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🔴 LIVE: War on Iran | Day 233
- IRGC intercepted and destroyed a US MQ-9 drone over the Strait of Hormuz
- Yemeni forces launch air strikes on Bani Moath in Saada
-Hind Rajab Foundation urges US to arrest Israeli commander
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“America as the guarantor to the world, for the last 80 years, it is no longer there,” Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey and Trump’s special envoy for Syria and Iraq, said on Tuesday at the Global Security Forum in Doha, Qatar
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David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, says that watching NAZA, a documentary featuring interviews with members of an elite Israeli army unit involved in supplying targets for what he describes as genocide, should be “compulsory” for Britain’s liberal Zionists
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“Saudi Arabia’s execution spree, particularly for offences by children, shows no signs of slowing down in 2026." Saudi executed a man convicted of offences committed as a child
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Bilgehan Ozturk told MEE that Khalifa Haftar, commander of LAAF, had been looking to diversify his regional relationships and that Ankara was offering things Greece could not
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"The women and girls in Azerbaijan resisting the hijab restrictions are challenging the very premise upon which this authoritarian secularism rests: that emancipation can be imposed from above"
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The Israeli Medical Association says security concerns, burnout and career prospects are driving departures of doctors from the country, raising fears of longer-term shortages in public hospitals
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Egypt and Turkey cohere on several hotspots while Gulf states seek new security partners, and Israel's interests are served by supporting Saddam Haftar's rise to power
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Pro-Palestinian Hasidic religious worker Yehonatan Ovadia attended pro-Palestine protests in 2023 and has been in detention since August
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Washington's role as world guarantor for eight decades "is no longer there", Tom Barrack says during Qatar's security forum
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Yousef al-Manasif, who was convicted over alleged offences committed when he was 15 and 16, is at risk of execution after the Supreme Court reportedly upheld his sentence
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In an statement, the Libyan House of Representatives in Benghazi said it had revoked a 2020 boycott decision targeting Ankara, signalling an improvement in ties between Turkey
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"No one should dictate what a woman may or may not wear, and no woman should be penalised for practising her faith" Portugal is among 11 European countries that ban Islamic veils
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Hasidic religious worker Yehonatan Ovadia is currently being held at Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City and is facing potential deportation to Israel for his pro-Palestinian views
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Amnesty International published a report, which found that UK universities actively worked together to stop students protesting Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza
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"A dynasty that commands Azerbaijan’s politics, wealth and institutions finds itself threatened by schoolgirls who refuse to uncover their hair"
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Shifting role of the US in the Middle East is like "raising a teenager", ambassador says
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Iran's military chief warns of stronger response to any new attack
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Hegseth confirms he visited Israel, spoke to Netanyahu
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