There are some technical holes in the Pentagon’s official “friendly fire” story The US military wants you to believe that its worst day of air combat losses since the Vietnam War was the result of a “friendly fire” mishap. But do some digging and that story begins to look far-fetched. Three US F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait on Monday morning in what US Central Command (CENTCOM) called “an apparent friendly fire incident.” All six crew members – two per plane – ejected safely and suffered no serious injuries. The incident made Monday the joint worst day of losses for the US Air Force since the Vietnam War. Only once in the five decades since Vietnam has the USAF lost three fighter jets in a single day: when two F-16s and an F-15 were shot down over Iraq on the second day of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. CENTCOM claimed that the F-15s “were mistakenly shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses.” While this story may well be true, some inconvenient ...
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The two officials are reportedly engaged in a tacit turf war while failing to coordinate a response to the Middle East escalation The US-Israeli strikes on Iran have exposed a deepening rift at the top of the EU, as Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the bloc’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, find themselves on a “collision course” in a backroom power struggle, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing sources. Despite a flurry of EU diplomatic activity and public statements after Israel and the US launched a wave of strikes on Iran on Saturday, von der Leyen and Kallas did not speak to each other directly over the weekend, an unnamed official told Politico. Publicly, Kallas published a solo statement on seeking diplomatic solutions to the conflict half an hour before von der Leyen issued a call for “maximum restraint.” Read more ‘Please respect office hours’: EU’s von der Leyen ridiculed over response to Iran crisis “The only way the EU can have relevance in this crisis is ...
The Iranian supreme leader was killed on Saturday while he was “having breakfast,” US President Donald Trump has said Israeli intelligence hacked nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras to prepare the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Financial Times has reported, citing sources. The US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, killing Khamenei and other senior officials. The cameras in the Iranian capital had been hacked for years, with feeds encrypted and transmitted to Israel, the outlet wrote on Monday. One camera, installed on the street where Khamenei’s compound was located, provided an angle allowing analysts to track the vehicles and routines of security personnel. The data was reportedly processed to build what spies call a “pattern of life” of officials and their guards. Israel also disrupted components of mobile phone towers near the compound to block potential warnings, according to the FT. Read more Iran accuses US of fighting ‘on beha...
RT breaks down public and Capitol Hill reactions to the new Middle East war, launched days before election season US President Donald Trump’s order to attack Iran has drawn mixed reactions among Americans, with polls showing a clear public split and statements from lawmakers exposing divisions within both the Republican and Democratic parties. Trump claimed the joint US-Israeli military campaign , launched on Saturday and dubbed ‘Operation Epic Fury’, was necessary to dismantle Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Tehran insisted the strikes were entirely unprovoked and has retaliated with missiles and drones targeting Israel and US bases across the Middle East. Analysts note the campaign, launched mere days before primary contests begin for the November midterm general elections in the US, has the lowest starting support in modern American history. RT breaks down the numbers. How has the US general public reacted? Opinion polls showed growing public discontent with the ...
The State Department has urged US citizens to leave over a dozen countries immediately amid escalating Iranian retaliatory strikes The US State Department has issued an urgent warning for American citizens to immediately leave over a dozen countries across the Middle East, citing “serious safety risks” as Iran’s retaliatory strikes against US and Israeli targets continue to escalate. In a post on X on Tuesday, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar stated Washington “urges Americans to DEPART NOW from the countries below using available commercial transportation, due to serious safety risks.” The warning covers Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Americans requiring assistance with commercial departures have been directed to call the State Department’s 24-hour hotline and enroll in the STEP program for security updates. The advisory comes as I...
The Pentagon has “virtually unlimited” ammo stockpiles, the president has asserted The US is prepared to fight a war “forever” with its “virtually unlimited” ammunition stockpiles, President Donald Trump has claimed. Military observers have identified munitions availability – particularly air defense missiles – as a limiting factor in the ongoing US-Israeli campaign aimed at toppling the Iranian government. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump dismissed such concerns. “Wars can be fought ‘forever,’ and very successfully, using just these supplies (which are better than other countries finest arms!),” he wrote. The president suggested weapons stored in other nations could be reallocated for Pentagon use. The US-Israeli attack began on Saturday with a decapitation strike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials, accompanied by calls for an Iranian uprising. Trump said the campaign is exceeding expectations and predicted it would last...