Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
-
Mar- 2020 -13 March
US extends carrier strike group Middle East mission, sends Patriot missile defense system to Iraq
The US is moving Patriot air defense systems into Iraq and deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East for the first time since 2012 amid tensions with Iran
Read More » -
2 March
Syria’s regime re-enters key Idlib town ahead of Russia-Turkey talks
Syrian pro-regime troops re-entered the Idlib province town of Saraqeb amid a blitz of Turkish strikes against Bashar al-Assad's forces
Read More » -
Feb- 2020 -20 February
US links Saudi Aramco attack to Iran weapons ships seized off Yemen
Iran-made weapons components seized off Yemen's coast resemble those found at the site of an attack on Saudi oil facilities, the US said
Read More » -
18 February
Syria: Iran IRGC member killed in Aleppo rocket strike
A member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hamidreza Babelkhani, was killed in bombardment in Syria's Aleppo
Read More » -
13 February
US Navy seizes Iranian anti-tank missiles in Arabian Sea, command says
The US Navy boarded a boat in the Arabian Sea and confiscated a shipment Iran-made anti-tank missiles it says were illegally bound for Yemen
Read More » -
Jan- 2020 -30 January
US-led Coalition and Iraq resume operations against ISIS
Iraq and the US-led Coalition will resume joint operations against ISIS, nearly a month after attacks bases hosting American personnel forced a pause in the mission
Read More » -
8 January
Iran fires ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases housing US troops
Iran fired missiles at Iraqi bases housing the US forces in revenge for the US killing of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani
Read More » -
7 January
Iran designates US military ‘terrorists’ over Soleimani killing
Iran has designated the U.S. armed forces a terrorist group over the killing of top commander General Qassem Soleimani. Iran’s lawmakers on Tuesday, January 7 unanimously approved the bill to designate the U.S. Army and Department of Defense as
Read More » -
6 January
‘Draft’ letter saying US forces to leave Iraq was sent by ‘mistake,’ Milley says
Troops from US-led Coalition against ISIS are preparing to leave Iraq in the wake of an airstrike that killed an Iranian general and Iraqi militia commander
Read More » -
4 January
US designates major Iraqi PMU Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq a terror group
The US designated Iraqi Shiite PMU militia Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq as a terrorist organization, one day after killing a senior Iranian general in Baghdad
Read More »