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Wednesday, 09 October 2024 04:55

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 369

Hezbollah targets Israeli troops on Lebanese border, sirens in Beirut Hezbollah militants targeted Israeli soldiers near the Lebanese border village of Labbouneh with artillery shells and rockets on Wednesday, the group said in a statement, a day after Israel said it had killed two successors to Hezbollah's slain leader. Sirens sounded in northern Israel on Wednesday, the Israeli military said, adding three Israeli military personnel were severely injured on Tuesday and Wednesday during combat in southern Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday Israeli airstrikes had killed two successors to Hezbollah's slain leader. Netanyahu spoke in a video…

Wednesday, 09 October 2024 04:54

What to know after Day 958 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukraine's Zelenskiy wants missiles, faster results on battlefield President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine needed to secure and deploy advanced missiles and to achieve faster results with them on the battlefield. Speaking in his nightly video address, Zelenskiy said a meeting with top commanders had been devoted to the development of domestic weapons supplies in the more than 2-1/2-year war against Russia. This, he said, involved drones, electronic warfare and, above all, deploying missiles that would reap rapid benefits in battlefield confrontations with Russian forces. "Special emphasis is on our national missile programme in all its…

Tuesday, 08 October 2024 04:57

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 368

Israel tallies a year of Gaza war: 40,000 targets bombed, 4,700 tunnels hit In the past year in the Gaza Strip, Israel has bombed more than 40,000 targets, found 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launcher sites, the military said on Monday's one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led militant attacks that triggered Israel's assault on the enclave. Tallying troops whose names it received permission to publish, Israel's military said 726 Israeli soldiers had been killed since Oct. 7, 2023. Of those, 380 died in the Oct. 7 attacks and 346 in Gaza combat starting Oct. 27, 2023. Injured troops numbered…

Tuesday, 08 October 2024 04:56

What to know after Day 957 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russian forces reach another key frontline city, Ukraine's military says Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the eastern Ukraine frontline city of Toretsk, Ukraine's military said late on Monday, less than a week after the fall of the nearby bastion town of Vuhledar. "The situation is unstable, fighting is taking place literally at every entrance (to the city)," Anastasiia Bobovnikova, spokesperson of the Operational Tactical Group "Luhansk" told Ukraine's national broadcaster. "The Russians have entered the eastern outskirts of the city." Russia, which controls now just under a fifth of Ukrainian territory, has been advancing towards Toretsk…

Monday, 07 October 2024 04:38

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 367

Israel bombs Lebanon, Gaza ahead of one-year anniversary of Oct. 7 attacks Israel bombed targets in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip on Sunday ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks that sparked its war, as Israel's defence minister declared all options were open for retaliation against arch-enemy Iran. Hezbollah rockets launched late on Sunday got past Israeli air defence systems and landed in Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, causing damage to buildings, police said. Israeli media reported 10 people wounded in rocket strikes in Haifa and the city of Tiberias. Hezbollah said it had targeted a military site…

Monday, 07 October 2024 04:36

What to know after Day 956 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Russian missile blows up Ukrainian ship unloading ammo – MOD Russian forces have destroyed a Ukrainian ship carrying Western-made ammunition which was docked in Odessa Region, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said, releasing video of the purported strike. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said that an Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile successfully hit a transport docked in Yuzhny (known as Pivdennyi in Ukraine) Seaport located some 30km east of Odessa. “The missile strike was carried out at the moment of unloading. The objective control footage shows the detonation of the ammunition,” officials said, adding that the…

Sunday, 06 October 2024 04:53

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 366

Heavy strikes shake Beirut as Israel expands Lebanon campaign Massive consecutive strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs from late Saturday into Sunday, Reuters eyewitnesses said, sending booms across the city and sparking flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minutes visible from several kilometers away. The strikes came after days of bombing by Israel of Beirut suburbs considered strongholds for Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, killing its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and possibly his potential successor. A Lebanese security source said on Saturday that Hashem Safieddine, the potential successor, had been out of contact since Friday, after an Israeli airstrike near…

Sunday, 06 October 2024 04:52

What to know after Day 955 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia retrains ex-soldiers heading back to the battlefield The bearded ex-driver and foundry worker, who identified himself only by his call sign, signed up with the army on Monday. By Friday, he was going through his paces at a training ground in Russia's southern Rostov region, practising firing from an automatic rifle and simulating the storming of a building. Two and a half years into its war with Ukraine, Russia is offering one-off bonuses of up to 1.9 million roubles ($20,000) - 22 times the average monthly wage - to men prepared to sign volunteer contracts as professional…

Saturday, 05 October 2024 04:25

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 365

Israel targets Hezbollah intel HQ in Lebanon, Iran says it will not back down Israel said it had targeted the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut and was assessing the damage on Friday after a series of strikes on senior figures in the group that Iran's Supreme Leader dismissed as counterproductive. Israel has been weighing options in its response to Iran's ballistic missile attack on Tuesday, which Iran had carried out in response to Israel's military action in Lebanon. Oil prices have risen on the possibility of an attack on Iran's oil facilities as Israel pursues its goals of pushing…

Saturday, 05 October 2024 04:24

What to know after Day 954 of Russia-Ukraine war

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Russia knocked out most infrastructure in Ukraine's Pokrovsk, local official says Russia knocked out around 80% of critical infrastructure in the town of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub in Ukraine's east, as Moscow's troops inched forward, a local official said on Friday. Serhiy Dobriak, Pokrovsk's military administration head, said Russian forces were at about 7 km (4 miles) from the town, which is at an intersection of roads and a railway that makes it an important logistics point for the military and for civilians in the eastern Donetsk region. Russia forces have focused some of their heaviest assaults…

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Friday, 04 October 2024 04:44

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 364

How might Israel strike back against Iran? Israel has sworn it will retaliate for Iran's missile barrage on Tuesday, which involved more than 180 ballistic missiles and was largely thwarted by Israel's air defense systems. Below are some ways Israel, backed by the United States, could strike back. GO AFTER IRAN'S MILITARY INSTALLATIONS Some analysts believe Israel is most likely to respond by targeting Iranian military installations, especially those that produce ballistic missiles like the ones used in Tuesday's attacks. It could also take out Iranian air defense systems and missile-launching facilities. Washington has accused Tehran of supplying short-range ballistic…

Friday, 04 October 2024 04:43

What to know after Day 953 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Powerful Russian bomb destroys Ukrainian ammunition depot – MOD The Russian military has dropped one of the most powerful bombs in its arsenal on a Ukrainian ammunition depot in the southern part of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the nation’s defense ministry said on Thursday as it published footage from the scene. Moscow’s troops have struck an ammunition storage facility located in the village of Razliv, the statement said. The settlement is located some 23 kilometers to the West from Kurakhovo – a major logistics hub used by Kiev’s forces in the area. The village is also situated…

Thursday, 03 October 2024 04:32

Here’s the latest as Israel-Hamas war enters Day 363

Israel strikes heart of Beirut, killing six Israel bombed central Beirut in the early hours of Thursday, killing at least six people, after its forces suffered their deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year of clashes against Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah. Israel said it conducted a precise air strike on Beirut. Reuters witnesses reported hearing a massive blast, and a security source said it targeted a building in central Beirut's Bachoura neighbourhood close to parliament, the nearest Israeli strikes have come to Lebanon's seat of government. At least six people were killed and seven wounded, Lebanese health officials…

Thursday, 03 October 2024 04:29

What to know after Day 952 of Russia-Ukraine war

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Drones now capable of missions that used to be assigned exclusively to planes — Putin Modern-day drones can perform missions that only combat planes used to be able to take on, Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he met with college students majoring in drone technology. The president held the meeting at the Rudnevo industrial park, where Moscow-based colleges hold professional training for students studying how to assemble and operate drones. The students told Putin about their inventions and skills. "Modern unmanned aerial vehicles are gradually but fundamentally changing the principles of military operations," Putin said. "They can…

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