WARS
Saturday, 03 February 2024 04:45
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 120
Hamas says it's studying Gaza cease-fire proposal, but appears to rule out key provisions Hamas officials said Friday that the group is studying a proposed cease-fire deal that would include prolonged pauses in fighting in Gaza and swaps of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, but the militants appeared to rule out some key components. Hamas remains committed to its initial demands for a permanent cease-fire, the group’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh and a senior Beirut-based official, Osama Hamdan, said. Hamdan also said the group seeks the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners being held for acts related to the…
Saturday, 03 February 2024 04:44
What to know after Day 709 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian military reports gains against Ukrainian troops The Russian military is making advances at multiple locations along the frontline in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), according to a daily press briefing of the country’s Defense Ministry released on Friday. Over the past 24 hours, Moscow’s troops have inflicted heavy casualties on the adversary, amounting to up to 795 servicemen. The DPR saw intense combat at multiple locations, with the troops “taking up better positions”near the village of Klescheevka, located to the southwest of the town of Artyomovsk (known in Ukraine as Bakhmut). The small village has been experiencing…
Friday, 02 February 2024 04:57
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 119
Israel turns focus of Gaza attack to Rafah as Hamas weighs ceasefire proposal Israel prepared to advance its war on Gaza farther south, close to the Egyptian border, after claiming to have dismantled Hamas in Khan Younis, as diplomatic efforts in pursuit of a ceasefire accelerated. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Thursday that success in the fight against the Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, where Israel launched a major ground attack last week, meant its forces could advance to Rafah on the enclave's southern border. More than half of Gaza's 2.3 million people are…
Friday, 02 February 2024 04:55
What to know after Day 708 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE EU agrees $54 billion in new aid for Ukraine as Hungary falls in line European Union leaders unanimously agreed on Thursday to extend 50 billion euros ($54 billion) in new aid to Ukraine, sending a message to the United States split on whether to keep backing Kyiv in its fight against Russia's invasion. The agreement overcomes weeks of resistance from Hungary and comes amid uncertainty over the future of U.S. aid. Kyiv relies heavily on Western support as the war, the biggest conflict in Europe since World War Two, nears its third year. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said…
Thursday, 01 February 2024 04:50
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 118
Fighting kills more in north Gaza as South Africa alleges Israel ignores court ruling Gaza’s Health Ministry says people are still being killed in fighting in the northern part of the territory, the initial target of Israel’s ground offensive into the Gaza Strip that has seen entire neighborhoods flattened. The Health Ministry said more than 150 people were killed and an additional 313 wounded as Israeli forces continued to battle militants Wednesday. Israel’s military said its forces killed more than 15 Hamas militants in northern Gaza in the past day and targeted militant infrastructure in a school. South Africa’s foreign…
Thursday, 01 February 2024 04:48
What to know after Day 707 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russia to expand Ukraine’s ‘demilitarized zone’ – Putin Russia needs to create a large “demilitarized zone” in Ukraine, one that is big enough to ensure no longe-range weapons can strike Russian cities, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russian border regions have been subjected to frequent drone and missile attacks, as well as shelling by the Ukrainian military, since the start of the conflict between Kiev and Moscow. One of the deadliest attacks took place on December 30, when Kiev’s forces struck the Russian border city of Belgorod with multiple rocket launchers, including the RM-70 Vampire – an…
Wednesday, 31 January 2024 04:38
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 117
Israeli forces dressed as civilian women and medics kill 3 militants in West Bank hospital Israeli forces disguised as civilian women and medics stormed a hospital Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic raid that underscored how deadly violence has spilled into the territory from the war in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile ruled out a military withdrawal from Gaza or the release of thousands of jailed militants — Hamas’ main two demands for any cease-fire — casting doubt on the latest efforts to end a war that has destabilized the broader Middle…
Wednesday, 31 January 2024 04:37
What to know after Day 706 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russia has destroyed large share of Ukraine’s German tanks – media Ukraine’s military has lost a substantial proportion of its Leopard 2 battle tanks donated by foreign states, with more than a quarter destroyed by Russian troops and the rest damaged beyond Kiev’s capacity to repair them, according to Foreign Affairs magazine. While Western media reports touted the German-made tank as a game-changer after Berlin authorized the transfers last year, Kiev has since discovered they are “hardly invulnerable superweapons,” the outlet reported on Monday. “Of the fewer than 100 Leopard 2s in Ukrainian service, at least 26 have…
Tuesday, 30 January 2024 04:51
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 116
Israel military operation destroys a Gaza cemetery. Israel says Hamas used the site to hide a tunnel The Islamic cemetery in southern Gaza was demolished, graves excised from the earth. A skull with no teeth rested atop the sandy, churned rubble. The neighborhood of Bani Suheila in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, which soldiers showed foreign journalists Saturday, was obliterated, transformed by the military’s search for underground Hamas tunnels. An Associated Press journalist saw a destroyed mosque and — where the cemetery had once been – a 140-meter-(yard)-wide pit that gave way to what the army called a…
Tuesday, 30 January 2024 04:50
What to know after Day 705 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian shelling kills four in northern Ukraine, one in devastated Avdiivka Russian shelling in northern Ukraine killed four people in two villages in Sumy region near the Russian border, while a woman died in a fresh assault on the devastated eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, local officials said. The local administration in Sumy region said three people died in mortar fire in the village of Znov-Novohorodske. A fourth was killed in another village to the southeast. Reuters could not verify the reports, but officials in Sumy region report daily attacks from Russian forces. In Avdiivka, a Ukrainian-held town…
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Monday, 29 January 2024 04:36
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 115
Israel notes 'significant gaps' after cease-fire talks with US, Qatar, Egypt but says constructive Israel said “significant gaps” remain after cease-fire talks Sunday with the United States, Qatar and Egypt but called them constructive and said they would continue in the week ahead, a tentative sign of progress on a potential agreement that could see Israel pause military operations against Hamas in exchange for the release of remaining hostages. The U.S. announced its first military deaths in the region since the war began and blamed Iran-backed militants for the drone strike in Jordan that killed three American service members amid…
Monday, 29 January 2024 04:35
What to know after Day 704 of Russia-Ukraine war
WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia's drones, missiles target Ukraine's critical infrastructure, Ukraine says Russia launched drone and missile attacks targeting civilian and critical infrastructure across wide areas of Ukraine, Kyiv's Air Force said on Sunday. Preliminary information did not show any casualties in the attacks, the air force said on the Telegram messaging app. Russia and Ukraine have increased their air attacks on each other's territory in recent months, targeting critical military, energy and transport infrastructure. The air force said Russia attacked the central Poltava region with two ballistic missiles fired from the Iskander ballistic missile system, and three surface-to-air missiles over…
Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:40
Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 114
Embattled UN agency warns its aid operation in Gaza is 'collapsing' over a wave of funding cuts The head of the main U.N. aid agency in the war-battered Gaza Strip warned late Saturday that its work is collapsing after nine countries decided to cut funding over allegations that several agency employees had participated in the deadly Hamas attack against Israel four months ago. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, said he was shocked such decisions were taken as “famine looms” in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. “Palestinians in Gaza did not need this additional collective punishment,” he…
Sunday, 28 January 2024 04:39
What to know after Day 703 of Russia-Ukraine war
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE US to change strategy on Ukraine – WaPo The US is working on a new strategy for Ukraine that would mark a departure from the failed forward push of 2023 and instead focus on frontline defense, the Washington Post has reported. The supposed adjustments come in response to Kiev’s failed counteroffensive last year, the newspaper added. In an article on Friday, the newspaper quoted a senior White House official explaining that “it will be difficult for [Ukrainian forces] to try to mount the same kind of major push on all fronts that they tried to do last year.”…