The IDF says it has begun “limited and targeted” moves against Hezbollah strongholds in order to protect residents of northern Israel The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that its troops launched a ground offensive against Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon on Monday. The operations are said to be aimed at increasing security for residents of northern Israel. In a statement on X, the IDF explained that the “limited and targeted ground operations against key Hezbollah strongholds” are “part of broader defensive efforts to establish and strengthen a forward defensive posture, which includes the dismantling of terrorist infrastructure and the elimination of terrorists operating in the area.” The Israeli military noted that prior to the entry of its ground troops into the area, it carried out artillery and airstrikes against “numerous terrorist targets in order to mitigate threats in the operational environment.” Israel has launched numerous airstrikes on Leb...
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The Ukrainian leader will “never” reopen the Druzhba pipeline, the Slovak prime minister has said Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky will never restore oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline, which serves as the key artery for delivering Russian oil to Slovakia and Hungary, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said. He has rebuked the EU for its reluctance to exert sufficient pressure on Kiev to unlock oil supplies despite having ample opportunity to do so. Ukraine shut down the key Soviet-era pipeline in late January, claiming the halt was due to damage by a Russian drone strike. Moscow, however, has denied targeting it, with Bratislava and Budapest also rejecting Kiev’s account and insisting it was part of a Ukrainian blackmail campaign. In a video address on Sunday, Fico said that he had spoken with Zelensky about the situation, describing the call as “very strange.” “Zelensky will never put oil through the Druzhba pipeline, never,” he said. Read more Kiev bankrolling Hungar...
The US president has accused outlets of spreading AI-generated propaganda allegedly fabricated by Tehran US President Donald Trump has threatened media organizations with treason charges, accusing them of knowingly colluding with Iran to cast doubt on Washington’s decisive “victory.” In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump alleged that “fake news” outlets had been spreading false information supposedly fabricated by Iran using artificial intelligence. “The fact is, Iran is being decimated, and the only battles they ‘win’ are those that they create through AI, and are distributed by Corrupt Media Outlets,” Trump wrote. Trump claimed that Tehran has circulated fabricated footage showing attacks on US military assets, including alleged strikes on refueling aircraft and naval vessels. Read more Securing Strait of Hormuz should be ‘a team effort’ – Trump According to the president, some of the images depict non-existent “kamikaze boats” and the USS Abraham Lincoln aircr...
Russian athletes have won 12 times in total – eight gold, one silver and three bronze –moving the team into fourth place in the medal standings Russian cross-country skier Anastasia Bagiyan has won gold in the 20 km individual start race for visually impaired athletes at the 2026 Winter Paralympics, becoming a three-time champion at the Games in Italy. The 24-year-old earlier won the sprint and the 10 km classical race. This year’s Games are the first Paralympics in which Russian athletes have been allowed to compete under their national flag after years of international bans and restrictions. Earlier in the day, Russian cross-country skier Vera Voronchikhina won gold in a women’s cross-country race at the 2026 Winter Paralympics. Read more Russian skier wins fifth gold at Paralympics Russian cross-country skier Ivan Golubkov also won gold in the 20 km individual start race, finishing in 51 minutes 55 seconds. The 30-year-old six-time world champion had earlier taken first pl...
If Tehran is crushed, the Middle East will go from a tense equilibrium to a violent detonation, and Ankara may very well be the next target The position of Türkiye on the Israeli-American military campaign against Iran is unmistakably clear, and in recent weeks it has grown even more resolute. Ankara does not regard what is unfolding as a localized exchange of strikes, nor as merely another episode in the long history of Middle Eastern confrontation. It sees it as a step toward a full-scale regional catastrophe, the consequences of which could affect every state from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. In the Turkish view, strikes on Iran are not an instrument of regional pacification, but a mechanism for further destabilization and explosion. That is precisely why President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and representatives of the presidential administration have issued statement after statement marked by co...
The US president has demanded that China, Japan, and other nations deploy naval units to the vital route to protect maritime traffic from Iranian strikes Countries that receive oil through the Strait of Hormuz “must take care” of securing it, US President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social late on Saturday, adding that Washington “will help – A LOT!” The US and Israel began coordinated strikes on the Islamic Republic in late February, triggering Iranian retaliatory attacks across the region. The escalating crisis has effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which carries about one-fifth of the world’s daily oil and gas supply, after Tehran barred vessels from countries it considers hostile, sending global crude prices up nearly 50% to about $120 a barrel. In an earlier post the same day, Donald Trump said he hoped “China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK and others affected by this artificial constraint will send ships to the area.” “In the meantime, the United State...