At least 11 Iranian security personnel have been killed in an attack on a police station in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state television reported. Alireza Marhamati, deputy governor of the province, said on Friday that senior police officers and soldiers were killed and injured in the 2am (22:30 GMT Thursday) attack in the town of Rask, about 1,400km […]

Iran launched attacks Tuesday in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the militant group Jaish al-Adl, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Pakistan said the strikes killed two children and wounded three others in an assault it described as an “unprovoked violation” of its airspace. […]

A Pakistani naval flotilla that has docked at Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas is going to attend a joint military exercise with Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf. The Pakistani flotilla, comprising the Madadgar warship and Zhob maritime security vessel, has berthed at Bandar Abbas to convey the message of peace and friendship. The expansion of friendly ties […]

La décision du géant maritime chinois COSCO de suspendre ses opérations en Israël pourrait conduire d’autres entreprises à faire de même. Dans l’industrie du transport maritime, la décision de COSCO interroge. Les observateurs israéliens se demandent si cette décision est liée au soutien chinois au Hamas ou si elle est due à une considération commerciale. La principale préoccupation est un […]

Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s Ambassador and Special Representative to Afghanistan, stated in a meeting with the Deputy Political Chief of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) that Iran does not support opponents of the current government in Kabul. The meeting between Iran’s ambassador and Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, the Deputy Political Chief of the Taliban, took place on Monday night. According […]

The office of the deputy prime minister for economic affairs said on Sunday that meetings of the joint committees between Afghanistan and Iran have been held and previous agreements were discussed in order to resolve problems and expand trade and transit relations between the two countries. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) stated that it was agreed that customs units […]

Iran said it is shutting its vast borders with neighboring Afghanistan and Pakistan to increase security after the twin bombing that killed at least 89 people in the southeastern city of Kerman on January 3. The Iran Students News Agency (ISNA) quoted Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi as saying his government was prioritizing border crossings along borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, […]

Communications intercepts collected by the United States confirmed that Daesh’s Khorasan branch carried out twin bombings in Iran that killed nearly 100 people, Reuters reported on Friday citing US intelligence sources. The sources said the intelligence comprised communications intercepts, without providing further details. Wednesday’s bombings were the deadliest of their kind in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Daesh on […]

The outbreak of Israel-Hamas hostilities, following the latter’s deadly raid on 7 October 2023, has sparked never-before-seen violence in the Gaza Strip. The involvement of external powers, coupled with the regional powers’ pursuit of geopolitical ambitions through proxies, threatens the fragile stability of West Asia. However, beyond the geopolitical implications lurks the threat of terrorist violence and radicalisation as a […]

The growing convergence of India and the United States’ (US) perspectives on the Middle East is one of the main signals from the fifth iteration of the ‘two plus two’ meeting on 10 November 2023 in New Delhi. The defence and foreign ministers of the two countries were unambiguous in condemning Hamas terror, emphasising Israel’s right to self-defence while observing […]