- Israel: Second soldier killed in Gaza explosive attack in two days
June 17, 2025
The IDF confirmed Tuesday morning that Staff Sgt. Naveh Leshem, 20, from Nokdim, was killed Monday in Khan Younis, Gaza, in what appears to have been an improvised explosive device (IED) attack by Hamas terrorists. Leshem served in the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion. According to initial reports, the explosive was attached to a Namer armored personnel ...
- Israel-Iran Attacks Span Fourth Day With No Deal in Sight
June 16, 2025
Hostilities between Israel and Iran entered a fourth day on Monday with no sign of easing, stoking fears of a wider war in the oil-rich region. Iran fired several waves of drones and missiles over the last 24 hours, while Israel continued hitting the Islamic Republic’s capital, Tehran, killing one more senior military official. Since Friday, ...
- Israeli Commandos Attacked Iranian Air Defenses With Drones From Inside The Country
June 13, 2025
Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, which aims to neuter Iran’s nuclear and long-range weapons capabilities, began with an overnight attack on a wide array of targets. These strikes included the use of drones and missiles launched by operatives from deep within Iran. This is the conclusion of a report from Israeli outlet N12, which cites an unnamed ...
- IAEA Director General Grossi Statement to UNSC on Situation in Iran
June 13, 2025
Early this morning, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was informed of the military operation launched by Israel which includes attacks on nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. As I reported this morning to the IAEA Board of Governors, we have been in permanent contact with the Iran Nuclear Regulatory Authority, to ascertain the ...
- Iran launches waves of missiles at Israel in response to attacks
June 13, 2025
Iran says it has launched waves of ballistic missiles towards Israel in retaliation for a major deadly attack on Tehran’s nuclear sites and military leaders. Explosions were heard over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as sirens sounded across Israel on Friday night. This follows an unprecedented attack by Israel in the early hours of Friday, which targeted ...
- Israel attack targets Iran nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders
June 13, 2025
Israel launched widescale strikes against Iran on Friday, saying it targeted nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders during the start of a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon. Iran had launched about 100 drones towards Israeli territory in retaliation, which Israel is working to intercept, Israeli military spokesman Brigadier General ...
- U.S. evacuating personnel from the Middle East amid growing tensions with Iran
June 11, 2025
The U.S. is evacuating nonessential staff from its Baghdad embassy and family members of military personnel from several bases in the Gulf amid growing concerns about the security situation, per two State Department and Pentagon officials. The unusual steps are taking place ahead of a crucial round of nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran and ...
- Israel: Four soldiers killed in action in the Gaza Strip
June 6, 2025
The names of two fallen soldiers whose families have been notified were cleared for publication: Sergeant Major Chen Gross, aged 33, from Gan Yoshiya, a reserve soldier in the Maglan Unit, Commando Brigade, fell during combat in the southern Gaza Strip. Staff Sergeant Yoav Raver, aged 19, from Sde Warburg, a soldier in the Yahalom Unit, ...
- Strengthening Security Through Training: NATO C-IED Mobile Training Team in Kuwait
June 4, 2025
From 1 to 4 June 2025, the NATO Istanbul Cooperation Initiative Regional Centre (NIRC) in Kuwait City hosted a Mobile Training Team (MTT) from Allied Joint Force Command Naples. The mission: deliver NATO expertise on Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices (C-IED) to military personnel from Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. The course combined theoretical modules with practical, ...
- Israel: Three soldiers killed, two injured in a minefield explosion in Gaza
June 3, 2025
Three Israeli soldiers from the Givati Brigade were killed Monday in a deadly minefield explosion during an IDF ground operation in Jabaliya, northern Gaza. The soldiers were identified as Sergeant Lior Steinberg, 20, from Petah Tikva; Sergeant Ofek Barhana, 20, from Yavne; and Sergeant Omer van Gelder, 22, from Maale Adumim. The explosion occurred as a ...
- US gives nod to Syria to bring foreign jihadist ex-rebels into army
June 2, 2025
The United States has given its blessing to a plan by Syria’s new leadership to incorporate thousands of foreign jihadist former rebel fighters into the national army, provided that it does so transparently, President Donald Trump’s envoy said. Three Syrian defence officials said that under the plan, some 3,500 foreign fighters, mainly Uyghurs from China and ...
- Israel: Terrorists moving explosives in Gaza eliminated
June 1, 2025
The IDF announced that troops of the 7th Brigade, under the command of the 98th Division currently operating in the Khan Yunis area as part of Operation Gideon’s Chariots, eliminated dozens of terrorists and dismantled approximately 100 terrorist infrastructure targets in joint operations involving the brigade’s fire coordination unit, the Israeli Air Force, and the ...
- Israel: Top Hamas military chief Mohammed Sinwar eliminated in airstrike
May 31, 2025
It can now be confirmed that during a joint IDF and ISA operation on May 13th, 2025, in the area of Khan Yunis, the Israeli Air Force struck and eliminated the terrorist Mohammed Sinwar, Head of the Hamas terror organization’s military wing. In that strike, the terrorists Mohammad Shabaneh, commander of Hamas’ Rafah Brigade, and Mahdi ...
- ISIS Claims First Attack on Syria’s New Government Forces since Assad’s Fall
May 30, 2025
The so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for its first attack targeting Syria’s new government forces since the oust of Bashar al-Assad, marking a significant development in the militant group’s resurgence efforts, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). According to SOHR the ISIS statement published Thursday, claimed it detonated an improvised explosive ...
- Syria: War remnants kill, injure 13 people in one day in areas controlled by Damascus government
May 29, 2025
Unexploded ordnance continues to threaten the lives of civilians in areas controlled by the Damascus government, especially in areas that witnessed previous fighting. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that yesterday, Wednesday, four people, including two children, were killed and nine children were injured in several separate incidents caused by the explosion of mines and ...
- Chinese peacekeepers start demining in second UNIFIL base
May 26, 2025
UNIFIL deminers from China started work in a second UNIFIL position this week to clear the base and its perimeter of unexploded ordnances (UXOs) and other explosives from the recent hostilities. The operation is taking place at UN Position 6-50, located along the Blue Line southwest of the village of Yaroun, and is expected to continue ...
- Syria: SDF foils ISIS attack in Deir ez-Zor governorate
May 26, 2025
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Monday that it thwarted an attack from the Islamic State (ISIS) in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province, which injured a civilian, amid a spate of militant attacks in the area. “Yesterday, our forces foiled a terrorist attack carried out by an ISIS cell on one of our ...
- France takes command of NATO Mission Iraq
May 22, 2025
On Thursday 22 May, Major General Christophe Hintzy from France assumed command of NATO Mission Iraq, at a change of command ceremony in Baghdad. He succeeds Lieutenant General Lucas Schreurs from the Netherlands, who had been in post since May 2024. The ceremony was attended by Iraqi officials, Ambassadors from Allied and partner countries, NATO ...
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