Sources: Global Post
A video posted to X shows Syrians tearing down posters of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani at the Iranian embassy in Damascus. Statues of former president Hafez al-Assad are also toppled across the city. 2024-12-8
Iran announces the arrest of several members of the Baháʼí Faith on charges of spying. 2022-08-1
Syrian Army troops and pro-Iranian militias launch a major ground assault on a rebel-held enclave in the city of Daraa. Rebel forces say that they have repulsed the attack from the western side of the enclave. State media says that the army was preparing to end a "state of lawlessness and chaos" and "reimpose army control" in the city. 2021-08-23
Iran imposes a 10-day lockdown in 23 of 31 provinces in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19 amid a fourth wave of the pandemic. 2021-04-10
Iran surpasses 60,000 deaths from COVID-19, the highest death toll of a Middle Eastern country. 2021-02-28
Thousands of Iraqis demand American forces withdraw from the country during protests in Liberation Square, Baghdad, a year after an American drone strike killed Iran's general Qasem Soleimani and Iraq's militia commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The anniversary of their deaths in Baghdad was also marked in Iran as well as by supporters in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and other Middle East countries. 2021-01-3
The United States and Iraq begin negotiations, conducted remotely, to discuss the withdrawal of U.S. troops and countering Iranian influence. 2020-06-11
The President of the United States Barack Obama signs a law providing for new sanctions against Iran. 2011-12-31
One person is killed in a second day of clashes between protesters and security forces in Ahvaz, western Iran. 2011-04-16
The Israeli Navy prepares to confront Iranian ships heading for Gaza, and says that it will act under the assumption that there are groups of provocateurs aboard any future ships trying to break the Israeli blockade. 2010-06-15