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New details of the $400 million U.S. payment to Iran earlier this year depict a tightly scripted exchange specifically timed to the release of several American prisoners held in Iran, based on accounts from U.S. officials and others briefed on the operation. U.S. officials wouldn’t let Iranians take control of the money until a Swiss Air Force […]
High-level PLA officers say that China will increase cooperation with the Syrian military and conduct military exchanges and training.
Russians warplanes have conducted missions over Syria from an airbase in Iran — the first time a major power has done so since the Islamic Revolution there in 1979. Tu-22M3 long-range bombers and Su-34 tactical bombers took off from Hamedan airbase in western Iran Tuesday, and hit targets belonging to ISIS and the Jabhat al-Nusra […]
Russian Tupolev-22M3 bombers and Sukhoi-34 fighter bombers used Iran’s Hamadan air base to strike a range of targets in Syria. Russia is teaming up with Iran in an effort to defeat ISIS. It is believed to be the first time Iran has allowed a foreign nation to use its territory as a base of military […]
The U.S. Navy lieutenant who apologized on video for “a mistake” while he and his crew were being held by Iranian captors in January is appealing his discipline for violating the service’s code of conduct, The Navy Times reported. Lt. David Nartker was given a non-judicial punishment last week by the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, […]
Hezbollah first used drones in attack missions during the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006, loading Ababil drones with explosive material and sending them to crash into Israeli targets, according to a new research paper written by former Washington Institute analyst Nadav Pollak
Iraqis quietly expressed their concern to me that Iran was taking over Iraq, and no one was doing anything about it. The distrust of their comrades ran so deep that some would stop talking to me the second another soldier entered the room, regardless if the other one was a friend.
The Russian occupying authorities suspended, for unknown reasons, the handling of citizens and vehicles crossing the administrative border with Crimea.
Iran has a new home-grown drone to show off. Announced today, the drone has a “jamming capability,” according to Iranian state-owned news network Fars. The Sifar drone is just one of many new models on display at an exhibition of the Iranian Ground Forces. Besides the Sifar jamming drone, Fars claims that a “drone equipped […]
I have mentioned this before when covering the Clinton e-mail server scandal. Leaking human intelligence can have grave consequences for both the sources and handlers. Foreign countries collect most of their information on the Unites States from open source intelligence and they will not pass up an opportunity to gather intelligence from the a server left unattended, especially from the Secretary of State and State Department.
Iran confirmed on Sunday that it has executed an Iranian nuclear scientist who gave the U.S. intelligence about the country’s contested nuclear program. The official IRNA news agency quoted a spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi, confirming the execution of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist caught up in a real-life U.S. spy mystery […]
An Iranian nuclear scientist who once claimed he was kidnapped by the CIA has been executed after being accused of spying for the United States. Shahram Amiri had been in custody in Iran since 2010. “Shahram Amiri had access to the system’s top secrets and had gotten connected with our number one enemy the Great […]
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