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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Iran late Thursday not to respond to Israeli strikes by hitting American bases, saying Washington was not involved. “We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region,” Rubio said in a statement. “Let
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The US military announced Thursday that a recent airstrike had killed an Daesh group official in northwest Syria. In a post to social media, US Central Command said its forces “conducted a precision airstrike in northwest Syria killing Rakhim Boev, a Syria-based Daesh official,” using another name for Daesh. The
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Iran’s retaliation to any Israeli aggression will be “more forceful and destructive” than in past offensives, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Hossein Salami told state media on Thursday, after Tehran said it had been alerted of a potential attack. Israel and Iran exchanged fire twice last year, the
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It is likely no one survived on an Air India airliner that crashed Thursday, Ahmedabad’s city police commissioner said, adding that there were likely also casualties from the area of the city where it went down. The flight crashed midday shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad airport with more than
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Australia said Thursday it is “very confident” in the future of a US agreement to equip its navy with a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, after the Trump administration put the pact under review. The 2021 AUKUS deal joins Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States in a multi-decade effort
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Israeli forces have retrieved the bodies of two hostages from the Gaza Strip, the military said Wednesday, as Israel presses its offensive in the Palestinian territory. A military statement said a joint operation by the army and the Shin Bet security agency recovered the bodies of Yair Yaakov and “an
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A concentrated, nine-minute-long Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv on Wednesday killed six people and injured 64, including nine children, Ukrainian officials said. The attack followed Russia’s two biggest air assaults of the war on Ukraine this week, part of intensified bombardments that Moscow says
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US President Donald Trump said he was less confident that Iran will agree to stop uranium enrichment in a nuclear deal with Washington, according to an interview released on Wednesday. “I don’t know,” Trump told the “Pod Force One” podcast on Monday when asked if he thought he could
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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said Wednesday its fighters seized a strategic zone on the border with Egypt and Libya, as the regular army announced its withdrawal from the area. The announcements came a day after the army accused forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar of launching
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Austria will observe a national day of mourning and a minute’s silence on Wednesday after a former student shot dead 10 people at a high school in an unprecedented case of gun violence that stunned the Alpine country. The 21-year-old shooter acted alone and took his own life in
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KYIV; killed two people and wounded 54 including children early Wednesday, authorities said, as Moscow pushed ahead with its relentless attacks after rejecting an unconditional ceasefire. “Seventeen strikes by enemy UAVs (drones) were carried out in two districts of the city tonight,” Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said on Telegram, later
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The Sudanese army accused forces under eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar of attacking border posts on Tuesday, the first time it has accused its northwestern neighbor of direct involvement in the country’s two-year war. The war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, whom the
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that there had been “significant progress” in efforts to secure the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza, but that it was “too soon” to raise hopes that a deal would be reached. Despite efforts by the United States, Egypt and Qatar
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United Nations peacekeepers said rock-throwing individuals confronted them during a patrol on Tuesday in south Lebanon, calling repeated targeting of their troops “unacceptable.” The UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), deployed since 1978 to separate Lebanon and Israel, sits on a five-member committee to supervise the ceasefire between Israel and
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Russia carried out “massive” drone attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and port city of Odesa early Tuesday, killing one person and hitting a maternity hospital, Ukrainian officials said, calling for further sanctions. Moscow has kept up its attacks on Ukraine, which has hit back with strikes deep inside Russian
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The US military will temporarily deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles until more National Guard troops can arrive, marking another escalation in President Donald Trump’s response to street protests over his aggressive immigration policies. Tensions have been rising since Trump activated the National Guard on Saturday after street