Drone strikes have hit the paramilitary’s heavily armed checkpoints this week, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said.

Leaders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sought to reassure the public after Israeli strikes targeting Basij checkpoints and security facilities across Iran, raising concerns about the regime’s ability to maintain internal control during the widening conflict.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranians on the ground have been transmitting information in Persian through Israeli social media accounts. Israel has been relying in part on target information

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

The Israeli Air Force targeted Iran’s internal security forces, known as the Basij, after they had set up traffic checkpoints in multiple areas across Tehran. Israel’s military announced on Thursday that it had been targeting the Basij soldiers manning those checkpoints “during the past day,

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.

Without sirens or bomb shelters, Palestinians in the West Bank are witnessing the blowback to Israel’s war on Iran.

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said on Monday that one of its positions at a checkpoint on the Iraq-Syria border in western Anbar province was hit by an Israeli strike, killing six fighters and injuring four others.

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 ...