2026-07-09 - Middle East & Africa Reports - A Skeptic News
The U.S. said it struck more than 80 targets in southern Iran after attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, while Tehran launched missiles and drones at U.S. military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait
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Today’s Top Middle East & Africa Geopolitical Reporting
Presented by A Skeptic News on July 8, 2026 at 7:05:40 PM GMT.
We have collected the top geopolitical conflict articles from the Middle East & Africa and brought them all here. If you’re tired of only having access to MSM versions of the story, you’ve found the right place. We’ll include all of the outlets we know of. For this post, we looked at 10 news sites and located 61 current articles out of 472 reviewed.
Today’s featured news sites are:
Middle East Monitor, Presstv, AL-MONITOR: The Pulse of The Middle East, Mehr News Agency, IRNA English, JPost.com - The Jerusalem Post - All News from the Middle East, Israel, and the Jewish World, Haaretz latest headlines, Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera, Military Africa.
Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy said Wednesday that Israeli authorities had prevented his planned visit to the occupied Palestinian territories, Anadolu reports. “The Palestinian authorities have informed the General Secretariat of the Israeli refusal to permit a visit that Mr. Nabil Fahmy intended to make to the occupied Palestinian territories on Wednesday,” his spokesperson said on th...
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian academic who lived in France for eight years, has been unjustly detained for condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza on social media.
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Million-strong crowds filled the streets of Iraq’s holy city of Najaf on Wednesday as funeral ceremonies for Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, began. His coffin will be taken to Karbala before returning to Iran for burial in Mashhad, bringing to an end a week-long farewell. Iranian leaders sought to reflect Khamenei’s status during the ceremonies. He led the Islamic Republic for nearl...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
What does it mean for Donald Trump to choose Ankara—politically and geographically the closest major capital to Iran—to declare that the memorandum of understanding with Tehran “is over,” and that he no longer wishes to “deal with sick leaders”? Is this simply another burst of anger from a president known for saying one thing in the evening and contradicting it the next morning? Or does the place ...
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
Europe’s bid to reimpose UN sanctions on Tehran has ignited a fierce backlash, with Iran denouncing the move as “illegal” and vowing firm retaliation.
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Jul 8, 2026 - en.irna.ir
Tehran, IRNA – The daughter of the martyred Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late secretary-general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, has stressed Iran has always been the main supporter of the Axis of Resistance, adding the blood of the martyred Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has further united allied nations within the resistance front.
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
A Hezbollah-linked lawmaker says Israeli ceasefire violations and house demolitions continue in southern Lebanon in light of the Beirut government’s complete silence and inaction.
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Jul 8, 2026 - al-monitor.com
By Maayan LubellTEL AVIV, July 8 (Reuters) - Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat weighing a 2028 U.S. presidential run, said on Wednesday that Israel risks jeopardizing its alliance with Washington unless it changes course on the Palestinians because of growing unease with its policies among U.S. voters.A former Chicago mayor and chief of staff to former President Barack Obama, Emanuel used a speech at Tel A...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Mohammed Fawaz Al-Wahidi, director of the Egyptian Committee in Gaza City, was killed on Tuesday after an Israeli airstrike targeted his vehicle in central Gaza City, according to Palestinian sources. Witnesses said an Israeli drone fired a missile at Al-Wahidi’s vehicle near Al-Jazeera Club in the city center. The strike killed Al-Wahidi, 57, and injured several other people who were with him. Hi...
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Jul 8, 2026 - al-monitor.com
The visit by the Lebanese head of state will coincide with ongoing US-sponsored Lebanon-Israel talks.
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Jul 8, 2026 - en.mehrnews.com
TEHRAN, Jul. 08 (MNA) – The Iranian army conducted retaliatory drone attacks targeting gathering centers of US terrorist forces at Sheikh Isa base in Bahrain in the early hours of Wednesday.
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
An Israeli minister confirms that the Iron Dome battery was deployed to the UAE during the war against Iran.
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Jul 8, 2026 - jpost.com
The findings follow an investigation by the IDF’s Missing Persons Branch, which further noted that the grave contained the remains of seven additional IDF soldiers.
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
A UN commission on Wednesday called on Israel to immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, and all Palestinian medical personnel held in arbitrary detention, expressing concern over reports that he has been subjected to “severe abuse” while in custody, Anadolu reports. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian ...
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem has vowed the group will not disarm while Israeli occupation persists, denouncing Lebanon’s cabinet decision on its weapons as a US-driven move that risks sparking civil strife.
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Jul 8, 2026 - aljazeera.com
More than a million mourners packed streets in Najaf, Iraq for Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s funeral procession.
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
The largest Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, says the Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets during the devastating wars against Gaza and Lebanon.
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Brent crude rose further on Wednesday after the US military carried out fresh air strikes in Iran and revoked a waiver that had allowed Tehran to sell crude on global markets, Anatoly agency reported. The international benchmark was up more than 3.3 percent to $76.6 per barrel as of 0600GMT. Brent has surged more than 6 percent so far this week as renewed tensions around the Strait of Hormuz reviv...
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Middle East Monitor
Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Iran says commercial navigation through the Strait of Hormuz is continuing under arrangements established by Tehran, as maritime security agencies warn of an elevated threat environment in the strategic waterway. According to a report by Bloomberg, citing a document, Iran has informed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that it exercises authority over parts of the Strait of Hormuz. Sepa...
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Middle East Monitor
Jul 7, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Arab countries strongly denounced twin explosions that injured 18 people near Syria’s Tourism Ministry in central Damascus on Tuesday, reiterating support for Syria’s security and stability, Anadolu reports. In a statement on the US social media company X, the Saudi Foreign Ministry expressed Riyadh’s “strongest condemnation and denunciation of the cowardly terrorist attack.” “The Kingdom reiterat...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine Hamas’s decision to dissolve its government and the wider implications of Trump’s so called peace plan, as Israel moves ahead with proposals for “controlled humanitarian zones”. We also discuss whether Hamas remains a major threat or has become a convenient justification for continued Israeli domination, before turning to new claims about 7 Octobe...
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Jul 7, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Hamas’s decision to dissolve the Government Emergency Committee in the Gaza Strip and transfer civilian administration to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza marks a significant strategic shift. To interpret it as capitulation or defeat is to misunderstand the current stage of the Palestinian national liberation struggle. The movement has reaffirmed its commitment to implementing...
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Jul 8, 2026 - military.africa
The Nigerian Army commissioned a new Wargaming Center at the Army War College Nigeria (AWCN) in Asokoro, Abuja, on 25 June 2026. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Waidi […]
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
The Israeli military on Wednesday, demolished a newly built Palestinian home in the West Bank town of Idhna, west of Hebron, citing a lack of Israeli-issued construction permits, Anadolu reports. Local resident Hamza Batran told Anadolu that Israeli forces accompanied by heavy bulldozers raided the village before sealing off the site. Troops then demolished a 160-square-meter (about 1,720-square-f...
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
Massive protests erupt across Lebanon as citizens reject a US-backed plan to disarm Hezbollah, warning it would expose the country—especially its southern border—to increased Israeli aggression and undermine national security.
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Jul 8, 2026 - en.irna.ir
Tehran, IRNA – China’s ambassador to Tehran says Beijing supports restoring normal conditions in the Strait of Hormuz and calls on the international community to respect Iran’s legitimate rights as a coastal state.
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Kuwait said on Wednesday that its air defences had intercepted hostile missiles and drones, while Bahrain sounded an air raid siren and urged residents to seek shelter. The Kuwaiti military said in a statement on X that its air defence systems were “currently confronting intercepting hostile missile and drone attacks”. It added that “if explosion sounds are heard, they are the result of air defenc...
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Jul 8, 2026 - en.irna.ir
Tehran, IRNA – Sheikh Maher Hammoud, head of the International Union of Resistance Scholars, says support from the martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was instrumental in sustaining Palestinian resistance in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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Jul 8, 2026 - jpost.com
Abolfazl Jahedi, an 18-year-old from Tehran, dreamed of studying firefighting and serving his country by saving lives before being killed by regime security forces in January.
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
In politics, not everything is measured by the ballot box. Nations sometimes speak in moments when no ballots are cast, no electoral competition is underway, and no official institution has asked for public input. Yet these moments can reveal more about a society’s condition, citizens’ sense of belonging, and their relationship with national identity and authority than many formal elections. The n...
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Jul 8, 2026 - al-monitor.com
By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowallDUBAI, July 8 - Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become a “golden weapon” to Iran, for which it is willing to risk new escalations with the United States, and is a bigger priority than a nuclear programme for which it accepted decades of sanctions.So central is the issue to Iranian strategy that ships passing the Strait without Tehran’s approval were fired u...
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AL-MONITOR: The Pulse of The Middle East
Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that it had targeted 85 US military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait with missiles and drones, in response to US attacks on the south of Iran overnight. Iran’s Fars News Agency quoted an IRGC statement as saying that the United States had violated a ceasefire by carrying out airstrikes on sites in the coastal cities of Hormozgan and...
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) calls on Israeli officials to immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
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Jul 8, 2026 - haaretz.com
A Haaretz investigation traced the trafficking of hundreds of firearms copied from Israeli-made pistols, reverse-engineered in Iraq and smuggled back into Israel, where they have ended up in the hands of terrorist groups and criminal gangs
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
The US will “probably” hit Iran again on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump warned, after US strikes against Tehran following attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Anadolu reports. “We hit them very hard last night, very, very. Probably hit them hard again tonight. I’ll give him a little warning. We’re going to hit him hard tonight,” Trump said at a meeting with Ukrainian President Volody...
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Middle East Monitor
Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
A new survey by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicates a significant decline in public support for Israel in the United States, alongside growing divisions over the war in Gaza. According to the poll, about one-third of American adults believe Israel committed genocide against Palestinians during the conflict in Gaza. Around 20 percent said they do not believe genoc...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Fifteen-year-old Palestinian student Tala Mohammed Awad, a survivor of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, has won a gold medal in the second phase of the Mathematics Olympiad for Public Schools in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, known as OMASP 2026. Tala secured the top honor after excelling in the statewide public school competition, marking a major academic achievement for a student who...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that although he and US President Donald Trump occasionally disagree over Iran, they are “completely aligned” on the main issues concerning the country. Speaking in an interview with CNN, Netanyahu said it was too early to predict what would happen after Washington and Tehran signed a temporary agreement. He said: “President Trump believes ...
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Jul 8, 2026 - en.mehrnews.com
TEHRAN, Jul. 08 (MNA) – US President Donald Trump says the ceasefire deal with Iran is “over”.
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Jul 8, 2026 - jpost.com
In Ankara, Zelensky pressed NATO allies for “effective anti-ballistic systems and missiles,” and emphasized that ballistic missiles were “Russia’s last major advantage.”
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Khan Yunis also wounded more than 20 people, according to medical sources.
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Jul 7, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
The Israeli army is facing a moral deterioration playing out among soldiers amid a high state of fear, a reserve officer said, as Israel continued its war in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports. “I don’t want to write about the hardship of repeated reserve duty or about the damage it does to one’s body and soul, even though these important topics should be discussed more often,” the officer, who did n...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
A new AP-NORC poll has revealed a sharp erosion of US public support for Israel, with around one-third of American adults saying they believe Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The survey, conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research between 11 June and 17 June, found that about 30 per cent of US adults believe Israel’s military campaign in Gaz...
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Jul 8, 2026 - haaretz.com
While the frustrated Lebanese leadership is escalating its rhetoric against Israel and Hezbollah largely refrains from action, the IDF continues its targeted operations, raising the Lebanese’s concern that the seemingly temporary reality will become a permanent one
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says it struck 85 US military targets in Bahrain and Kuwait with missiles and drones in an initial response to to American aggression against Iranian territory.
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Israeli prison forces attempted to kill Palestinian detainee Ghassan Ibrahim Zawahreh by shooting him three times with rubber bullets inside Negev prison, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Wednesday. In a statement, the nongovernmental organization held Israeli prison authorities fully responsible for Zawahreh’s life. Zawahreh, from the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem in the southern occu...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
The lawyer for detained Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has warned that he fears for his client’s life after seeing him severely beaten during a prison visit at Israel’s Rakefet interrogation facility. Nasser Odeh said he visited Abu Safiya last Thursday and struggled to recognise him because of the extent of his injuries. “He nearly lost consciousness several times,” Odeh told the BBC, addin...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
The death toll from an Israeli drone strike on a civilian vehicle in Gaza City rose to four on Wednesday after an 8-year-old Palestinian child succumbed to his wounds, according to Palestinian sources, Anadolu reports. Fadi al-Deiri died of wounds sustained in Tuesday evening’s strike on a civilian vehicle in the Sabra neighborhood, a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital told Anadolu. Three Palesti...
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Jul 7, 2026 - haaretz.com
‘They’re trying to wipe out a civilization as far as I’m concerned,’ Harold Kalmus, a 69-year-old Democrat from Arden, Delaware who describes himself as Jewish by birth said of Israel’s military action against the Palestinians
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Jul 8, 2026 - military.africa
HAVELSAN ADVENT Combat Management System (CMS) has entered service with the Romanian Navy, marking the first time the solution has been deployed by a NATO member. The delivery was completed […]
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Jul 8, 2026 - jpost.com
The war in Gaza and the collapse of momentum toward Israeli-Saudi normalization have forced Riyadh to reassess the route of the project.
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Jul 8, 2026 - al-monitor.com
July 8 (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed at least nine Palestinians, including two children, aged 10 and 6, in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, health officials there said.Medics said an Israeli airstrike killed one person near a school in Gaza City. Twelve people were wounded in the two incidents. The Israeli military said it struck militants in Gaza City, but was unaware of casualtie...
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
Dozens of British lawmakers have called on the UK government to impose sanctions on Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his minister over Israel’s torture of Palestinian civilians.
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf said on Wednesday that the United States had committed serious violations of its memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iran. In a post on X, Ghalibaf said the violations included what he described as: “violating Iranian adjustments in the Strait of Hormuz, persistent threats of further strikes, reinstating oil sanctions, attacks on southern Iran, ...
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Jul 8, 2026 - al-monitor.com
ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he thought Israel would withdraw troops from southern Lebanon because it wanted to take that step, despite comments from Israel’s leader indicating otherwise.Trump told reporters at the NATO Summit in Ankara that he had discussed a withdrawal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”Yeah, I think they’re going to...
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Jul 8, 2026 - en.mehrnews.com
TEHRAN, Jul. 08 (MNA) – The 2026 US-Israeli war failed to isolate Iran, instead convinced Arab states to pursue a new regional security order rooted in coexistence and the management of competition rather than confrontation.
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
The Irish parliament approved a bill on Tuesday banning the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, as Dublin moves towards adopting one of the toughest trade measures in Europe on the issue. The legislation bans the import of goods from “certain Israeli settlements” located outside Israel’s internationally recognised borders, covering products linked to h...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
Israeli forces raided the Wadi al-Raqad area in the western Daraa countryside in southern Syria on Wednesday, opening fire before withdrawing from the area, Syrian state media reported. Syria’s Alikhbariah TV said Israeli forces entered the Wadi al-Raqad area, opened fire and later withdrew. There were no reports of casualties or material damage, and Israeli authorities did not immediately comment...
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Jul 8, 2026 - middleeastmonitor.com
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to make his first official visit to Israel on Wednesday amid heightened regional tensions and Israeli concerns over reports that Washington may consider approving the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey. It was not immediately clear whether recent US military strikes targeting Iran would affect the timing of the visit or lead to changes in the ...
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Jul 8, 2026 - presstv.ir
UNICEF says more than 300 children have been killed or injured in Sudan during the past six months, with drone strikes responsible for most casualties.
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