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Category: War

Iran Demonstrates it Can Strengthen its Retaliations While Israelis Question Leadership
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Iran Demonstrates it Can Strengthen its Retaliations While Israelis Question Leadership

June 20, 2025

Story at a glance… Israeli leadership is being questioned over the issues of inadequate protection from Iranian air strikes.…

Iranian Infrastructure and Israeli Confidence Heavily Damaged as Strikes Continue into Monday
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Iranian Infrastructure and Israeli Confidence Heavily Damaged as Strikes Continue into Monday

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025

As Iran and Israel traded missile strikes back and forth throughout the weekend, each has suffered significant damage—the former…

France and UK Mull Recognizing Palestinian State–Israel Has No Problem Saying it Will Never Happen
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France and UK Mull Recognizing Palestinian State–Israel Has No Problem Saying it Will Never Happen

June 9, 2025

It was originally planned that at an upcoming conference in New York, heads of state from France and the…

65% of Israelis Agree that God’s Command to Exterminate Amalek Applies to Palestinians, 80% for Ethnic Cleansing
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65% of Israelis Agree that God’s Command to Exterminate Amalek Applies to Palestinians, 80% for Ethnic Cleansing

May 26, 2025May 26, 2025

A poll by Penn State University has found that two thirds of Israelis support extermination of the Palestinians in…

Nuclear Powers Fire on Each Other: India Bombs Deep Inside Pakistan, Loses Jet in the Attack
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Nuclear Powers Fire on Each Other: India Bombs Deep Inside Pakistan, Loses Jet in the Attack

May 7, 2025

With a series of missiles and warplanes, India has struck “terrorist targets” inside Pakistan’s Punjab state, and Pakistan-administered Kashmir,…

Houthis Wreck $60 Million American F/A-18, Strike Israeli Base for a Second Time, Says Spokesman
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Houthis Wreck $60 Million American F/A-18, Strike Israeli Base for a Second Time, Says Spokesman

April 29, 2025

Story at a glance…  Strikes from Yemen’s Houthi government resulted in the loss of a US F/A-18 fighter jet,…

400 US Troops to Remain in Syria After Upcoming “Relocation” to Kurdish-Controlled Areas
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400 US Troops to Remain in Syria After Upcoming “Relocation” to Kurdish-Controlled Areas

April 24, 2025April 24, 2025

An upcoming relocation of US forces will see the majority or all of the remaining soldiers and supplies in…

Israel Warns ‘People of Gaza’ of ‘Far Harsher Devastation’—CNN Calls it an ‘Offensive’
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Israel Warns ‘People of Gaza’ of ‘Far Harsher Devastation’—CNN Calls it an ‘Offensive’

March 24, 2025

In a statement of genocidal intent as the International Court of Justice would describe it, Israeli Defense Minister Israel…

Terrorism on the Rise in Europe, Africa, and Syria While the World Struggles with Record Conflict Numbers
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Terrorism on the Rise in Europe, Africa, and Syria While the World Struggles with Record Conflict Numbers

March 10, 2025March 9, 2025

A recent report found that deaths by terrorism have risen to their highest levels in Africa, while also recording…

Israeli Losses in Trade and Soldiers Much Higher Than Previously Thought
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Israeli Losses in Trade and Soldiers Much Higher Than Previously Thought

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025

Israel’s newly appointed Chief of Staff, Major General Eyal Zamir has stated Israel’s war dead at 5,942 from the…

Four Factions and Three Countries Poised for Small War Inside Syria: Reports
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Four Factions and Three Countries Poised for Small War Inside Syria: Reports

January 16, 2025

Further conflict seems inevitable in Syria two months after the collapse of the Assad regime and the rise of…

Russian Forces Close in on Last Major Donbas Town While Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Garners Little
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Russian Forces Close in on Last Major Donbas Town While Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Garners Little

January 14, 2025

The new year has seen a renewed effort by the Ukrainian army to advance into Russia’s home oblast of…

Leaked Iraqi Intelligence Report Implicates US-Forces in the Survival and Protection of ISIS
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Leaked Iraqi Intelligence Report Implicates US-Forces in the Survival and Protection of ISIS

January 2, 2025

According to a report from Iraqi intelligence seen by The Cradle, thousands of ISIS fighters emerged from the eastern…

BBC Journalists Reveal Editorial Policy of Whitewashing Israeli War Crimes, Matches New York Times Guidelines
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BBC Journalists Reveal Editorial Policy of Whitewashing Israeli War Crimes, Matches New York Times Guidelines

December 30, 2024

In a worrying trend for media integrity, another major Western news outlet has been revealed to have strict editorial…

Kurdish Commander Says They Have Agreement with HTS on Post-War Relations, Sending Delegation to Damascus
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Kurdish Commander Says They Have Agreement with HTS on Post-War Relations, Sending Delegation to Damascus

December 13, 2024

Throughout the whole of the conflict in Syria, the population in Kurdistan to the northeast has retained a degree…

Who is Syria’s de Facto leader al-Jolani? — According to WaL
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Who is Syria’s de Facto leader al-Jolani? — According to WaL

December 10, 2024

Following the remarkably fast collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, the global news media have had to dig…

Trump’s Foreign Policy Failures Encapsulated by Fresh Terrorist Violence in Syria’s Aleppo
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Failures Encapsulated by Fresh Terrorist Violence in Syria’s Aleppo

December 3, 2024

A major terrorist offensive has been launched at Syria’s battered northwest city of Aleppo, led by a mixture of…

Russia Targets Ukraine with Strange Possibly-Ballistic Missile Following US Escalation
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Russia Targets Ukraine with Strange Possibly-Ballistic Missile Following US Escalation

November 25, 2024

Ukrainian ballistics experts recently issued a press statement regarding an unknown missile type just fired by Russia at the…

US Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire at UN Security Council Even Though it Included Call for Immediate Hostage Release
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US Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire at UN Security Council Even Though it Included Call for Immediate Hostage Release

November 21, 2024

On Wednesday, the US used its veto in a UN Security Council Resolution to demand an unconditional ceasefire and…

Human Rights Rapporteur Urges Expulsion of Israel from United Nation
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Human Rights Rapporteur Urges Expulsion of Israel from United Nation

November 4, 2024November 7, 2024

In a new report submitted at the recent session of the UN General Assembly, the organization’s Special Rapporteur on…

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Italy Quietly Tries to Renew Military Cooperation Agreement with Israel, Law firm Notices and Objects

Andy Corbley May 23, 2025

Signed in 2002 and entering into force in 2005, few Italian citizens will know what has resulted from a…

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Houthis Defeat the Americans, Claim Destruction of Another F/A-18 and Strike Israel with Drones

Andy Corbley May 8, 2025

Yemen has claimed responsibility for an attack on the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier that caused a second F/A-18…

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Former Georgia Senator Joins Trump’s Kettle of China Hawks as US Ambassador to Beijing

Andy Corbley May 1, 2025

Former Georgia Senator and businessman David Perdue was recently confirmed with a bipartisan vote as the new US Ambassador…

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