Category: All Conflicts
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 🕊️ Iranian forces seize two ships in critical waterway as Washington and Tehran maintain separate blockades Middle East crisis – live updates Iranian forces have seized two ships in the strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades of the shipping waterway. The…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Lebanon ⚔️ Amal Khalil had been buried in rubble after an Israeli strike that also injured another journalist, Zeinab Faraj Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed a journalist on Wednesday after rescuers were blocked from accessing the building where she was buried under rubble because of further Israeli fire, according…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 This blog is now closed. Follow our new live blog on the Middle East crisis here If you’re just joining us, here’s the main news of the day. It is 9.30am in Tehran, 9am in Jerusalem and Beirut, and 2am in Washington DC. Donald Trump unilaterally said he…
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📍 Gaza (approximate area) ⚔️ Gaza 📍 While the population of southern Lebanon have sometimes felt abandoned by their own state, a show in London told their stories and celebrated their resistance In one room of London’s Palestine House, a large screen plays looped news footage from southern Lebanon. Tanks and armoured vehicles plough their…
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📍 Tehran ⚔️ Iran 📍 Iran’s plan to extract a $2m payment from tankers using the strait of Hormuz could raise costs for years to come A second round of peace talks between the US and Iran has begun amid renewed attacks on oil tankers in the strait of Hormuz and a US blockade on…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Iran’s Revolutionary Guards released footage purportedly showing its forces seizing two vessels in the strait of Hormuz and escorting them to Iranian shores. Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency said the two ships attempted ‘to exit the strait of Hormuz covertly’. The White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said President…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Tehran has shown that its grip over the strait of Hormuz is its most potent deterrent – arguably more consequential than its now defunct nuclear programme Fawaz Gerges is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics Donald Trump’s decision to go to war against Iran…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Jim Taiclet spoke in earnings call as company expands contracts with the US government amid the Iran war Lockheed Martin’s CEO has called the Trump administration a “golden opportunity” for the company as it expands its contracting work for the federal government amid the conflict in the Middle…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran ⚔️ President says forces can ‘shoot and kill’ any boat laying mines and claims the US has ‘total control’ of the strait ‘Impossible’ to reopen strait of Hormuz amid ‘flagrant’ ceasefire breaches, Iran says The Pentagon abruptly announced that the secretary of the US navy, John Phelan, would be…
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📍 World (approximate area) ⚔️ Iran 📍 Committee to Protect Journalists says Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was found innocent after 52 days in detention Middle East crisis – live updates A Kuwaiti-American journalist, who had been detained in Kuwait, has been acquitted, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who has previously worked for…