Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Microsoft caught Iran linked hackers targeting Israel and Lebanon

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Microsoft has suspended in excess of 20 OneDrive applications made by the POLONIUM bunch. The gathering was working in a joint effort with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security. Polonium targeted north of 20 associations inside Israel and one intergovernmental association in Lebanon. Microsoft has reported that it distinguished and handicapped cyberattacks throughout the course … Read more

Israel prefers diplomacy on Iran but could act alone

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Israel reiterates a long-standing veiled threat to launch a preemptive war. Follows calls by Western powers to rebuke Tehran for failing to answer questions on uranium traces at undeclared sites. Israeli PM Naftali Bennett: Israel could take independent action against Iran. On Friday, Israel told the U.N. nuclear watchdog it would prefer a diplomatic resolution … Read more

Iran warns of ‘immediate’ response to ‘political’ action by IAEA

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Talks on reviving the pact have been deadlocked since March. That agreement gave Iran relief from crippling economic sanctions in exchange. Iran and the IAEA had previously said that resolving the issue is necessary. Iran will respond immediately to any “political” action by the West at the International Atomic Energy Agency meeting next week, Tehran’s … Read more

Israeli soldiers shot one Palestinian in West Bank

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Ayman Muheisen, 29, died in a Palestinian hospital after being shot by Israeli soldiers. He was killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the Al-Dheisheh refugee camp. The Israeli army has made no immediate response to the event. A Palestinian man was killed on Thursday during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the Al-Dheisheh refugee camp, … Read more

Israeli military conducted long-range air strike drills over Mediterranean

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The Israeli military said Wednesday that dozens of its aircraft conducted a drill simulating airstrikes on long-range targets, a thinly veiled reference to a possible attack on regional rival Iran. The army said the exercise took place a day earlier over the Mediterranean and “involved long-range flight, aerial refueling and striking distant targets.” It provided … Read more

Israeli military practice long-range air strikes

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The Israeli military claimed Wednesday that dozens of its aircraft practiced long-range attacks, a thinly veiled hint at a prospective attack on regional competitor Iran. The exercise, which took place a day earlier over the Mediterranean, “involved long-range flight, aerial refuelling and striking distant targets,” according to the army. It did not disclose any other information. … Read more

Palestinian woman shot dead by Israeli soldier

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Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the southern West Bank after she approached a soldier with a knife, according to the army, with Palestinian officials declaring her dead. According to an army statement, the “attempted stabbing” occurred at Al Aroub camp, north of Hebron. Read more: Palestinian president asks ‘US has to … Read more

Israel’s rapprochment with Arab states

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Israel signed its first-ever free trade agreement with an Arab country United Arab Emirates on Tuesday. The agreement is the latest step in a US-brokered effort to normalise relations between Israel and the Arab world, which has pushed to isolate Israel for decades over its occupation of Palestinian land. The UAE was the first Gulf … Read more

Israel and Saudi Arabia are getting closer to their first public agreement

According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israel and Saudi Arabia are edging closer to their first public accord as Israel evaluates a Saudi request to change the international status of the two Red Sea Islands. The news comes as suspicion grows that Jerusalem and Riyadh are about to take small measures toward normalising relations. The deal … Read more

Israel should consider ‘terror’ tag for Jewish extremists: minister

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Defence Minister Benny Gantz said Monday that Israel should consider adding two right-wing extremist groups accused of violence against Palestinians and calling for the death of Arabs to its terrorist list. “I believe it is time to examine defining groups like La Familia and Lehava as terror groups, and I know the issue is being … Read more

Israel warns against travel Turkey

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Israel issued a travel warning to its people on Monday, citing Iranian threats of retaliation for the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel last week. Tehran has accused Israel of being responsible for the death of Hassan Sayad Khodai, who was killed while driving his car by two motorbike riders, and has threatened reprisal. Read … Read more

Israeli PM says Iranian protection is no more

Israeli PM Naftali Bennett to make historic visit to UAE

Israeli PM says Iranian protection is no more Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday Iran wouldn’t be tolerated for prompting assaults through its intermediaries, talking seven days after the death in Tehran of a Revolutionary Guards colonel that has been accused of Israel. Hassan Sayad Khodai, blamed by Israel for plotting assaults against … Read more

Govt ‘to recognise Israel’, Imran Khan tells Charsadda workers’ convention

CHARSADDA: PTI Chairman Imran Khan slammed the present coalition government on Sunday, claiming that it was planning to recognise Israel. The former prime minister made the remark in reaction to Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s comments, in which he confirmed meeting with a Pakistani-American group and described the meeting as “wonderful.” “No official or semi-official delegation … Read more

‘Amazing experience’: Israel’s president on meeting delegation of Pakistani expats

DAVOS: Israel President Isaac Herzog described his meeting with a delegation of Pakistani expats in the United States as a “wonderful experience.” The Israeli president was speaking on the Abraham Accords, a US-backed pact that normalised Israel’s relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on … Read more

Clashes at Al-Aqsa mosque before contested Israeli flag march

JERUSALEM: On Sunday, hundreds of Jews visited the holy compound ahead of a disputed Jewish nationalist march through the Old City, while Israeli police clashed with Palestinians holed up inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque. The annual Jerusalem march commemorates Israel’s 1967 Middle East war victory over Egypt and draws thousands of cheering, chanting participants to the … Read more

Israeli flag march incites tensions in Jerusalem

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Israeli flag march incites tensions in Jerusalem Large number of Israeli Jews holding a walk through Muslim regions in Jerusalem’s Old City in the midst of Palestinian alerts it could set off savagery. The yearly occasion comes all at once of especially high pressures following a long time of dangerous episodes. The Flag March happens … Read more

15-year-old Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in West Bank

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According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Israeli troops shot and killed a teenager during an operation in a community near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Friday. Zaid Ghunaim, 15, was named as the killed kid by the ministry. According to the report, he was shot in the neck and back by Israeli soldiers, … Read more

Iran says one dead in defense research unit ‘accident’

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Iran said Thursday an engineer was killed in an “accident” at a defense research unit in an area near Tehran that hosts a military complex previously scrutinized by the UN nuclear watchdog. The incident late Wednesday came days after a colonel in the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of Iran’s military, was shot dead near … Read more

Israel tells US it was behind killing of Iranian colonel: NYT

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Israel has told the United States it was responsible for the killing of an Iranian Revolutionary Guards colonel last week, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Colonel Sayyad Khodai was shot dead on Sunday by a gunman on the back of a motorcycle as he sat in a car outside his home in Tehran. Iran’s … Read more

Israel army: ‘no suspicion’ of crime in journalist shooting

If an Israeli soldier fired the shot that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the army stated Monday that the soldier did not appear to be guilty of criminal misbehavior. “Given that Ms Abu Akleh was killed in the midst of an active combat zone, there can be no immediate suspicion of criminal activity … Read more

Israeli court sentenced Palestinian prisoners to five years in prison

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Six Palestinian convicts were sentenced to five years in jail on Sunday by an Israeli court for burrowing out of their cell last year and escaping from a high-security facility in the largest prison escape in decades. The prisonbreak triggered a large manhunt throughout the country’s north and the occupied West Bank to find the … Read more

Hamas warns against ‘flag march’ in east Jerusalem

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Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, warned Sunday against a planned march by Jewish nationalists through Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, saying the Palestinian Islamist group would use “all possible means” to oppose it. The contentious “flag march” is set to take place next week to commemorate Jerusalem Day, which marks the city’s reunification after Israel annexed … Read more

6 Palestinians sentenced to extra 5 years for jail break

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Six Palestinians were sentenced to an additional five years in prison on Sunday for escaping from a prison in northern Israel through a tunnel in 2021, according to Israeli media. The six, already serving life terms for anti-Israeli attacks, escaped on September 6 last year from Gilbao prison through a tunnel dug under a sink. … Read more

Defence demands retrial for Swedish-Iranian threatened with execution

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Lawyers for Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmedreza Djalali, who is accused of espionage and faces execution in Iran, have requested a retrial, his attorney Helaleh Moussavian told AFP on Sunday. Djalali was scheduled to be hanged on Saturday, but according to his wife, the execution did not take place. Human rights organizations and the Swedish government have … Read more

Israeli missile strikes kill 3 near Syria capital

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Israeli surface-to-surface missiles killed three people near the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday, state media said quoting a military source. “The Israeli enemy carried out an aggression… that led to the death of three martyrs and some material losses,” Syria’s official news agency SANA quoted the source as saying. The missiles came from the Israeli-occupied … Read more

Israel reports monkeypox case as virus spreads to Middle East

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On Saturday, Israel became the latest European and North American country to report a case of monkeypox, a disease common to areas of Africa. A spokesman for Tel Aviv’s Ichilov hospital told AFP that a 30-year-old man, who recently returned from western Europe with monkeypox symptoms, had tested positive for the virus. On Friday, the … Read more

Israeli missile strikes kill 3 near Syria capital: state media

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According to state media, Israeli surface-to-surface missiles killed three civilians near Damascus on Friday, citing a military source. “The Israeli enemy carried out an aggression… that led to the death of three martyrs and some material losses,” Syria’s official news agency SANA quoted the source as saying. The missiles came from the Israeli-occupied Golan heights … Read more

Palestinian teen was killed in an Israeli raid

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Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian teenager during an army operation in Jenin, West Bank, on Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry said. “A 17-year-old boy was killed and an 18-year-old was critically wounded by the Israeli occupation’s bullets during its aggression on Jenin,” the ministry stated in a statement. The adolescent was named Amjad … Read more