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The Biden administration has been pushing Israel for a cease-fire, but that would be “suicide,” Newsmax foreign affairs analyst Walid Phares said Sunday. “So now, the Israelis are showing their technology, are messaging the Islamic regime in Iran that if you continue with what you’re doing, your own fate as a regime will be questioned at the…
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The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on the anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel. An additional $4.86…
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The Biden administration has offered Israel a “compensation package” if it refrains from striking certain targets in Iran as part of its retaliation for Tehran’s Oct. 1 attack, Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster reported on Sunday. U.S. officials offered their Israeli counterparts “extensive diplomatic backing and additional military aid” if certain targets inside Iranian territory…
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Iran’s supreme leader has decorated the Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander for the Islamic Republic’s missile attacks on arch-foe Israel, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website said on Sunday. “Ayatollah Khamenei presented the Order of Fath (“Conquest” in Farsi) to General Amirali Hajizadeh, commander of the Guards Aerospace Force,” it said. The decoration was bestowed because of “the…
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Sir Keir Starmer has once again called for any British nationals in Lebanon to leave the country. More than 150 Britons left Beirut on the first government-chartered flight on Wednesday, with another plane landing in Birmingham yesterday. It’s not clear how long Beirut’s airport can remain open, with some Israeli strikes yesterday hitting nearby areas,…
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There’s “clearly going to be escalation” before the current conflict in the Middle East is resolved, says a security and defence editor Deborah Haynes in northern Israel. It’s been almost five days since Israel’s military announced it was launching a “limited” ground incursion into southern Lebanon aimed at removing Hezbollah and its military capabilities from the area.…
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The Iranian supreme leader has called on Muslim nations to “strap the belt of defence” from Afghanistan to Yemen and from Iran to Gaza and Lebanon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as he led Friday prayers in Iran for the first time in four years, standing near a rifle. He added the 7 October attack by…
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said the country’s military action against Israel has been concluded. He made the remarks in a post on social media platform X early Wednesday while elaborating on a missile attack by Iran Tuesday night against targets inside Israel. Araghchi said Iran on Tuesday evening “exercised self-defense” under Article 51…
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Sir Keir Starmer has “utterly condemned” Iran’s attempt “to harm innocent Israelis” and “push the region ever-closer to the brink”. He says: “We stand with Israel, and recognise her right to self-defence in the face of this aggression. “Iran must stop these attacks, together with its proxies like Hezbollah.” The prime minister adds: “We support…
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Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant has commented on the strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen today, calling them “very impressive”. “Those who try to attack us or harm the citizens of Israel will pay a very heavy price,” he said. Four people have been killed in the attacks, which the Houthi media office said hit…
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Mourners have gathered in Baghdad, Iraq, to hold a symbolic funeral for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The militant group chief was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon earlier this week. People carried flags and signs as they marked Nasrallah’s death, and a mock coffin was paraded through the crowd. Four killed in Israeli strikes…
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France calls for an immediate cessation of Israeli strikes in Lebanon, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said on Saturday in a press release. The ministry also condemns any indiscriminate action against civilians in Lebanon. “France is opposed to any ground operation in Lebanon,” the ministry affirmed. France calls on other actors, particularly…
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Yemen’s Houthi group claimed on Saturday that it had launched a missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv in Israel. In a statement aired by the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, the group’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said a “ballistic missile” was fired at Ben Gurion Airport “upon the arrival” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is gravely concerned by the dramatic escalation of events in Beirut, Lebanon, in the last 24 hours, his spokesman said on Saturday. “This cycle of violence must stop now, and all sides must step back from the brink,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the secretary general, said in a statement. “The…
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Around 700 UK troops are deploying to Cyprus to be ready to help evacuate British nationals from Lebanon, as fears grow of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah. John Healey, the defence secretary – who chaired a meeting of the UK’s emergency Cobra committee on Tuesday – urged all Britons to leave the crisis-torn country…
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The UK defence secretary has urged Britons again to leave Lebanon. Leaving the Cabinet Office a short while ago after chairing an emergency COBRA meeting about the Middle East crisis, John Healey said: “Our concern is always for the safety of British nationals. “And our advice to them is to leave Lebanon now, that hasn’t…
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