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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in northern Gaza on Friday, forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather, the territory’s health ministry said. The army denied claims it had entered or set fire to the complex and accused Hamas of using the […]
One of the more surprising foreign policy ideas the Trump team has proposed on the eve of its ascension to power is military intervention in Mexico to go after drug cartels and possibly stop migrants headed to the United States. The idea seemed so wild and provocative — siccing U.S. troops on a peaceful neighbor […]
The descendants of a hero of Ethiopia’s resistance against European imperialism are seeking to retrieve a gold medal taken from him by Italian troops, after the artefact’s current holder failed to sell it at an online auction earlier this month. The solid gold Imperial Order of the Star of Ethiopia used to be in the […]
Washington insists it was a coincidence that reinforcements were sent before the collapse of President Bashar Assad’s government The US has revealed that it has more than doubled its military presence in Syria, with a Pentagon spokesman saying that he “just recently learned” there were in fact roughly 2,000 American forces deployed in the country, […]
In a surprise announcement, the Defense Department disclosed Thursday that U.S. officials have doubled the number of American troops in Syria to support the fight ISIS, an increase that predates the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime this month. The Pentagon press secretary, Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, said at the Pentagon briefing that the U.S. has roughly 2,000 […]
Pentagon says the additional forces have been in Syria for ‘a while’, before fall of President Bashar al-Assad, though they were not publicly disclosed. After years of telling the public that the United States has about 900 troops in Syria, the Pentagon has revealed there are approximately 2,000 soldiers there — double the previous estimate. […]
North Korean soldiers are preparing to imminently target Ukrainian forces in Kursk, according to Kyiv. On Saturday, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a statement that on Friday, North Korean units had been “put on alert and ordered to wait further instructions” with some of Pyongyang’s troops being covertly transferred to the front by civilian trucks. […]
The Israeli prime minister said its forces would remain in Syrian territory until “a new force” filled the vacuum. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was in Jordan for talks on the aftermath of the Syrian regime’s fall. Source link
The move in the Golan Heights comes as Israel fears rebel groups could encroach on its border. Source link
A relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin accidentally revealed a confidential figure that gives a possible official insight into the extent of Russia’s war dead in Ukraine. Video published by the independent Astra Telegram channel on Tuesday showed Anna Tsivilyova, the reported daughter of Putin’s cousin and a deputy defence minister, saying that the government […]