Nasrallah as Khamenei’s secret troubleshooter in Iraq
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei secretly asked Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah to act as his emissary for mending Shiite fences
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Trump, Putin & Khamenei Set up Confused Policies for Mutual Deception
How to pin down Donald Trump’s policy towards Vladimir Putin? Is it defined by his approval of US-Russian cooperation in
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Iran’s Tel Afar op is in sync with Russia in Syria
The pro-Iranian Iraqi Shiite drive to capture Tel Afar, 55 km from Mosul in western Iraq, was designed less to
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Tehran will fight Turkey’s role in Mosul operation
The involvement of Turkish special operations, armored and artillery forces in support of the Kurdish Peshmerga battle to drive ISIS
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Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Knows No One is in Line to Stop ISIS – Notably the US
When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-appointed “caliph” of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, looks around him, just eleven months
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Iran weighs turning Hizballah’s anti-Israel missiles against ISIS to save Damascus and Baghdad
Hizballah’s General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah frequently brags that his 80,000 missiles can reach any point in Israel. He may have
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Iran-led forces are worsted in Tikrit in Tehran’s first battlefield encounter with ISIS
The offensive launched by a mixed force of the Iraqi army (10,000 troops) and Iranian-led Shiite militias (20,000) to capture
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Iran airlifts thousands of Shiite fighters to Syrian port of Latakia to boost Aleppo warfront
debkafile’s exclusive military and intelligence sources have discovered a large-scale Iranian airlift is in progress for bringing thousands of Shiite
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Assad musters large Syrian-Hizballah-Iraqi force to recover forward Golan position opposite Israel
The Syrian army’s 90th Brigade’s loss of its forward Golan position at Tel Al-Ahmar to rebel forces including al Qaeda’s
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