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From Holocaust to Hydrogen: How Israel become a ‘nuclear power’; with help from America | World News

In the deserts of southern Israel, tucked away near the town of Dimona, lies one of the world’s worst-kept secrets—an undeclared nuclear weapons program that has shaped Middle Eastern geopolitics for over half a century.Israel neither confirms nor denies its nuclear arsenal. It has never conducted a public test, never declared its warheads, and has […]

Explained: What is a cluster bomb? The weapon Iran used in missile strike on Israel

This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. The ongoing hostilities between Israel and Iran took a concerning turn on Thursday when the Israeli military claimed that Iran had fired a missile armed with a cluster munition warhead at a populated area in central Israel, marking the first such reported use in the […]

‘Trump Peace Prize’: GOP’s Matt Gaetz says Israel giving up nukes could win Trump Nobel; MAGA split over Iran

Matt Gaetz (AP photo), Donald Trump (AI image) Matt Gaetz, the former Republican Congressman from Florida, said Thursday that Israel should also give up on its nuclear weapons and if US president Donald Trump could get it done, he would win the Nobel Peace Prize. “If Trump pulled that off,” he said, “they wouldn’t just […]

‘Ring of fire’: Israel says it flipped Iran’s war doctrine; IDF vows unrelenting pace

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 […]

Israel-Iran conflict: Tehran claims first hypersonic missile strike on Israel; what is Fattah-1?

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 […]

Israel-Iran conflict: Russia warns US against military action after Trump’s ‘may join’ Israel remark; calls it ‘extremely dangerous step’

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 […]

Israel pounds Iran: Ayatollah on the brink – will Khamenei’s regime implode?

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 […]

Middle East crisis: Ayatollah Khamenei ‘can no longer be allowed to exist,’ warns Israel; seeks Iran Supreme Leader’s accountability over hospital attack

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 […]

Middle East crisis: Putin proposes peace talks between Iran and Israel; Trump tells him to focus on Ukraine first

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 […]

‘Regime could fall’: Donald Trump says no decision yet on joining Israel in bombing Iran; warns ‘anything could happen’

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. […]