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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iran is plotting to assassinate Syria's al-Sharaa, Israel warns Israeli military intelligence has warned that Iran is plotting to assassinate Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa as ...
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Iran struggling for relevance in post-Assad Syria
Of all powers in the Middle East, none did as much as Iran to help President Bashar al-Assad weather the Syrian civil war. When Assad’s regime fell in late 2024 to a coalition of rebel groups led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Tehran lost its closest ...
Syria and Azerbaijan pledged to deepen ties, including a landmark Azerbaijani gas export deal via Turkey. Iranian media warned of a potential redeployment of Syrian fighters into the Caucasus, heightening regional tensions. Reports of Israeli-Syrian ...
Welcome back to The Farda Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that tracks the key issues in Iran and explains why they matter. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Kian Sharifi. In this edition, I'm looking at how hardline Iranian media have reacted to President Donald ...
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Iran talking 'indirectly' to new Syrian regime
Iran says it has opened “indirect” communications with the new regime in Syria that toppled its ally Bashar Al Assad in December. Tehran is using Turkey and Qatar as go-betweens to put its points of view to authorities in Damascus, but is “not in a ...
Assad’s overthrow eliminated Iran’s most important regional outpost, severing its supply route to Hezbollah and nullifying billions spent to prop up Damascus. Tehran has tried to regain influence by backing militias and exploiting sectarian tensions ...
US President Donald Trump's historic meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, has not gone over well with the hard-line media in Iran. Moderate outlets largely stuck to straight reporting of the meeting, but conservative ...
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough took to the television airwaves, warning all five networks that Iran could get a nuclear bomb if the U.S. does nothing on Syria. “We have to make sure that [the Iranians] do not misinterpret how we react to ...
Russia warns that military action could spark a wider regional crisis and undermine fragile diplomatic gains, while confirming ongoing talks with Syria’s new leadership to preserve its key military presence.