Tag: Iranian armed forces
US Navy fires warning shots in new tense encounter with Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An American warship fired warning shots when vessels of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard came too close to a patrol...
Iran, US warships in first tense Mideast encounter in a year
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — American and Iranian warships had a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf earlier this month, the first such incident...
Report: Iran Guard kills 3 militants near Afghanistan border
TEHRAN, Iran — Members of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard shot dead three militants and dismantled their cell in eastern Iran near the border with...
Gunmen kill two Guard members in Iran’s Kurdish area
TEHRAN, Iran — Unknown gunmen suspected of terrorism killed two members of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.
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High-ranking Iranian general dies of heart disease at 65
TEHRAN, Iran — A high-ranking general key to Iran's security apparatus has died, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Sunday.
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Denmark charges 3 Iranian separatists with promoting terror
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Three members of an Iranian separatist group, the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, were charged Thursday with financing...
Iraqi PM grapples with militia threat as talks with US start
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister asked Iran's leaders to rein in Iran-backed militias in Iraq and in a strongly worded message to Tehran, suggested...
AP sources: Iran threatens US Army base and top general
Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army base in the nation's capital, and against the Army’s vice chief of staff, two senior...
In war-torn Syria, uprising birthplace seethes 10 years on
BEIRUT — Daraa was an impoverished, neglected provincial city in the farmlands of Syria’s south, an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim backwater far from the more...
Iran denies it attacked Israeli-owned ship in Gulf
UNITED NATIONS — Iran has rejected what it says are Israel’s unfounded allegations that Iran's Revolutionary Guard attacked an Israeli-owned cargo ship near the...
