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Members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) gather during a funeral of victims who were killed in a bomb attack at the offices of the PDKI in Koy Sanjak, east of Erbil, Iraq, December 21, 2016. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

Casualties in Two Blasts that Targeted Anti-Iran PDKI Headquarters

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 22, 2016 | Middle East

London- Iraqi Kurdish sources reported that six people were killed in a bomb attack at offices of Iranian Kurdish opposition north Iraq on Tuesday. The bombing targeted the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in Koy Sanjaq, east of Erbil, the capital of the...

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Iraqi Shi’ite fighters from the Popular Mobilization units deploy in the city of Baiji, north of Tikrit. AFP

When Militia Turns into Army

by Salman Al-dossary | Aug 7, 2016 | Opinion

Two days after the leakage of an official ministerial order issued by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, which states that the Shiite militia, known as the Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), will officially become part of the Iraqi army and will play a...

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Police inspect cars at a checkpoint, during a manhunt for prisoners that escaped from Muharraq jail, in Manama, Bahrain, June 4, 2016. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

Bahrain: Eker Explosion Two Suspects Arrested…Third Fugitive in Iran

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 13, 2016 | Middle East

Manama-Bahraini police investigations have led to arresting two suspects of planning and executing the blast on 30 June in Eker. The blast killed one Bahraini woman who was driving in the opposite side of the road towards Sitra. Shrapnel from the bomb penetrated her...

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The Iranian Timeline of Terrorist Activities

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 16, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Washington- 1979: On the year of the Iranian revolution, and after Ayatollah Khamenei returned to Iran, Iranians broke into the US embassy in Tehran, capturing 90 people. Later on they released women, African Americans, and indigenous Americans, while keeping 50 other...

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Soldiers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards

Tehran Acknowledge 200 Thousand Armed Youth in Five Countries

by Adil Alsalmi | Jan 14, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

In the first official confession of the presence of Iranian Armed youth, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander, Mohammad Ali Jafari, acknowledged training tens of thousands of Shiite youths, whom he called the armed revolutionary generation, for jihad in Syria,...