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 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, 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 is part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and is responsible for extraterritorial operations, including terrorist operations.

Take the Quds Force’s relationship with Hamas. Despite the long planning involved with the horrific Hamas attacks in Israel in October 2023, the Quds Force does not appear to have had a direct role.

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 is part of the 125,000-strong Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary organization that answers only to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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.

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 Quds Force also has been involved in Iraq. It assisted Kurdish rebels fighting Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and Shiites battling his regime in the 1990s. Even Ahmad Chalabi’s expatriate Iraqi ...

The award comes only 18 months after one of the wing’s B-1 Lancers was lost in a crash—which an Air Force investigation ...