Category: 3. Middle East
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Iranian regime less divided than it seems, experts say
With reports of hardliners upset over Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s Saturday statement apologizing for attacks on neighboring countries that fall outside the regime’s policy, analysts who spoke with The Jerusalem Post on Sunday were…
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Israel’s Aerial Defense Systems Aren’t the Only Ones That Can Boast About Being ‘Battle-tested’
As Iran Attacks Gulf Nations
Countries across the Persian Gulf have been using U.S. air defense systems to repel Iranian drone and missile attacks, with impressive interception rates reported ■ Any comparison made to Israel’s defense systems…
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6 wounded by shrapnel, 1 seriously, as Iran fires suspected cluster warhead missile at Israel
Six people were injured, one of them seriously, at two impact sites in central Israel following an Iranian ballistic missile attack that apparently used a cluster warhead on Sunday afternoon, the sixth salvo of the day targeting Israel.
The…
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Iraq’s complicated role in the Middle East war, explained
Iraq, which had recently regained some stability after decades of conflict, was immediately dragged into the Middle East war triggered when the United States and Israel attacked Iran last weekend.
Within hours, warplanes filled Iraq’s airspace….
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Tehran plunged into darkness by smoke from burning oil
Residents of Tehran woke up on Sunday morning to find it was still dark outside, an apocalyptic sight created by thick black smoke billowing from oil depots hit by Israeli strikes.
With the Sun blotted out, disoriented people in the Iranian…
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Pope prays that ‘roar of bombs may cease’ across Middle East
Pope Leo said Sunday that deeply troubling news continued to arrive from Iran and across the Middle East, urging an end to the violence and renewed efforts to open space for dialogue.
As fighting escalated on the ninth day of the US-Israeli…
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'Unusual tension' in the air: Gulf residents feel war up close amid Iran attacks
‘Until now we were used to watching wars on television,’ a resident of a major Gulf city said, as the sound of sirens or air defenses occasionally cuts through the air. ‘The malls are open and there’s no food shortages,’ a Doha resident told…
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Will the US-Israel war on Iran reshape the global order?
The US and Israeli war on Iran could change the world order. It is an important war and its overall implications may go far beyond the Middle East. This means it could be a curtain raiser for what happens in the next quarter century, the way the…
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Police probe terror as blast strikes US embassy in Oslo, causing no injuries
The US embassy in Oslo was hit by an explosion in the early hours of Sunday that caused no injuries and only “minor material damage,” police in the Norwegian capital said as they searched for the perpetrators.
The cause of the blast,…
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