Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, Chief of Staff of the IDF (Picture source: IDF) Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), told Israel’s intelligence officers on Thursday that the country had turned Iran’s “ring of fire” against them — a reference to alleged years of Iranian preparation for attacks on […]
The Israeli Iron Dome air defence system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, early Wednesday (Image credit: AP) Iran has claimed possession of hypersonic missiles and has begun deploying them against Israel, reported news agency AP. The ongoing Iran–Israel conflict escalated on Wednesday when Iran fired a Fattah-1 hypersonic […]
Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, US President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AFP) Russia issued a stern warning to the United States on Thursday against military intervention in support of Israel in its conflict with Iran.Following Israel’s unprecedented strikes on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory missile and drone attacks, tensions have escalated […]
Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei. (File photo) Iran’s regime is under siege – externally by Israeli airstrikes, internally by distrust and disillusion. The question gripping foreign capitals and Iranian streets alike: is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Islamic Republic on the brink of implosion?Israel’s military campaign has wiped out much of Iran’s top brass, exposed […]
Israel issued a stark warning to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying that he “cannot continue to exist” adding that the Israel Defence Forces had been instructed to ensure the same. This came after Iran, in its retaliatory strikes, attacked a hospital in Israel leaving nearly 40 injured on Thursday.“A dictator like Khamenei, who […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to mediate between Iran and Israel amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.He claimed that Moscow’s longstanding ties with both countries make it uniquely positioned to help broker peace.Speaking at a meeting with senior editors from global news agencies at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said Russia […]
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he has not yet decided whether the United States will join Israel in launching strikes against Iran, but warned that the “regime could fall,” as a result of the conflict.Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump was asked whether he believed the Iranian government could fall. […]
Trump was disturbed by Netanyahu’s gift of a gold-plated pager that he gave when he visited the White House in February. In September 2024, thousands of handheld pagers and walkie-talkies of Hezbollah operatives exploded simultaneously in two separate events across Lebanon and Syria. It was an Israeli attack nicknamed Operation Grim Beeper. Israel had secretly […]
Israel’s Arrow anti-missile defence system Israel may be running dangerously low on its stock of Arrow missile interceptors, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal that cites a senior US official. The warning comes as Israel faces an unprecedented volume of ballistic missile attacks from Iran in the sixth day of full-blown conflict […]
President Trump spent the first months of his term holding back Israel’s push for an assault on Iran’s nuclear program. With the war underway, he has now expressed support for Israel. Jonathan Swan, a White House reporter for The New York Times, breaks down how the president got to this point. Source link
