Iran has arrested 11 people on suspicion of planning suicide bombings on behalf of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group and seized large quantities of explosives, local media reported on Friday. It was the latest in a series of plots by the extremists uncovered ...
Iran dispatched on Thursday two warships to the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to “maintain maritime security”, local Iranian media reported. “The Iranian navy dispatched a fleet consisting of one destroyer and one support ship to the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandeb,” Iran’s semi-official Tasnim ...