TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Handala cyber collective has leaked over 100,000 classified documents from the email account of Deborah Oppenheimer, a former senior Mossad official and current head of international affairs at Israeli regime’s National Security Institute.
Two US bombers return to UK RAF base after 15-hour mission, BBC reports Two US B-52 strategic bombers that flew out of RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England, on Thursday returned to the base after 15 hours. A weapons analyst told BBC News that he counted 12 cruise missiles under the wings of each aircraft when they departed, but no weapons remained when it returned. It is unclear where these weapons were used and what they were targeting.
Moscow [Russia], March 20 (ANI): Expressing serious concern over the 'ongoing armed confrontation' in the Persian Gulf, Russia has called for an immediate end to hostilities, characterising the situation as 'unprovoked aggression by the US and Israel against Iran. ' In a statement posted on X, the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasised the growing risks of escalation and the impact on regional stability.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The United States has fired ballistic and cruise missiles at Iranian targets from the territory of Persian Gulf Arab countries, according to a Wall Street Journal report, despite official denials from those nations.
Trump considers Kharg Island takeover to force Iran to reopen Hormuz The Trump administration is reportedly considering risky plans to occupy or blockade Iran’s Kharg Island to pressure the country to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, sources told Axios on Friday. Meanwhile, global energy prices surge as disruptions to oil and gas supplies continue.
Since the United States and Israel launched their bombing campaign against Iran, Tehran has expanded the battlefield across the Middle East. That includes in Irans western neighbor, Iraq, where Tehrans proxy forces have carried out almost daily attacks against US targets, including diplomatic and military facilities, triggering retaliatory American air strikes.
Iran warns UK that providing US access to British bases is ‘aggression’ The Iranian foreign ministry says it told the UK that allowing the US to use British military bases will be treated as “participation in aggression”. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told his British counterpart Yvette Cooper during a phone call that UK assistance to the US would be an “escalation of the situation”. In a statement posted on his Telegram channel, Araghchi criticised the “negative and biased approach of the United Kingdom and some European countries towards this blatant aggression, which violated international law”.
MANAMA, 20th March, 2026 (WAM) -- The General Command of the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) announced that through the unwavering vigilance of its personnel, the BDF's air defence systems continue to successfully counter successive waves of the hostile terrorist Iranian aggression, Bahrain News Agency.
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IRGC says official killed in US-Israeli airstrike Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has released a statement to state media confirming the death of their spokesman, Ali Mohammad Naini, in a missile strike. The IRGC is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces which handles strategic and military operations. Naini has served as the official spokesperson for the IRGC since 2024 and was previously a professor of social sciences at Imam Hossein University.
Sri Lanka did not agree to the request, officials said, and has tried to remain neutral in the U. S. -Israeli war in Iran.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi sharply criticized Britain's negative and biased approach toward the war imposed on Islamic Republic of Iran.
Tehran [Iran], March 20 (ANI): Iranian state media Press TV said on Friday that the spokesperson of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini was killed in US-Israeli strikes. This comes after several leaders of the Iranian top brass have been eliminated in US-Israeli strikes since the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28.
Rebuilding Syria’s northeast: Damascus’ toughest test yet Submitted by Danny Makki on Wed, 03/18/2026 - 14:54 After 15 years of Kurdish self-rule, control shifts to government, with security, integration, economic challenges ahead Since the beginning of the year, the Syrian government has reclaimed major oil fields, factories and power plants from the SDF in northeast Syria (Danny Makki/MEE) Off A few weeks can be a long time in Syria , and nowhere has that been clearer than in the country’s turbulent northeast. More than a year after Bashar al-Assad fled and his brutal government collapsed, Syria’s northeast has entered a delicate new phase in which the old security order evaporated, essentially overnight, to be replaced by new state control, fragile understandings, and competing visions of what the post-Assad governance system should look like. Damascus has moved further and faster than many expected in reasserting itself across territory once held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), after a sweeping military push backed by tribal fighters forced a dramatic retreat.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran carried out a large-scale overnight military operation targeting sites in Occupied Palestine and US bases in the region at 01:20 a. m. on Friday, deploying advanced missile systems and drones in what has been reported as a fully successful strike.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) released a statement denouncing the abrupt withdrawal of the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier from the West Asia theater, declaring it a clear sign of US military weakness and a failure to stand with its forces amid the ongoing war.
On Thursday, March 19, CNN, citing two informed sources, reported that a U. S. F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at a U.
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced the martyrdom of Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini, its official spokesman, in a US-Israeli terror attack during the final hours of the holy month of Ramadan.
