Iran's missile strikes in Syria send 'message' to region - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Arash Karami

Arash Karami

Jun 19, 2017

An Iranian military truck carries a smart bomb during a parade on the occasion of the country's Army Day, on April 18, 2017, in Tehran. / AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images) — An Iranian military truck carries a smart bomb during a parade on the occasion of the country's Army Day, Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2017. — ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images

Men mourn during a funeral of the victims of assault that killed 25 people, in the streets of the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, Iran September 24, 2018. Tasnim News Agency/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1503357B50

Iran launches missile, drone attacks on militants in Syria

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Members of Iranian forces take position during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran, Iran, June 7, 2017. Omid Vahabzadeh/TIMA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. - RTX39EMR

The real reason Iran is pointing finger at Riyadh for IS attack

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U.S. President Donald Trump, with first lady Melania Trump, delivers remarks to U.S. troops in an unannounced visit to Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, December 26, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1B49CC86F0

Iranian missiles strike coalition installations in Iraq

Jack Detsch

(From L-R) Iran's ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud receive condolences at the Iranian embassy for Iranian cultural attache to Lebanon, Ebrahim Ansari, who was killed during the two suicide bombings that occurred on Tuesday, in Beirut November 20, 2013. Two suicide bombings rocked Iran's embassy compound in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including an Iranian cultural attache and hurlin

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Ali Hashem

In Doha, reporting on Iran, regional politics, conflict