Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, thanked the Iraqi paramilitary groups that have been targeting American bases in the Middle East since the war began a month ago, semi-official IRGC-linked Tasnim News Agency reported.The message did…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Mojtaba Khamenei thanks Iraq for support during war, shows no proof of life
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Violence in Syrian Christian town triggers protests, calls for action
Protests erupted in the Syrian town of Al-Suqaylabiyah over the weekend after residents said men from the nearby Sunni town of Qalaat al-Madiq attacked the predominantly Christian community following a dispute between two individuals.The…
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Iran’s evolving attack strategy aims for interceptor shortage, report reveals
While the United States, Israel, and regional partners have successfully intercepted over 90% of Iranian missiles and drones, a shortage of interceptors and Tehran’s use of cluster munitions may threaten the war’s progression, according to a…
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Police stop top Catholic figures from reaching Holy Sepulchre for Palm Sunday Mass
Police officers on Sunday kept two top Catholic clergymen from reaching the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City to celebrate Palm Sunday Mass, the Patriarchate and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land said.
According…
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Pakistan hosts regional powers for Iran talks with focus on Hormuz proposals
By Ariba Shahid, Jonathan Spicer and Mubasher Bukhari
ISLAMABAD/ISTANBUL, March 29 (Reuters) – Pakistan hosted talks with Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Sunday as part of its efforts to broker an end to the Iran war, with initial discussions…
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Israeli police block Catholic cardinal from Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday
By Ali Sawafta and Maayan Lubell
JERUSALEM, March 29 (Reuters) – Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from marking Palm Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre “for the first time in centuries,” the Patriarchate said, with…
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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy arrives in Jordan for next leg of Gulf tour
KYIV, March 29 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in Jordan on Sunday as part of a Gulf tour aimed at shoring up defence ties with countries in the region amid rising tensions over the Iran war.
Zelenskiy is seeking…
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The First – and Last Israeli Artist to Dazzle Iran
Shmuel Katz, the prize-winning Israeli artist and cartoonist, really liked to get out of the studio, so he would go on trips all over the country that would produce many of his drawings. In 1975, when sociologist Dan Sachs, his colleague at the…
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In Israel, air raid sirens spark anxiety and dilemmas
Acutely sensitive to noise because of childhood trauma, Nili stresses when air raid sirens send her into a crowded shelter where her own “internal war” overlaps with the one raging outside.
The experience of Nili, whose name has been changed for…
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How the Houthis Aim to Improve Iran’s Position in Negotiations With the U.S.
The Houthis waited four weeks before deciding to send a “message.” The first missile launch from Yemen into Israel did not yet signal the opening of an additional front in the Red Sea, but it is another move meant to thwart the United State’s…
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