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Several of Iran’s most powerful officials, including “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed revenge against Israel following an airstrike in Damascus, Syria, on Monday that eliminated a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leader.

Israel reportedly killed senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official Mohammad Reza Zahedi in an airstrike in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, a sign that Israel is taking on growing threats from Iran and its terrorist proxies.

“Anti-Semitism we see today in the West is the worst since the 1930s and it is because of a ‘red and green’ alliance”, says Amichai Chikli.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to be preparing for another military incursion into the border regions of Syria and Iraq to fight the PKK, a violent Kurdish separatist group seen by Erdogan’s government as the primary threat to Turkey’s security.

Reports in Iranian media claimed a “suicide drone” hit an American base in eastern Syria. The Pentagon has not confirmed them.

A second Ukrainian basketball player has succumbed to his wounds and died after a knife attack, allegedly at the hand of a migrant gang. 

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led coalition of fighters in Syria allied with the United States, announced on Monday that an attack, apparently by Iran-backed militias from Iraq, on an American base killed at least six of their fighters.

Joe Kent, Republican candidate for Washington state’s 3rd district and retired Army Special Forces chief warrant officer 3, said in an exclusive interview that Iranian proxies who just killed three troops in Jordan have also “definitely infiltrated” into the U.S. through the unsecured southern border.

Kata’ib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist organization that forms part of the Iraqi armed forces, issued a bizarre statement on Tuesday promising it would stop attacking American troops to prevent “embarrassment” for Baghdad.

The Sunni jihadist terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad celebrated the deaths of American troops on the Jordan-Syria border on Sunday, warning Washington that any support for Israel would force it to confront “the entire Ummah.”

A leader in one of the several groups identifying under the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” brand declared on Sunday that any negotiation between Baghdad and Washington on the presence of U.S. troops there will prompt “more pressure on the occupiers.”

Republicans blasted President Joe Biden after the U.S. military announced three American soldiers were killed and 25 injured in a drone attack in Jordan on Sunday.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has again extended a temporary amnesty program to more than 8,000 Syrian nationals living in the United States, ensuring they are not eligible for deportation and can hold American jobs.

There have been “nearly 140” recent Iran-backed attacks on American troops stationed in Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon revealed Thursday.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran fired missiles and drones at alleged “spy centers” in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Turkey carried out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Saturday after an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq killed nine Turkish soldiers.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Monday that it had killed leading Hamas terrorist Hassan Hakashah, who was based in Syria and had allegedly directed rocket fire from Syria toward Israel.

Argentina announced the arrest of three citizens of Syria and Lebanon suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Buenos Aires.

A spokesman for Iran’s IRGC claims the Hamas atrocities of October 7 were revenge for the U.S. killing of Qasem Soleimani.

Three U.S. service members were injured — including one critically — in a one-way drone attack by an Iran-backed in northern Iraq on Christmas Day, according to a National Security Council statement.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad gave a speech on Monday in which he said the Jews in Palestine are pagan foreigners, not the biblical children of Israel, there is “no evidence” the Nazis killed six million Jews in the Holocaust, the Holocaust was just a pretext for moving European Jews into “Palestine,” and America was behind the rise of the Nazis before World War II.

Iran-proxy group attacks on American troops stationed in Iraq and Syria have reached nearly 100 since the Israel-Hamas War began, according to a U.S. military official on Friday.

The Biden administration is proposing an “Israeli defeat” in the country’s north and effectively “standing with Hezbollah against Israel,” according to Middle East analyst and commentator Caroline Glick, who slammed a newly proposed resolution to the Israel-Lebanon conflict, warning it could strengthen the Hezbollah terrorist group and threaten both Israel and the U.S.

The State of Israel is fighting the Palestinian Hamas terror organization in Gaza, but that is just one front in an ongoing war against terror groups and their sponsors. In fact, Israel currently faces at least five enemies on five fronts.

A Syrian refugee was arrested Friday in the Netherlands on suspicion of crimes against humanity including sexual violence.

She allegedly travelled to Syria in September 2013 and married a Jabhat al-Nusra fighter before the couple joined the Islamic State.

France issues an international arrest warrant for the Syrian President, accused of crimes against humanity over chemical attacks in 2013.

A U.S. military official told Reuters on Monday that American and anti-ISIS coalition forces in northeastern Syria were attacked at least four times over the past 24 hours, including three rocket and drone strikes on Sunday night. The attacks were almost certainly launched by Iranian proxy forces.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) argued the U.S. should decrease its military and security presence in Syria and Iraq “in part because we end up being targets for a lot of these militia groups.

The GOP presidential candidates blasted President Joe Biden for his weak response to Iran-backed militia attacks on U.S. troops.

Denmark’s intelligence services won a case against a Dane of Syrian origin who claimed he worked for them as a spy while fighting alongside ISIS.

The Pentagon on Tuesday announced it was deploying an additional 300 troops to the Middle East region, amid an increasing number of attacks against U.S. bases and the beginning of a new war between Israel and Hamas.

The Pentagon on Friday evening confirmed there were no casualties resulting from U.S. strikes in Syria in response to nearly two dozen attacks against American troops based in Iraq and Syria.

Iran-controlled Shiite militias in Iraq on Thursday claimed responsibility for rocket and drone attacks on two bases housing U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq.

United States fighter jets began conducting airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in Eastern Syria late Thursday in retaliation for attacks on U.S. troops.

Twenty-one American forces were injured in drone attacks against U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria in just two days last week, the Pentagon said Wednesday.