Middle East

Missiles that attacked a Saudi oil complex last year came from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United Nations said in a confidential report, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

At least 12 members of a pro-Iranian militia in Syria were killed overnight after an unidentified aircraft targeted Iranian bases in the eastern Syrian city Deir ez-Zur, Syrian Human Right Survey Center reported.

A UK-based monitoring group in Syria said a strike on Sunday killed at least five Iran-backed forces in Syria, who were not Syrians. The nationality of the dead militants remained unknown.

The Arab League has slammed Iran’s ongoing interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries in a statement, saying that it poses a risk to the regional stability.

Unidentified warplanes hit a base in Syria on Saturday night, killing seven Iran-backed militias, a UK-based Syrian opposition war monitor group announced.

Monitor group reported on Tuesday that airstrikes believed to be Israeli targeted pro-Iran Shiite militias’ arm warehouses east of Aleppo in northern Syria and militia bases in Deir Ezzor in the east of the country late Monday.

Israeli warplanes on Monday attacked targets belonging to Iran and its proxy Lebanon’s Hezbollah in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Russian government has delivered its new T-14 Armata battle tank in Syria, reportedly to test and resolve any possible issues with the new production, Middle East Monitor reported.

A letter received by Avatoday on Friday showed five Kurdish law makers in Iraqi Kurdistan confirmed the role of the region’s security forces in deporting a political prisoner to Iran, who was executed two weeks ago.

Alireza Fethi Kuhi, an Iranian asylum seeker in Turkey who has been granted resident permit in the United States in 2016, was arrested on March 11 and is in danger of deportation to his hometown.