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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Quds Force Founded 1988 ; 37 years ago (1988) as an independent force Country Iran Type Special operations force Role Extraterritorial operations, Unconventional warfare, Military Intelligence, Black operations Size 5,000 Part of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Engagements Iran–Iraq War Soviet ...
IRGC air force commander in front of the Hamas flag in 2020 (third flag from the right) Iran and Hamas became dramatically closer following Hamas' unexpected win in the 2006 Palestinian elections and its violent seizure of the Gaza Strip in 2007. In 2006, Iran intervened to support the nearly insolvent Palestinian Authority in Gaza, which was ...
Soleimani is alleged to have strengthened the relationship with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Quds Force during the Second Intifada, when he and the chief of military operations of Hezbollah, Imad Mughniyeh, oversaw the smuggling of weapons to the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad factions, according to Lebanese militant Anis ...
DUBAI (Reuters) -The top commander of Iran's Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, is in "good health", the force's deputy commander Iraj Masjedi said on Monday, after two Iranian security sources told ...
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said it had adopted a new sanctions regime against Iran on Thursday as it announced measures against seven individuals, including the head of Tehran's Quds Force, for ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States imposed sanctions on Monday on Hamas-affiliated financial exchanges in Gaza, an Iraqi airline and backers of Iranian-linked militias in Iraq, accusing all ...
Opposing force Location Campaign Outcome Battle of Herat [1] 12 November 2001: Taliban: Herat: Afghanistan War: Victory Karbala raid (alleged) [2] 20 January 2007: United States: Karbala: Iraq War: Tactical Victory Al-Qusayr offensive [3] 4 April–8 June 2013: Free Syrian Army Al-Nusra Front: Al-Qusayr: Syrian Civil War: Decisive Victory Siege ...
Esmail Qaani (also spelled as Ismail Qaani; [2] [better source needed] Persian: اسماعیل قاآنی; born 8 August 1957) [3] is an Iranian brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and commander of its Quds Force, a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial operations.