Quds Force

Quds Force

Type	Expeditionary special forces unit
Country/region	Iran
Archived items	47
As of	2026-08-25

Quds Force as this archive records it. The Reporting section below lists the archived headlines that name it. Nothing here is written by a model. The Overview is different in kind: those lines are encyclopedic facts from a reference work, each cited to the source it came from.

Situation as of 2026-08-25

Most recent archived item: Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime - reported by IRNA, Iranian state

Most recent archived item: IRNA, Iranian state

This page lists 12 archived headlines published between 2026-02-27 and 2026-08-25. It reflects what these feeds reported in that window, not everything that happened.

Overview

Encyclopedic context, retrieved from a reference work and archived. It is not war reporting and is not counted as any.

Overview

The Quds Force (Persian: نیروی قدس, romanized: niru-ye qods, lit. 'The Jerusalem Force') is one of five branches of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Considered an elite unit within the IRGC, it specializes in unconventional warfare and military intelligence operations. Army General Stanley McChrystal describes the Quds Force as being analogous to a combination of the United States' CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Responsible for extraterritorial operations, the Quds Force has been described as the IRGC’s de facto external affairs branch. It supports non-state actors in many countries, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, and Shia militias in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan; it has also deployed personnel in foreign conflicts such as the Syrian civil war and the Iraqi offensive against the Islamic State. The Quds Force reports directly to the supreme leader of Iran, currently Mojtaba Khamenei since 8 March 2026. After Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani was assassinated in a U.S. drone strike in January 2020, his deputy, Esmail Qaani, replaced him. [1]

Reporting

The tag records where a report came from, not who is fighting.

Other archived reporting

• [2] 2026-08-25 - IRNA, Iranian state: Hamas says destruction of UNRWA building in al-Quds is war crime
• [3] 2026-08-25 - Meduza: A US Air Force military transport aircraft arrived at Vnukovo. Who it brought is unknown
• [4] 2026-08-25 - Meduza: A US Air Force military transport aircraft arrived at Vnukovo. It is unknown who it brought.
• [5] 2026-08-24 - IRNA, Iranian state: Sunni member of Basij volunteer force martyred in Zahedan
• [6] 2026-08-24 - Africanews: Uganda Pledges 1,200 Troops as Burundi Eyes Gaza Force
• [7] 2026-08-20 - US State Department: U.S. Sanctions Smuggling Network for Qods Force and Hizballah
• [8] 2026-08-20 - The War Zone: USS George Washington’s Mideast Arrival Highlights Strain On Carrier Force
• [9] 2026-08-20 - Defense News: US Air Force flight to Antarctica turns back after Russian hazardous space activity warning
• [10] 2026-07-24 - outlet not recorded: How Hezbollah in Lebanon became Iran's most powerful proxy force
• [11] 2026-07-22 - outlet not recorded: Morocco to host first Gaza multinational force drills: reports
• [12] 2026-07-17 - outlet not recorded: The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
• [13] 2026-07-01 - outlet not recorded: Israel-Lebanon Deal: A Path to Peace or Another Ceasefire Illusion?
• ...and 35 more not listed here.

See also: Iran

Publication history

What changed and when. Computed from the sources each revision cited, not written by anyone.

• rev 1, 2026-08-26 — first published from 13 source(s)

Sources

Where a durable link was recorded, it is here. Google News items carry a redirect stub rather than an article and are listed above without one.

• [1] Wikipedia
• [2] IRNA, Iranian state, 2026-08-25
• [3] Meduza, 2026-08-25
• [4] Meduza, 2026-08-25
• [5] IRNA, Iranian state, 2026-08-24
• [6] Africanews, 2026-08-24
• [7] US State Department, 2026-08-20
• [8] The War Zone, 2026-08-20
• [9] Defense News, 2026-08-20
• [13] outlet not recorded, 2026-07-01

How this page is made

Assembled directly from the war archive and an archived reference work: no model writes any part of it. The Overview is retrieved and archived, the Reporting is the archived headline record. Overview source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).