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...In contrast with the position of the UK and other allies of Israel, the congressman had also “expressed support for any decision that Israel makes in light of the Iranian attack”, Netanyahu’s office said.Iran...
...Paragon was set up by Ehud Schneorson, the retired commander of Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite signals intelligence arm....
...“The commander-in-chief and the Congress must discharge our fundamental duties without delay. The consequences of failure are clear, devastating, and avoidable.”...
...Israel says it had long tracked the commanders’ movements....
...The strikes are the latest escalation in regional hostilities that have intensified since the start of the conflict in Gaza....
...region and the southern regional capital of Kherson in autumn 2022....
...The UK’s Maritime Trade Operations office, based in Dubai, reported that the vessel had been “seized by regional authorities”....
...The same is true of every other city and town in the region — more than 1mn people have fled since 2022, according to regional authorities....
...Meanwhile, a Lebanese man accused by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control of funnelling Iranian money to Hamas was found dead in a town near Beirut....
...Hamas said Saleh al-Arouri, deputy political leader, was among seven members of the group killed in the blast at one of its offices....
...“We are not seeking war, but we are not afraid of it,” Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the guards, said this week....
...As part of a diplomatic overture to Yemen shortly after he took office, President Biden removed the Houthis from the US’s list of specially designated terror groups and an uneasy truce in the country’s civil...
...On the 14th floor of Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, high up in the defence minister’s office, a large pyramid adorns the wall made up of images of Hamas’s top ranks....
...Doha, which hosts Hamas’s political office, is also focusing on convincing the group to release the dozens of hostages, hoping that would lead to a de-escalation, the diplomat said....
...Mahmoud Ahmed, a German citizen who was authorised to leave, had been visiting his sick mother in Gaza when the war erupted and was forced to move from the north to the south of the enclave....
...Foreign companies may have to wait for several months if no presidential candidate wins at least 50 per cent of the vote, sending the race to a run-off in June. The winner will take office in October....
...Biden also updated Netanyahu on new US military deployments to the region as part of “ongoing efforts at regional deterrence”, the White House said in a statement on Monday evening....
...The mastermind: Hamas’s military commander Mohammed Deif is described as single-minded about changing the nature of the Israeli-Arab conflict, and using violence as a means to achieve his goals....
...Abdel Karim Mahmoud Ibrahim, the Syrian army’s chief of staff, and Ali Mahmoud Abbas, the country’s minister of defence, were both sanctioned for what the UK alleges is the systematic use of sexual and gender-based...
...drug-lord Adolfo “Fito” Macías from his cell in the nearby Regional prison on January 7....
...“There are two operational things that you need to do to prevent a build-up of terror in Gaza,” says Amir Avivi, former deputy commander of the Gaza Division of Israel’s military....
...Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force, the IRGC’s regional paramilitary outfit who was killed in January of 2020....
...In August, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired all the country’s regional army recruitment chiefs over the issuance of medical exemptions in return for bribes....
...The US Federal Reserve will release an anecdotal assessment of regional economic conditions gathered by each central bank branch known as the Beige Book....
...Jordan — one of the most dependable and dependent of the US’s regional allies — cancelled a summit at which Biden was to meet the Jordanian and Egyptian leaders, and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas....
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