By Gerry Doyle (Reuters) – Israel’s effective use of air-launched ballistic missiles in its airstrikes against Iran is expected to pique interest elsewhere in acquiring the weapons, which most major powers have avoided in favour of cruise missiles and glide bombs. The Israel Defense Forces said its Oct. 26 raid knocked out Iranian missile factories…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has officially notified the United Nations that it was cancelling the agreement that regulated its relations with the main U.N. relief organization for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) since 1967, the country’s foreign ministry said on Monday. Last month, the Israeli parliament passed legislation banning UNRWA from operating in Israel and stopping Israeli…
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday it has carried out a ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen involved in Iranian networks. It was the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory. Israel has carried out airstrikes in Syria multiple times over the past…
Iran has been holding a US-Iranian journalist in prison for months, the Associated Press reportedBloomberg Terminal, raising the risk of further friction between the two countries. The US is aware of reports that a US-Iranian dual citizen has been arrested in Iran and is working with its Swiss partners to gather more information about the…
India summoned the representative of the Canadian High Commission on Saturday (Nov 2) after an Ottawa minister claimed that Home Minister Amit Shah ordered the targeting of Khalistani extremists in Canada. Meanwhile, as the West Asia crisis intensified, Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed ‘tooth-breaking’ retaliation against Israel and the United States for their attacks…
Once a ballistic missile is fired into the air, a defender has only minutes to identify its precise trajectory and try to shoot it down. The target, an enemy warhead, is inside an object about the size of a car that typically flies through the edge of space at many times the speed of sound….
Several people were injured after sirens sounded in central Israel early on Saturday morning, according to Israeli media. Sirens sounded across central Israel in Herzilya, Ranana, Kfar Saba, and Tira. The IDF said three rockets crossed into Israel’s territory from Lebanon. They confirmed that two rockets were intercepted, and one rocket hit Israeli territory….
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has escalated with new rounds of airstrikes by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon. Israel launched dozens of airstrikes across northeastern Lebanon on Friday, killing at least 52 people, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. Palestinians also recovered the bodies of more than two dozen people killed in an Israeli air assault in…
Iran is capable of making nuclear weapons and will change its doctrine to allow their production if it faces an “existential threat,” a senior adviser to the supreme leader of Iran has said. Kamal Kharrazi, head of the Islamic Republic’s strategic council of foreign relations, also said the country was “ready for war” amid speculation…
(Reuters) – Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said on Friday that Tehran is likely to increase the range of its ballistic missiles and possibly review its nuclear doctrine, amid growing tensions with arch-enemy Israel and tit-for-tat missile and airstrikes. Asked by Lebanon-based pro-Iran broadcaster Al-Mayadeen whether Iran was ready if conflict were…