

Fighters from the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, are pictured near the border with Iran in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, in the outskirts of Sulaimaniya, Iraq, June 21, 2025.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general Conference of Fatah Youth in Ramallah, with a backdrop including a portrait of Abbas and Yasser Arafat, November 27, 2025; illustrative.

PA drafts constitution, omits Jewish ties to Jerusalem, calls for Sharia legal system

Several Hamas terrorists stand guard near a scene as Gazans gather to watch the release of Israeli hostage Agam Berger to a Red Cross team in Jabaliya on January 30, 2025.

Israeli-backed Palestinian militia says it killed two Hamas operatives in southern Gaza

Adnan Faihan, nominated by the Coordination Framework for the position of first deputy speaker, speaks to the media on the day of the first session of the newly elected parliament, where members are set to be sworn in and begin the process of electing a speaker and two deputies, in Baghdad, Iraq Dec

Haibat al-Halbousi elected Iraq’s parliament speaker as new legislature convenes


Iranian-backed militias in Syria are buying up real estate - report

Real estate investors reportedly target property that belongs to people who fled the fighting in Syria over the last 10 years, with ownership likely passing to foreigners or Shi’ites linked to Iran.

Liwa Fatemiyoun fighters during the Palmyra offensive, Dec. 2016

For third straight day, US forces attacked in Syria, Iraq - analysis

This is the first time coordinated attacks struck US forces in both Syria and Iraq.

US SOLDIERS take cover near Tal Afar, Iraq, where Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster was in command in 2004.

Two arrested as armed militia group stands off with police in Boston

In the vehicles were about 10 people wearing military style clothes and carrying rifles and pistols, police said.

Massachusetts State Police vehicles block Route 95 after an armed standoff between 8 to 10 militia members and police forced the closure of the U.S. interstate highway, in Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S. July 3, 2021.

Iran digs deep in hollowed-out Syria

BEHIND THE LINES: Arab diplomatic efforts unlikely to shift Tehran’s extensive infrastructure.

A PICTURE of Syria’s President Bashar Assad hangs outside the parliament building in Damascus in April.

The growing threat facing Israel from Iraq

BEHIND THE LINES: Iraq is already part of the northern crescent of threats facing Israel. The US presence, broader policy regarding Iran makes Israeli action in Iraq more complicated than in Syria.

DEMONSTRATORS CLIMB a structure during an anti-government protest in Baghdad, last week.

EU sanctions Iran militia, police, three prisons over 2019 protests

Iran has repeatedly rejected accusations by the West of human rights abuses.

Thousand of Basij soldiers stage mock seige of Temple Mount in Iran

IRGC-made militias the most dangerous of all Iran-backed groups - study

The new report, “The View from Tehran: Iran’s Militia Doctrine,” finds that Iran’s militia network is not a homogeneous bloc and that only some groups are “proxies.”

A HEZBOLLAH member holds a Lebanese flag in front of a picture depicting Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in Khiam, Lebanon, last month.

Unidentified aircraft target pro-Iranian militias in eastern Syria - report

If the strikes were in fact, carried out by Israel, this would mark the fourth alleged Israeli airstrike reported in Syria this month.

An Israeli Air Force F-35 fighter jet flies during an aerial demonstration at a graduation ceremony for Israeli air force pilots

Rumors of an airstrike in Iraq come amid Iran tensions

Claims that the US struck Iranian-backed militias were at the heart of the rumors.

Iraqi security forces re-open BaghdadÕs Sinak bridge, after it was shut down by protesters, in Baghdad, Iraq February 12, 2020

Alleged US airstrike was ISIS attack on power lines: Iraqi officials

While pro-Iran media claimed the explosions were caused by US airstrikes, Iraqi officials have confirmed that the incident was an ISIS attack on infrastructure.

Iranian-backed militias stand on a tank close to the Syria-Iraq border