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Syria [5] Iran [5] 2006 Ongoing Fatah–Hamas conflict: Hamas: Fatah. Supported by: United States (allegedly) United Kingdom (covert) 2006 2006 2006 Lebanon War. Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict Israel. Supported by: United States. Hezbollah. Amal. LCP. PFLP-GC. Supported by: Iran Syria Lebanon. 2007 2007 Hamas' takeover of Gaza
Relations between Iran and Lebanon have historical roots that precede the establishment of modern Lebanon. In the 16th century, the Safavid dynasty adopted Shiism as the official religion, deviating from the prevailing Sunni Islam in the region, enlisted Shiite clerics from Jabal Amel, a region in south Lebanon which already had a Shiite community established since the 11th century, to promote ...
The term Levant appears in English in 1497, and originally meant 'the East' or 'Mediterranean lands east of Italy'. [23] It is borrowed from the French levant 'rising', referring to the rising of the sun in the east, [23] or the point where the sun rises. [24] The phrase is ultimately from the Latin word levare, meaning 'lift, raise'.
Iran was the first country [2] to pledge assistance to Iraq to fight ISIL, deploying troops in early June 2014 following the North Iraq offensive. [3] [4]President of Iraq Fuad Masum has praised Iran as "the first country to provide weapons to Iraq to fight against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists".
[2] [3] It also denotes a vaguely defined region encompassing the Arab world, along with Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and sometimes the Caucasus and Central Asia. [4] [5] [6] Adam Garfinkle of the Foreign Policy Research Institute defined the Greater Middle East as the MENA region together with the Caucasus and Central Asia. [7]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The world must not fail in Iran as it did in North Korea, which kicked out International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and developed nuclear weapons, the U.N. nuclear ...
Iran on Tuesday identified the five prisoners it hopes to see freed in the United States in exchange for five Iranian-Americans now held in Tehran and billions in assets once held by South Korea.
This is a list of wars involving the Islamic Republic of Iran and its predecessor states. It is an unfinished historical overview. It is an unfinished historical overview. Conflict