Security forces

• What is HRANA, the US-based group behind Iran’s death toll figures? - Amid recent mass protests and an internet blackout, there have been conflicting death toll reports from Iran.
• Iran's traders, frustrated by economic losses, turn against clerics - By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Iran's bazaar merchants, the trader class who were the financial backbone of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have turned against the clerics they helped bring
• Protests grow as Iran’s government makes meager offer amid tanking economy - Amnesty International says security forces’ raid on hospital in Ilam to seize protesters violates international law.
• Iranian security forces clash with protesters at Tehran’s grand bazaar - Nationwide protests continue to grow as rights groups accuse authorities of cracking down on demonstrators
• Trump says US will 'come to their rescue' if Iran kills protesters - President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States is "locked and loaded" to respond if Iran kills protesters, prompting Tehran to warn that intervention would destabilise the region.Trump said on his Truth Social platform that "i
• Protesters clash in Syria after deadly Alawite mosque bombing - Clashes broke out on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counterdemonstrators on Sunday, two days after a bombing at an Alawite mosque in the city of Homs killed eight people and wounded 18 others during
• Guatemala declares state of emergency after armed attacks kill at least 5 - Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo on Sunday said he had declared a state of emergency in two municipalities in western Guatemala a day after armed men attacked a military post and a police station, cut off roads and hijacked buses, kill
• Attacker who killed US troops in Syria was a recent recruit to security forces, official says - A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier and was recently reassigned amid suspicions that he might be affiliated with th
• What lessons were learned after attack on US forces, civilians in Syria - Cooperation between the US and Syria must be based on professional operations, without letting extremists infiltrate, and with the objective of stopping reliance on former militias. An attack on US forces in Syria is a deadly reminder of th