News : Terrorism

By Sinan Salaheddin
AP - The United Nations said Wednesday that violence claimed the lives of 7,818 civilians in Iraq in 2013, the highest annual death toll in years.

Washington (Alarabiya.net) - While Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was discussing the war on terror in Washington, his hosts showed him documents accusing his Transport Minister Hadi al-Amiri of allowing air cargo loaded with military aid enter Syria from Iran through Iraqi airspace.

Dubai (AFP) — Bahraini authorities said Monday they have seized a boat smuggling explosives made in Iran and Syria into the Sunni-ruled kingdom, which quashed a Shiite-led uprising in 2011.

INU- Hassan Rouhani's choice for defence minister is a former terrorist student who stormed the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, taking 53 American diplomats hostage.

NCRI - The Iranian regime's state-run Mehr news agency, affiliated to the regime's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) says a commander of its Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) has been killed in Syria.

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By Andres Oppenheimer    
The U.S. State Department said last week it will re-evaluate a recent report in which it downplayed Iran's links to terrorism in Latin America. But don't expect an immediate change in U.S. policy.