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Ahmed Rasheed

A billboard depicting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's late supreme leader who was killed on February 28 in an Israeli strike in Tehran, standing behind an Iranian soldier with a caption in Arabic reading 'A martyr leads the battlefield' is displayed along a road in the Ameriyah neighborhood in western Baghdad on March 18, 2026 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
May 14, 2026, 3:30 am
Saudi warplanes struck Iran-backed militias in Iraq during war, sources say
Riyadh said to have targeted sites near the kingdom’s northern border from which drone and missiles were launched at Gulf states; Kuwait also said to have fired on Iraq
By Timour Azhari, Ahmed Rasheed and Humeyra Pamuk
Members of Iranian paramilitary forces (Basij) march with weapons and their national flag during a rally in Tehran, January 10, 2025. (AFP)
June 26, 2025, 12:23 am
Iran pivots to internal crackdown on dissent as ceasefire ends war with Israel
Activists say the now-weakened regime in Tehran has put paramilitary police on guard for internal unrest; ‘We are being extremely cautious right now’
By Parisa Hafezi and Ahmed Rasheed
This file frame grab from video posted online March 18, 2019, by the Aamaq News Agency, a media arm of the Islamic State group, shows an IS fighter firing his weapon during clashes with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters, in Baghouz, Syria. (Aamaq News Agency via AP)
June 12, 2025, 4:22 pm
Islamic State reactivating fighters, eyeing comeback in Syria and Iraq
Western and Middle Eastern authorities see terror group making moves to fill power vacuums, but claim security forces have effective countermeasures in place
By Ahmed Rasheed, Timour Azhari and Michael Georgy
In this photo released by the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, listens to Ziad Nakhaleh, the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, second right, during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, June 14, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
August 1, 2024, 6:59 pm
Iran to huddle with proxy leaders to discuss retaliation against Israel
Islamic Republic supreme leader, senior IRGC members to attend Tehran meeting with representatives from Hamas, PIJ, Houthis, Iraqi militias
By Parisa Hafezi, Ahmed Rasheed and Laila Bassam
Iraqi Shiite cleric and leader Moqtada al-Sadr (C-R) casts his ballot at a polling station in the holy city of Najaf on May 12, 2018. (AFP Photo/Haidar Hamdani)
May 12, 2024, 10:31 am
Powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Sadr girds for political comeback
Observers say return likely for planned 2025 parliamentary election, could pose threat to rival Shiite parties and armed factions close to Iran, undermining relative stability
By Timour Azhari and Ahmed Rasheed
The commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Esmail Qaani, speaks during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 2020 killing of Guards general Qasem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, on January 3, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
February 18, 2024, 10:31 am
Iraqi armed groups dial down US attacks at request of Iran commander
Quds Force chief Qaani said to meet factions at Baghdad airport; no attacks on US forces since Feb. 4; lull allowed talks to resume over future of US troops in Iraq
By Ahmed Rasheed, Parisa Hafezi and Timour Azhari
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