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The Pentagon announced Monday that the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean has been repositioned near the Syrian coast as a precaution after American military bases in Syria came under missile and drone attacks.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the fate of arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will be determined by a Russian court, according to a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

US President Joe Biden says Washington does not seek conflict with Iran, adding "we will act to protect our people”, after multiple attacks targeted American troops in war-ravaged Syria.

Former US Vice President Mike Pence has blasted President Joe Biden for his administration’s response to Iran, China and Russia.

An American contractor was killed in northeast Syria on Thursday after a suspected Iranian-origin drone struck a facility on a US-led Coalition base near Hasakah, the Pentagon announced.

A coalition of the US Republican senators is pressuring the European Union to blacklist Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.

A federal judge in New York has ordered Iran's central bank and a European intermediary to pay out $1.68 billion to family members of US troops killed in the 1983 car bombing of the US Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon.

The United States has announced another round of sanctions on Iran, targeting an alleged “procurement network” for drones and ballistic missiles.

US senators have introduced a resolution that could force the White House to critically appraise Saudi Arabia’s human rights record and possibly reassess Washington's security assistance for Riyadh.

A US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone was brought down on Tuesday over the Black Sea, after what its European Command (EUCOM) described as “an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” by two Russian jets.

The visit by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Iran is “in some ways, an extension of the deepening relationship" between Tehran and Moscow, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price has said.

President Joe Biden’s administration is doing nothing to counteract steps by China, Russia and their allies to work more closely together, jeopardizing US interests and undermining its global influence, former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton has said.

More than 90 US Democratic lawmakers have warned President Joe Biden that the Israeli prime minister’s push for judicial overhaul is undermining Washington-Tel Aviv relations.

White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby has said that Washington wasn't involved in an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to re-establish diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies.

Forty-five NGOs have urged US President Joe Biden to reject the comments made by Washington's ambassador to Israel Tom Nides who had said his country would back Israel in “whatever action” they take against Iran.

The US Treasury Department has announced the imposition of sanctions on dozens of entities for helping Tehran evade Washington’s bans on Iran’s access to the global financial system.

US lawmakers have voted down a bill seeking to withdraw all American troops from Syria, opting to continue the years-long military occupation despite repeated objections from Damascus.

A bipartisan coalition in the US Congress is pressuring the Biden administration to sanction nearly all of Iran’s parliament amid "the government’s crackdown on anti-government protesters."

The US military has allocated funds for secret contingency operations related to a plan for war against Iran, according to a new report citing classified Pentagon documents.

Permanent Representative of Russia to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov has criticized current and former US presidents for their policies with regards to Tehran. He said that Washington's approach only caused speedy expansion of the Iranian nuclear program.

Iran could now produce "one bomb's worth of fissile material" in "about 12 days", a top US Defense Department official has claimed.

US Republican Senator Ted Cruz has blasted Brazil for allowing Iranian warships to dock at a port in Rio de Janeiro. The two warships docked in Brazil over the weekend.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price says the administration of President Joe Biden did not send any message to Tehran over the resumption of the talks aimed at reviving the Iran 2015 nuclear deal.

The government of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has allowed a flotilla comprised of two Iranian warships to dock in Rio de Janeiro, defying US pressure to bar them.

Director of the CIA William Burns says that the alliance between Russia and Iran is developing rapidly, an emerging narrative that he called "disturbing."