Posts Tagged ‘global-impact events’
Israeli Bombs Target Gaza’s Crowded Rafah As The Us Warns Israel Against Sending Troops There
Israel bombed targets in overcrowded Rafah early Friday, hours after Biden administration officials and aid agencies warned Israel against expanding its Gaza ground offensive to the southern city where more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge. Airstrikes overnight and into Friday hit two residential buildings in Rafah, while two other…
Read MoreUs Calls For Investigation Into Alleged Civilian Killings In Ethiopia’s Amhara Region
The U.S. is calling for an investigation into an alleged massacre of civilians in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where a local rights group says more than 80 people were killed last week following clashes between soldiers and armed groups. The U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, Ervin Massinga, said Friday that the “U.S. government is deeply concerned” by…
Read MoreIndian Town Sets A Curfew And Orders Police To Shoot Violators After Deadly Clashes Over A Mosque
Authorities in a northern Indian town imposed an indefinite curfew and ordered police to shoot violators after clashes over the construction of a Muslim seminary and a mosque left at least five people dead and more than 150 injured, officials said Friday. The violence Thursday also led authorities to shut down internet services and schools…
Read MoreJustice Department Announces Terrorism and Sanctions-Evasion Charges and Seizures Linked to Illicit, Billion-Dollar Global Oil Trafficking Network That Finances Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Its Malign Activities
The Justice Department today announced the unsealing of three federal cases, across two U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, as the most recent in a series of efforts to combat the illicit trafficking of Iranian oil that funds Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), and its Qods Force (IRGC-QF), Iran’s primary mechanism…
Read MoreGunmen Take Hostages At Us Company’s Turkish Factory In Apparent Protest Of Gaza War
Two gunmen took seven hostages at a factory owned by U.S. company Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey on Thursday, according to media reports, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Turkish media published an image of one of the purported suspects inside the factory, a man wearing what appeared to be a…
Read MoreU.K. Citizen Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison For Attempt to Procure High-Powered Microwave System for Iran
Saber Fakih, 48, of the United Kingdom, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations that posed a significant risk to U.S. national security. The announcement was issued by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves; Assistant Attorney General Matthew G.…
Read MoreWhite House blames Islamic Resistance in Iraq for drone attack that killed 3 US troops
The White House on Wednesday said it believes the Islamic Resistance in Iraq was responsible for a deadly drone attack in Jordan that killed three American service members. “We believe the attack in Jordan was planned, resourced and facilitated by an umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which contains multiple groups, including Kata’ib…
Read MoreJustice Dept indicts 3 in international murder-for-hire plot targeting Iranian dissident living in Maryland
Three men stand accused of devising a murder-for-hire plot in the U.S. against an Iranian dissident and a woman with whom the dissident fled, according to a recently unsealed federal indictment. Justice Department prosecutors alleged Naji Sharifi Zindashti, working from Iran, orchestrated the international scheme over two years, from 2020 to 2021. They said in…
Read MoreThree US troops killed in Jordan drone strike linked to Iran
Three U.S. service members were killed and at least 34 wounded in a drone attack by Iran-backed militants on U.S. troops in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden and U.S. officials said on Sunday. It is the first deadly strike against U.S. forces since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October, and marks…
Read MoreTurkey’s parliament approves Sweden’s NATO membership, lifting a key hurdle
Turkish legislators on Tuesday endorsed Sweden’s membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country’s entry into the military alliance. Lawmakers ratified Sweden’s accession protocol 287 to 55, with ruling party members saying the Nordic country’s tougher stance on Kurdish militants was key to winning approval. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also previously…
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