Washington: U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would not support any Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites in response to its ballistic missile attack and urged Israel to act “proportionally” against its regional arch-foe. Biden spoke a day after Iran fired more than 180 millies Israel, an operation he previously described as “ineffective.”…
Tel Aviv: The Israeli military said one of its soldiers was killed in combat operations in Lebanon on Wednesday, marking the first loss since its forces crossed the border to target Hezbollah. “Captain Eitan Itzhak Oster, aged 22… fell during combat in Lebanon,” the military said in a statement. A military website said Oster was…
Jerusalem: The United States said it was discussing a joint response after Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel, warning Tehran of “severe consequences”. Israel vowed it would make Iran “pay” after the attack late Tuesday, with most of the missiles intercepted, and pledged to immediately strike “the Middle East powerfully”. Tehran, in turn,…
Tel Aviv/Tehran: In a sharp escalation of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iranian-backed militias, Iran fired nearly 200 missiles into Israel on Tuesday. The attack comes after the U.S. issued warnings that an Iranian strike was imminent. Air raid sirens blared across Israel, prompting residents to seek shelter, but no immediate casualties were reported….
Washington: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his US counterpart Antony Blinken met in Washington DC and discussed working together to address regional and global challenges. Jaishankar — on his first visit to the US capital since the third Modi government took office — met Blinken on Tuesday at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the…
Lahore: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) late on Tuesday announced that it has stopped all its flights from using Iranian airspace following Iran’s missile attack on Israel. The PIA issued a direction to all captains and flight operations of the airline in this regard. “The plans of all flights are being restructured to avoid using Iranian…
Washington: China has violated border agreements, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday, noting that continued tension will cast a natural shadow over the rest of this relationship. “In terms of our own relationship with China, I think it’s a long story. But the short version is that we had agreements on how to…
Washington: Iran is preparing an imminent ballistic missile attack against Israel, the United States said on Tuesday, warning that any such assault would have “severe” consequences for Tehran. The warning came as Israel said it had launched a ’round offensive’ in Lebanon to target the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, whose leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an…
Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a fresh warning to Iran Monday, saying there was no place in the Middle East beyond Israel’s reach amid a flurry of strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon. In a video statement made in English, Netanyahu addressed the people of Iran and warned that their government was bringing them “closer…
Tel Aviv: The Israeli military said on Monday its forces killed at least two leaders of a left-wing Palestinian armed group, hours after the organisation said its members were hit in a strike in central Beirut. Israeli fighter jets “struck and eliminated the terrorist” Mohammad Abdel-Aal, head of the Lebanon branch of the Popular Front…
