The Quds Force, first formed in the 1980s and picked from the very best of the IRGC, is its special branch for operations outside Iran. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The Quds Force has provided weapons, training, and money to militias across the Middle East that comprise Iran's so-called "Axis of Resistance," including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen.

The new leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force once boasted that U.S. troops have “suffered more losses from us than we have suffered losses from them” and has ...

Qaani met with top Shiite leaders in Baghdad to contain internal splits and preserve Iran's influence in Iraq ahead of parliamentary elections. Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force ...

The Quds Force — previously led for more than 20 years by Iranian Gen. Quassem Soleimani before President Trump ordered him killed during his first term in office — serves as Iran’s country ...

Iranian Quds force commander Esmail Ghaani speaks during a ceremony on the occasion of the first anniversary of death of former Iran's Quds force commander Qasem Soleimani in Tehran, on January 1 ...

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 ...

The Quds Force's role underlines how deeply enmeshed Iran is in its neighbor — and how the U.S. could face resistance even from its allies in Iraq if it tries to uproot Iran's influence in the ...

The Quds Force is essentially an offshore unit of the IRGC officially begun in the late 1980s. The existence of such a military unit was never officially acknowledged prior to the outbreak of the ...

The Iranian Special Operations unit called the Quds Force has for years been accused, with or without evidence, of assassinations and terrorist attacks as far away as Argentina.