Tag: Syria

What would open warfare between Israel and Iran look like? How tit-for-tat retaliatory strikes could spiral into full-scale conflict involving Tehran’s shady proxy forces and both sides trading long-range missile attacks

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The outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas following the October 7 attacks rocked the already precarious security landscape in the Middle East and stoked fears that violence could spread throughout the region.

Now that prospect seems increasingly likely, with the Islamic Republic vowing revenge on what it calls the ‘evil Zionist regime’ after a suspected IDF strike on Iran’s consulate in Syria killed 13 people, including two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force generals. 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

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‘It was heaven nearly everywhere’: Veteran traveller shares his incredible photo album from a 1970s road trip in a Citroen 2CV through Syria, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan before the Taliban

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Syria, Iran and Afghanistan are considered high-risk for Westerners to visit today – but when one European travelled around them in the 1970s, he discovered ‘heaven nearly everywhere’.

Dutch native Frank van den Berge, 73, took incredible photographs of his time in these countries, showing Afghanistan before the Taliban, Iran in an era when people dressed in a ‘Western style’ and landmarks that have since vanished – such as the Buddhas of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban

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Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next? – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration. 

In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak all hit trouble amid intense domestic pressure to tackle immigration; all three emerged weakened

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Hezbollah leader says Israel-Hamas ‘battle’ has ‘extended to more than one front’ in first speech since October 7 – sparking fears the terror group is set to enter the conflict and spark wider war in the region

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Hezbollah’s leader has said the Israel-Hamas ‘battle’ has ‘extended to more than one front’ in his first speech since the October 7 attack, raising fears the Lebanese terror group is set to enter the conflict and spark a wider conflict in the region.

The powerful terror group’s chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah praised the Alaqsa Flood – a name used by Hamas for its vicious attack last month – and said the ‘glorious jihadi operation’ led to an ‘earthquake’ in the

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Hamas vows to repeat October 7 attacks and bring about the ‘annihilation’ of Israel while cynically saying it ‘did not want to hurt civilians’ as it slaughtered 1,400 people ‘but there were complications on the ground’

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A Hamas leader has issued a chilling warning that the terror group’s October 7 massacre will happen ‘again and again’ until Israel is ‘annihilated’ – vowing that the terrorists will pay any price to achieve their aims.

Ghazi Hamad, deputy foreign minister for Hamas, cynically told a broadcaster that the terrorists ‘did not want to harm civilians’ during their bloody rampage through southern Israel, which saw more than 1,400 Israelis murdered in cold blood.

He said the terror group had

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Fears of wider war grow as Kremlin says US strikes in Syria are a ‘very bad’ sign of ‘broader regional tensions’ and defends inviting Hamas delegation to Moscow after Israel described the decision as ‘deplorable’

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The Kremlin has spoken out about US airstrikes on two Iranian-controlled sites in eastern Syria saying it would further stoke rising tensions in the Middle East.    

The Pentagon deployed a pair of F-16 fighter jets overnight to attack a weapons storage facility and an ammunition plant near Abu Kamal – both of which were allegedly run by Iran‘s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The strikes were not connected to the Israel-Hamas war, the Pentagon said, but they came just hours

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UFO hunters say they’ve finally solved Pentagon’s ‘metallic orb’ sighting – which they tracked to war-torn Syria

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An eerie and tantalizingly shiny ‘metallic orb’ UFO, caught on tape by the US military in the Middle East, may have finally been identified. 

Footage of the object, hovering beneath an MQ-9 Reaper drone, was filmed on July 12, 2022 and played publicly for the first time before the US Senate’s Armed Services Committee last April.

But now data scientists with the controversial, but ostensibly independent ‘open-source’ investigation group Bellingcat say that they have ‘deflated’ widespread speculation that the object

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Israel shows new unedited bodycam footage of Hamas murders to prove the ‘magnitude of atrocities committed’ after claims of beheaded babies sparked ‘a Holocaust denial-like phenomenon’

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Israel has released a snippet of unedited footage taken from the bodycam of a Hamas gunman amid the ruthless October 7 attacks on unsuspecting civilians.

The clip showed how the gunman, brandishing his AK-47 assault rifle, ordered a pair of Israelis driving slowly along the road to stop their car. 

Without giving the driver a second to comply, the gunman immediately starts blasting bullets into the vehicle from mere feet away, and the passengers can be seen recoiling from the

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‘Day of jihad’ sees anti-Israel protests around the world after former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told Muslims to ‘take to the streets’

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Anti-Israel protests have been held in a ‘day of jihad’ across the world today after former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal demanded thousands of Muslims take to the streets to demonstrate amid the ongoing conflict. 

The demonstrations were staged after Friday prayers in Muslim communities around the world – including in Iraq,  Japan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – condemning Israel’s attacks on Gaza and showing support for Palestinians in the wake of the deadly surprise attack launched by Hamas terrorists in

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How Hamas-supporting medics are lurking within our NHS – including a doctor who mocked Israeli festival-goers who fled Palestinian gunmen

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Multiple British medics are excusing and even celebrating brutal attacks by Hamas terrorists in Israel, MailOnline can reveal today. 

Charities are demanding NHS medics who get caught spouting the ‘repugnant’ and ‘sickening’ comments be suspended immediately, saying such extreme views ‘fly in the face of the oaths that they have taken’.

Their calls come after this website exposed a string of abhorrent posts by one medic on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Dr Mennah Elwan mocked terrified festivalgoers fleeing Hamas

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