US President Joe Biden’s administration has pulled an aircraft carrier out of the Gulf in a move to potentially ease tensions with Iran, which had soared under former President Donald Trump. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group had sailed...

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said its fighters shot down an Israeli drone on Monday over a southern village near the border with Israel. The Israeli military did not confirm the shootdown but said a drone had crashed on Lebanese territory. Tensions in the region have been rising...

Meanwhile, the SDF has besieged al-Tayy and Halko neighborhoods in Qamishli in the countryside of Hasakah. The siege extended to the regime’s positions in Tal Tamr in the countryside of Hasakah and the neighborhoods in central Hasakah city, including the Security Quarter where the official...

Recent military drills by Iran in its southern waters amid heightened tensions with Washington are a message to the new US administration, according to a political expert. Iran has held a series of military drills in recent weeks. The exercises have gained momentum since the US dispatched...