The US and UK launched strikes on Houthi-controlled Hodeidah province in Yemen on Tuesday, as rights organizations and government officials accused the militia group of exploiting the Gaza conflict to recruit minors to their own cause.
Ukraine says Russian troops are being trained on the use of Iranian drones at the Shayrat airfield in Syria’s western province of Homs. At the same time, Syria has extended permission for the United Nations to deliver aid to opposition-held areas in the northwest of the country via two Turkish border crossings for another three months.
The drone strike apparently launched by Iran-backed militants that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan was the latest in a flurry of attacks and reprisals across the Middle East that are linked to the war in Gaza and threaten to ignite a wider conflict.
Established In: 1928
Established By: Hassan al-Banna
Also Known As: Society of the Muslim Brothers
Country Of Origin: Egypt
Leaders: Mohammed Badie
A new BBC investigation has found that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recruited former Al-Qaeda members to provide security in Yemen, and funded American mercenaries to carry out political assasinations in the country.
On February 13, 2024, Channel 1 [Iran] aired a report from an IRGC ballistic missile drill, which simulated an attack on Israel’s Palmachim airbase. The report showcased a combined attack from land and sea, in which ballistic missiles were launched against a model of Palmachim airbase, which was built in the Iranian desert. According to the report, Palmachim is Israel’s largest airbase, and it is the main base for its F-35 warplanes. The reporter said that “this is an illustration of what the IRGC can do […] if Iran’s territory is attacked.”
Former Iranian Nuclear Chief Ali-Akbar Salehi discussed in a February 11, 2024 interview that aired on Nasim TV (Iran) whether Iran is capable of producing a nuclear bomb. He said that Iran has crossed “all the scientific and technological nuclear thresholds” necessary to create a nuclear bomb.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Seyed Hassan Nasrallah held a meeting in Beirut on Saturday.
The top Iranian diplomat, who arrived in Beirut on Friday evening, held negotiations with Nasrallah on Saturday morning.
Israeli air strikes killed 28 Palestinians, including ten children, in Rafah early on 10 February, after the Israeli military intensified air raids ahead of a coming ground invasion.
The killings came hours after aid agencies warned that huge numbers of Palestinians will die if Israel moves forward with a planned large-scale military offensive on the southern Gaza border city, where some 1.3 million Palestinians are living, including hundreds of thousands in tent cities.
Al-Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah had a side job as a commander in Hamas’s anti-tank missile units until 2022, evidence retrieved by the IDF revealed, the IDF’s spokesperson for Arabic media, Avichay Adraee, announced on Sunday.