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UNRWA says Israeli naval fire hit food convoy in Gaza A food convoy waiting to move into northern Gaza was hit by Israeli naval gunfire, Thomas White, director of the U.N.’s Palestinian relief agency, said in a post on X today. The U.N. agency said it is unable to deliver aid under fire, calling for […]
Iran executes four convicted of working for Israeli spy agency Four people who were convicted of working for Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, were executed today in Iran, the state-run IRNA news agency reported, citing the Islamic Republic’s judiciary. All four were arrested in July 2022 by Iranian security forces and accused of planning to […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Three US service members have been killed by a drone attack on a military base carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant groups” in north-east Jordan, the White House said on Sunday. The deaths mark the […]
The White House on Monday insisted the strikes have been effective. January 22, 2024, 5:46 PM ET • 6 min read The U.S. and U.K. on Monday staged airstrikes against eight locations in Yemen aimed at stopping Iran-backed Houthi militants from attacking ships in the Red Sea. The White House has insisted the retaliatory airstrikes […]
The U.S. military has unleashed large-scale retaliatory strikes against multiple Houthi targets in Yemen following months of attacks by the Iranian-backed militants on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, a U.S. official said Thursday. The official said that the strikes involved a mix of fighter jets and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from Navy surface ships […]
The airstrikes came after Erbil Air Base was attacked earlier in the day. December 26, 2023, 12:13 AM ET • 4 min read U.S. military forces carried out multiple airstrikes on facilities in Iraq used by Kataib Hezbollah — an Iraqi paramilitary group also known as the Hezbollah Brigades — and its affiliates on Christmas […]
The Pentagon believes the counterstrike killed several Iran-linked militants. November 21, 2023, 5:18 PM ET • 6 min read The U.S. military fired back at Iran-backed militants who injured several troops in Iraq early Tuesday morning local time, according to U.S. officials. The militants launched a ballistic missile attack from a truck against U.S. forces […]
New Atlanticist October 7, 2023 • 10:48 am ET Experts react: Israel is ‘at war’ after Hamas militants launch major assault By Atlantic Council experts It’s a new October war. Early Saturday morning, Palestinian militant group Hamas launched its biggest assault on Israel in decades. Thousands of rockets arced from Gaza into Israel; black towers […]
Gaza and Jerusalem CNN — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country was “at war” on Saturday, after militants from Gaza fired a deadly barrage of rockets and sent gunmen into Israeli territory in a major escalation of the long running conflict between the two sides. “Citizens of Israel, we are . . […]
After Trump’s pullout, al-Shabab militants grew in strength and size. December 10, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EST A U.S. Osprey aircraft at the Baledogle Military Air Base in Somalia on Nov. 16. (Malin Fezehai for The Washington Post)Comment on this story Comment BALEDOGLE MILITARY AIR BASE, Somalia — The U.S. military is scrambling to make […]