If 'leaked' US intelligence documents are to be believed, Israel will strike Iran in the coming days using air-launched missiles that would target Tehran's military facilities.

How will Israel attack Iran? Strike plan as revealed by documents leaked online

Two high-ranking Iranian military advisers along with three others were killed in a strike launched by Israel on the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday (Jan 20), according to Iranian media reports.

Iran says Israeli strike on Damascus killed Guards’ Syria spy chief along with 4 others

An American airstrike last week that killed Iranian Major-General Qasim Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis drove the already politically fractured region into an entirely new era of high tensions and instability.

Assassination of Qasim Soleimani: What we know so far

Hundreds of leaked Iranian intelligence reports reveal the depth of Tehran's influence in neighbouring, now protest-torn Iraq, The New York Times and The Intercept reported Monday.

Iran developed 'vast influence' in Iraq, spy agency leaks say

An explosion set ablaze an Iranian oil tanker off the Saudi port city of Jeddah, Iranian state media reported on Friday, adding that experts suspected it was a "terrorist attack".

Explosion sets ablaze Iranian oil tanker near Saudi port, all crew members safe

A senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Monday that Iran would demolish cities in Israel to the ground if the United States attacked the Islamic Republic.

Iran says it will 'raze Tel Aviv to the ground' if attacked by US: IRNA

Israel's military said it carried out strikes on Iranian targets in Syria early Monday after it intercepted a rocket fired from Syrian territory hours before. It said in a statement it was "currently striking" the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force in Syria and warned Syria's military against "attempting to harm Israeli territory or forces".

Israel says it has again hit Iranian targets in Syria

Missile strikes against Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force: Israel Israel struck what it said were Iranian targets in Syria early Monday in response to missile fire it blamed on Iran, sparking concerns of an escalation after a monitor reported 11 fighters killed.

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Iran said the three people detained were fishermen

Saudi says 3 Iran Revolutionary Guards caught on explosive-laden boat

The five members were responsible for the killings of two revolutionary guards and an engineer

Kurdish separatists killed last month say Iran's Revolutionary Guards