The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen said they launched a missile attack on Israel on April 1, simultaneously with Iran. Meanwhile, US-Israeli strikes on Iran continued as the conflict entered its fifth week. Iran also targeted neighboring Kuwait and Iraq with drones.
Iran and Israel continued to trade attacks that left a petrochemical plant in the Iranian city of Tabriz in flames, according to Iran's state media on March 30. It was followed by a strike on an Israeli refinery in Haifa. An Iraqi Air Force transport plane was also targeted by Iran-backed militias.
Witnesses recorded explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on March 17 as drone strikes targeted the US Embassy compound in the heavily fortified Green Zone. Cell phone videos showed smoke and fire as air defenses intercepted several drones.
Two weeks of US-Israeli air strikes have displaced millions inside Iran, raising fears in neighboring countries about a possible refugee spillover that could potentially turn into a humanitarian crisis.
All 23 Georgian crew members aboard a Malta-flagged tanker struck by Iran of the Iraqi coast have been rescued, a relative of one of the sailors told RFE/RL's Georgian Service.
The U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks ended in failure after a costly and nearly 20-year war and effort to establish a democracy. Did it leave Washington forever wary of getting involved in such efforts again?
The United States has said that Iranian-backed militants attacked an air base in western Iraq, injuring U.S. and Iraqi personnel.
Belarusian security forces have moved migrants away from makeshift camps at the Polish border, but there was no room for many at a nearby warehouse that was filled to capacity. Bahadin Muhsin Qadir spoke in a video sent to RFE/RL on the evening of November 18.
An Iraqi Kurdish man told RFE/RL that the Belarusian police had forced him and other migrants to cut through the barriers on the Belarusian border with Poland. He sent RFE/RL a video message on the night of November 14-15. RFE/RL has hidden the man's identity for security reasons.
U.S. forces in eastern Syria came under rocket fire, with no reported casualties, in an escalation a day after the Pentagon said U.S. air strikes targeted facilities on the Iraq-Syria border used by Iran-aligned militias to attack U.S. interests in Iraq.
The U.S. Supreme Court says it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, agreeing to hear an appeal filed by the administration of former President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Joe Biden says the air strike against an Iranian-backed militia in eastern Syria should be seen by Tehran as a warning against any further aggressive actions.
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