A Basij commander spoke to soldiers, urging them not to panic during attacks by Israeli drones and not to abandon their posts.

JERUSALEM, March 12 (Reuters) - The Israeli military struck checkpoints in Tehran operated by the Basij, it said on Thursday, as part of an effort to weaken the rule of Iran's clerical leaders. The Basij militia is a part-time paramilitary force under the control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that is often used to quell protests inside Iran.

Israel has relied in part on information provided by ordinary Iranians to identify some targets for strikes inside Iran during the current conflict, a senior Israeli security official told the Wall Street Journal.

Israel is relying on targets sent by ordinary Iranians for its strikes in Iran during the current war, according to a senior Israeli security official. This was the case on Wednesday night when an Israeli Hermes UAV struck Basij checkpoints in Tehran.

The Israeli army deployed large forces across the occupied West Bank on Friday, particularly at checkpoints leading to Jerusalem, tightening restrictions on Palestinians seeking to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque for the second Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Abdullah Fauzi, a banker from the northern West Bank city of Nablus, leaves home at 4 a.m. to reach his job by 8 a.m., and he's often late. His commute used to take an hour — until Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, after which Israel launched ...

Israel said the war against Iran was entering its "decisive phase" on Saturday, as explosions rocked cities across the Middle East, with strikes on the US embassy in Baghdad and

The U.S. military's Central Command said that four of six crew members of an American KC-135 refuelling plane that went down in Iraq had been found dead and that recovery efforts