JERUSALEM — Iran issued a warning Sunday to the U.S. over potentially targeting two cargo ships in the Mideast long suspected of serving as forwarding operating base for Iranian commandos, just after America and the United Kingdom launched a massive airstrike campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The statement from Iran on the Behshad and Saviz […]
BEIRUT — British forces on Saturday joined their American allies in new attacks against militia in Yemen. The U.S. military earlier launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in western Iraq and eastern Syria in retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in late January that killed three U.S. service members and […]
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi militia official on Saturday hinted at a desire to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East following retaliatory strikes launched by the United States against dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Hussein al-Mosawi, spokesperson for Harakat al-Nujaba, one of the main Iranian-backed […]
Iraq‘s military sharply criticized the barrage of U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria Friday as a violation of the country’s sovereignty, putting further strains on the relationship between Baghdad and Washington. Yahya Rasool, a spokesman for the Iraqi military, warned that the attacks, ordered by President Biden in retaliation for a deadly militia strike on […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran threatened Wednesday to “decisively respond” to any U.S. attack on the Islamic Republic following President Joe Biden’s linking of Tehran to the killing of three U.S. soldiers at a military base in Jordan. The U.S. has signaled it is preparing for retaliatory strikes in the Mideast in the wake of the […]
Tesla is expanding its operations in Sweden despite dozens of sympathy strikes around the region targeting the company. According to a Wednesday report in the Tesla-focused Teslarati, the U.S.-based electric vehicle maker has posted seven job openings for metal workers, painters and claims adjusters at its Stockholm factory. The new facility has reportedly been operating […]
U.S. forces on Tuesday struck three sites in Iraq used by Iran-allied Shiite militias, Pentagon officials said, in a move that comes just days after a militia attack on an American air base in Iraq left several U.S. personnel wounded. It’s the latest in a series of strikes by the U.S. against the group Kataib […]
President Joe Biden said last week that military strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen will continue even as they fail to stop attacks on shipping. “Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?” Biden was asked last week as he departed the White House. “Well, when you say ‘working,’ are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they […]
For the first time since October 7, when the war between Israel and Hamas began, Iran “publicly said it’s attacked an Israeli target,” Bloomberg reports, although its proxies in Yemen (Houthi rebels) and Lebanon (Hezbollah) have been busy trying to widen the war. Iran’s attack on an Israeli spy […]
A stunt designed to celebrate the coming of Christmas turned deadly, according to reports from the Russian community of Chelyabinsk. A man wearing a red robe to appear to be Grandfather Frost — a Russian version of Santa Claus — fell to his death from a 24-story residential building, according to the New York Post. […]
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