Iran supreme leader says Israel to pay for killing officials
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran’s new Supreme leader Mojtaba Khameini says Israel will pay after it assassinated three senior Iranian security officials in two days, the latest being Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib.
Qatar’s Ras Laffen LNG facility comes under attack by Iranian missiles, which cause “extensive damage”, according to QatarEnergy.
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(Al Jazeera Media Network) As Cuba faces a nationwide blackout and energy crisis, the first members of a global aid mission taking more than 20 tonnes of food, medical supplies and solar panel equipment arrived in Havana on Wednesday.
Organised by an alliance of progressive groups, Nuestra America Convoy to Cuba (NACC) is being pitched as an act of humanitarian support for the island nation and a protest against the United States’ total oil blockade on Cuba.
The...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, has been rocked by a series of explosions close to the United States embassy in the city’s heavily fortified Green Zone as the escalating US-Israeli war on Iran continued to spill over the border.
“We’ve had drone activity here in Baghdad’s Green Zone, where the US embassy is located … and we understand that two drones intercepted, while the third disappeared off radar,” said Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig, reporting...
(CNN) Donald Trump’s brief and aggressive attempt to corral an international coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz concluded in disappointment on Tuesday, leading the president to lash out at European nations that rejected his demands to help with his war against Iran.
“We don’t need too much help,” Trump said in the Oval Office, where he was hosting Ireland’s taoiseach for St. Patrick’s Day. “We don’t need any help actually.”
It was a striking turnabout for...
(CNN) Afghanistan accused Pakistan of targeting a hospital for drug users in the Afghan capital late Monday, saying the airstrike had killed at least 400 people. It marked a dramatic escalation of a conflict that began late last month and has seen repeated cross-border clashes as well as airstrikes inside Afghanistan. International calls for a ceasefire have gone unheeded.
Pakistan dismissed the accusation that it had hit a hospital, saying its strikes, which were also conducted in...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The Israeli military says its troops have launched ‘limited and targeted ground operations‘ in southern Lebanon as fighting against Hezbollah intensifies around the strategic southern town of Khiam.At least three air strikes struck the city of Khiam, Al Jazeera Arabic reported on Monday.
Khiam, a stronghold of Hezbollah, is strategically located and is seen as a gateway to southern Lebanon.
The latest war started after Hezbollah fired rockets in response to the killing...
(CNN) The US military said all six service members aboard a refueling aircraft were killed when it crashed Thursday in Iraq. The US said the incident was “not due to hostile fire,” but an Iranian proxy group claimed responsibility.
In other news:
Iran is considering allowing a limited number of oil tankersto pass through the Strait of Hormuz, provided that the cargo is traded in Chinese yuan, a senior Iranian official told CNN.
The Pentagon is deploying a Marine Expeditionary...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets of the capital Tehran for a protest in support of Palestinians, as the death toll from United States and Israeli attacks on the country continues to mount.
At least one person was killed after multiple explosions were heard around the al-Quds Day march on Friday, Iranian state television reported.
The cause of the blast in Tehran’s Ferdowsi Square was not immediately known, but it came shortly...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has laid out terms for ending the war with the United States and Israel in what analysts say is a possible sign of de-escalation from Tehran as the US-Israel war on Iran entered its 13th day on Thursday.
In a post on Wednesday on social site X, Pezeshkian said he had spoken to his counterparts in Russia and Pakistan, and that he had confirmed “Iran’s commitment to peace”.
“The...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A major cyberattack has crippled the global networks of Stryker, one of the world’s largest medical device companies, with an Iran-linked hacking group claiming responsibility and warning it marks “the beginning of a new chapter in cyber warfare”.
Handala, a hacking persona with documented ties to Tehran, said it carried out the attack in retaliation for the killing of more than 170 people, most of them schoolgirls, in a strike on a school...
