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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed replacing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu with former vice prime minister Andrei Belousov, according to an official post by the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, on Telegram. Shoigu was appointed to lead the Kremlin’s security council, Russian state media reported, citing spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. The announcement comes…
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) described the Biden administration’s review of Israel’s war conduct in the Gaza Strip — which acknowledged the likely violation of international humanitarian law using U.S. weapons — as “woefully inadequate,” but did not indicate a ban on arms transfers. “If this conduct complies with international standards, God help us all,”…
Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who leads the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, had a heated exchange with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about the migrant crisis at the southern border on Capitol Hill. Tester, who is one of the Senate’s most at-risk current officeholders, made it clear to Austin that he's tired of the…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stopped all military leave because threats from Iran are increasing after an alleged Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria this week. The IDF said Thursday in a statement that it was stopping soldiers from taking time off for all combat units based on the situation.
North Korea launched a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile over the waters near its eastern coast on Tuesday, as reported by South Korea’s military. As per South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, the missile was fired in an area near North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. The Associated Press reported. This covers a distance of about 600 kilometers (372 miles)…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Tuesday to being responsible for an attack that resulted in the deaths of seven aid workers from the charity group World Central Kitchen. Netanyahu, freshly released from the hospital after a hernia surgery, acknowledged that there was a “tragic incident in which our forces unintentionally caused harm to non-combatants in the Gaza Strip.”…
The Biden administration is thinking about selling more weapons to Israel despite requests to stop sending weapons to the ally as civilian casualties in Gaza mount, The Hill confirmed on Monday. The U.S. government is thinking about selling Israel up to 50 new F-15 fighter jets, 30 AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles, as well as Joint…
ISIS-K, the Central Asian offshoot of the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group that carried out the deadly Moscow concert hall attack last month, badly wants to target the United States, two former U.S. Central Command leaders are warning. Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, former CENTCOM head, said Sunday that the group has a “strong desire” to…
A high-ranking officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed on Monday in an alleged Israeli attack on the Iranian Embassy in the capital city of Damascus, Syria. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a high-ranking officer of the IRGC’s Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon, was among those killed in the attack, according to Reuters and…
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