Pentagon Chief Trolls Iran On Effectiveness Of Weapons After Israel Attack US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday weighed in on the April 13 Iranian attack on Israel, which was the Islamic Republic's first-ever direct attack on the Jewish state. It included some 300 drones and missiles launched at Israel - the vast majority of which were intercepted by Israeli anti-air defenses, but also with US and Western help, and the deployment of warplanes which shot inbound drones out of...
Coordinated sanctions take aim at drone production.
OTTAWA - Canada is targeting Iran's defence minister as part of a new round of sanctions imposed after the country's retaliatory attack on Israel earlier this month. The sanctions affect two institutions and two military leaders, and come a week after Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said Canada would target more Iranians. Iranian Defence Minister Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani and the country's the most senior military body were both listed on the newly imposed sanctions, in co-ordination...
Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas’s paramilitary al-Qassam Brigades, on Tuesday praised the Iranian missile attack on Israel and called for “escalation” on every front of the conflict.
The Israeli prime minister says the invasion will proceed "with or without" a truce with Hamas.
The pressure on Israel and Hamas to reach a deal over the hostages held in Gaza is mounting as more signs emerge that Israel could invade Rafah. NBC News’ Keir Simmons has more on the response from world leaders.
In a precision airstrike, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) eliminated Mosab Khalaf, a high-ranking terrorist in the Jamaa Islamiya organization, in the Meidoun area of Lebanon. Khalaf was responsible for orchestrating numerous attacks against Israel and played a key role in planning and executing terror operations from Lebanese territory. According to IDF intelligence, Jamaa Islamiya […]
Canada announced it was sanctioning Iran's defence minister and top military command organizations while the U.S. and U.K. said they are targeting Iran's drone industry.
A report by Galai Tzahal’s Amir Bar Shalom has revealed that only two out of eight SM-3 missiles launched by the US military during Iran’s large-scale missile and drone attack on Israel on April 13 successfully intercepted their targets, amounting to a 75% failure rate. The SM-3, a ship-based surface-to-air missile, was used for the […]
Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bowed to pressure from some of his own generals and political allies to attack Iran after Iran’s massive bombardment of Israel, which ended with no causalities or damages. The Israeli military claimed 99% of the projectiles were brought down. But, ultranationalist Security Minister Itamar […]
Political and military leaders are still absorbing the extraordinary exchange of fire, writes James Landale.
In a desert region of the occupied West Bank, Israeli activist Eyal Shani has fitted a tiny camera on his T-shirt to collect evidence of settler violence against Palestinian sheep farmers.Campaigners like Shani have been trying to protect Palestinians from Jewish settlers in the rugged Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, but they say it has become increasingly difficult with attacks soaring following the outbreak of war in Gaza.