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Russia Today
2 days ago
- General
- Russia Today
Russian military strikes Ukrainian drone launch site (VIDEO)
Moscow has successfully hit a Ukrainian long-range drone launch site in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkov Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. It also published a video of the strike. The strike destroyed all of the launch pads, along with some 30 long-range kamikaze drones and eight military vehicles, it added. A short video shows a powerful blast rocking an area near the airfield where some installations were located. According to the ministry, a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile system was used in the strike. The news came amid reports of drone strikes across Russia. Several military airfields located in five Russian regions were targeted in attacks on Sunday, according to the Defense Ministry. The Ukrainian media claimed the strikes were part of a major operation called 'Spiderweb' that had been prepared for more than a year and a half. According to the Russian military, three out of five attacks were successfully repelled and resulted in no damage, while two more ended up setting aircraft on fire – although the flames were promptly extinguished. No one was injured in the attacks. Earlier in the day, the first drone attack was reported in Russia's Siberian Irkutsk Region, where unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) targeted a military base. The strike resulted in no casualties or major material damage, according to the authorities. It comes less than a day after two bridges collapsed in Russian regions bordering Ukraine in what the authorities described as deliberate acts of sabotage. One of the collapses derailed a passenger train, killing seven and injuring 71 others. The Investigative Committee said in a statement on Sunday that the bridges had been 'blown up' in both cases. Russian Senator Andrey Klishas has blamed Kiev for both incidents.
Washington Post
3 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
Who is Mohammed Sinwar, the Hamas military figure Israel says it killed?
An Israeli strike on the European Hospital complex in Gaza this month killed Mohammed Sinwar, the brother of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and the man believed by Israel to be the chief commander of the group's military wing, the Israeli military said Saturday. The May 13 bombardment of the hospital complex in southern Gaza was intended to kill Sinwar, two people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post that day. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.
Arab News
4 days ago
- General
- Arab News
Israel strikes western Syria, despite talks
DAMASCUS: Israel on Friday struck western Syria, the Israeli military and Syrian state media said, in the first such attack on the country in nearly a month. It came after Damascus announced earlier this month indirect talks with Israel to calm tensions, and the US called for a 'non-aggression agreement' between the two countries, which are technically at war. 'A strike from Israeli occupation aircraft targeted sites close to the village of Zama in the Jableh countryside south of Latakia,' state television said. The Israeli military shortly thereafter said it 'struck weapon storage facilities containing coastal missiles that posed a threat to international and Israeli maritime freedom of navigation, in the Latakia area of Syria.' 'In addition, components of surface-to-air missiles were struck in the area of Latakia,' it said, adding that it would 'continue to operate to maintain freedom of action in the region, in order to carry out its missions and will act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and its citizens.' The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights meanwhile reported that jets likely to be Israeli struck military sides on the outskirts of Tartus and Latakia. Syria and Israel have technically been at war since 1948. Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and has carried out hundreds of strikes and several incursions since the overthrow of Bashar Assad in December. Israel says its strikes aim to stop advanced weapons reaching Syria's new authorities, whom it considers jihadists.
Bloomberg
6 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trump Warned Netanyahu Iran Strike Would Be ‘Inappropriate'
US President Donald Trump said he warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against a military strike against Iran that could disrupt efforts to broker a deal on Tehran's nuclear program. 'I told him this would be inappropriate to do right now, because we're very close to a solution,' Trump told reporters Wednesday. 'Now that could change at any moment — could change with a phone call, but right now, I think they want to make a deal.'
The Herald
26-05-2025
- Politics
- The Herald
Israeli strike kills 20 in Gaza school housing displaced people, health authorities say
An Israeli strike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza killed at least 20 people and injured dozens, local authorities told Reuters early on Monday. Israel stepped up its military operations in the enclave in early May, saying it is seeking to eliminate Hamas' military and governing capabilities and bring back the remaining hostages who were seized in October 2023. Medics said the dozens of casualties in the strike on the school, in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City, included women and children. Some of the bodies were badly burnt according to images circulating on social media, which could not immediately be verified. The Israeli military said on Monday Israeli forces struck a Hamas control centre overnight on Sunday in Gaza, targeting a facility used to 'plan and gather intelligence to execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops'. Despite mounting international pressure that pushed Israel to lift a blockade on aid supplies in the face of warnings of looming famine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week Israel would control the whole of Gaza. Israel has taken control of about 77% of the enclave through its ground forces or evacuation orders and bombardments that keep residents away from their homes, Gaza's media office said. The Israeli campaign, triggered after Hamas Islamist militants attacked Israeli communities on October 7 2023, killing about 1,200 people, has devastated Gaza and pushed nearly all of its two-million residents from their homes. The offensive has killed more than 53,000 people, many of them civilians, according to Gaza health authorities. Reuters
