On the 7th on June, suicide bombers linked to ISIS attacked the parliament and the mausoleum Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic after the revolution in 1979. The coordinated attack in the two locations took Iranian security forced by surprise and left at least 46 wounded and 12
The Trump administration has approved a plan to arm Syria’s Kurdish fighters to help them retake Raqqa from the Islamic State (IS), despite strong opposition from Turkey, a NATO ally. US security officials claim that arming the People’s Protection Unit (YPG), a Kurdish militia that has been fighting against the
Two attacks claimed by the Islamic State have occurred in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Iranian officials say a third attack was attempted but prevented. The attacks were on the parliament building and Ayatollah Khomeini’s mausoleum. Following hours of intermittent gunfire, and a suicide bomb detonation, roughly twelve people were killed with many
