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In addition, Israel has carried out the largest airstrikes it has ever launched against Iran, reportedly weakening the ...

The militia wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party announced a cease-fire with immediate effect Saturday to halt decades of ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their ...

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

The Iranian regime spent decades building the Axis of Resistance, a coalition of anti-Western militias that extended Tehran’s ...

Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in 2020. Safieddine’s brother, Abdallah, is Hezbollah’s point man in Tehran, a crucial role in the ...

Hezbollah’s new leader, Naim Qassem, vehemently opposed Israel’s intention to remain in parts of southern Lebanon. But in a speech on Sunday, he stopped short of threatening to resume attacks.

Iran to take part in this weekend's funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, the slain leader of Lebanon's Tehran-backed Hezbollah movement, with a senior delegation. Iran said on Monday that it will take ...

Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem warned Israel on Sunday that if it does not withdraw its forces from Lebanon by Feb. 18, “we will know how to deal with it. “Israel must fully withdraw ...

The developments came as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking from Jerusalem, called on Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah following its recent war with Washington's closest regional ally Israel.