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Washington Approves Arms Sales Exceeding $8 Billion to Allies in the Middle East
SadaNews - The U.S. State Department announced late Friday - Saturday that it has approved military sales totaling over $8.6 billion to Middle Eastern allies including Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE.
This announcement comes nine weeks after the war began between the United States and Israel agai...
US Air Force Plans to Purchase 5 Additional Boeing E-7A Aircraft
SadaNews - US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told a House subcommittee that the US Air Force plans to purchase five additional reconnaissance aircraft of the "Boeing E-7A Wedgetail" model, in addition to two prototypes that have already been contracted.
Concerns arose about the future of early w...
Two Young Men Killed in Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Belgorod
SadaNews - A Ukrainian drone attack has resulted in the deaths of two young men riding a motorcycle in the Russian Belgorod region, which lies on the border with Ukraine, as announced by its governor Vyacheslav Gladkov early Friday.
Gladkov wrote on Telegram, "In the village of Volchya Aleksandrovk...
UN Security Council Votes to Reduce Peacekeeping Force in South Sudan
SadaNews - The United Nations Security Council voted late Thursday in favor of reducing the maximum cap for the peacekeeping force in the conflict-torn South Sudan from 17,000 to 12,000 soldiers, with a mandate to prevent a return to civil war in the world's newest nation.
The vote on the resolutio...
Bezeshkian: The Maritime Siege on Iran is Destined to Fail
SadaNews - Iranian President Masoud Bezeshkian held the United States and Israel responsible for any security deterioration in the Gulf region, asserting that the region's security must be managed by its countries without external interventions.
Bezeshkian stated that the Gulf is not a place for imp...
The World's Largest Aircraft Carrier Leaves the Middle East
SadaNews: The world's largest aircraft carrier, "USS Gerald R. Ford," is returning to the United States in the coming days after a record deployment lasting more than 300 days, which included participating in the war against Iran and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Two U.S. offi...
Execution of 21 people and 4,000 detainees in Iran since the beginning of the US-Israeli w...
SadaNews - 21 people have been executed and over 4,000 have been detained in Iran for political or national security reasons since the beginning of the US-Israeli war, according to a statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday.
The UN agency stated that since the...
Poll: 53% of Americans Criticize U.S. Foreign Policy
SadaNews - A survey conducted by the "Pew Research Center" in the United States showed that 53% of Americans believe their country's foreign policy does not take into account the interests of other countries when making decisions, marking the highest recorded percentage for this indicator.
The surv...
Human Rights Watch: Israel Funds War Crimes in the Golan
SadaNews - The international organization "Human Rights Watch" confirmed that the decision made by the Israeli cabinet regarding the relocation of thousands of Israeli civilians to the occupied Syrian Golan is a clear declaration of intent to commit war crimes, noting that the occupying government a...
What does Trump want and what does Iran reject in any potential negotiations?
SadaNews - There seems to be a wide disagreement over the issues that should be discussed in the potential U.S.-Iran negotiations, as Washington insists on resolving the nuclear issue in Tehran while the latter seeks to postpone this issue until after the official end of the war.
U.S. President Don...
Airstrikes on Towns in Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah Responds with Explosive Drones
SadaNews - The pace of Israeli military escalation in southern Lebanon continues, amid an increasing threat to the continuation of the fragile truce announced through U.S. President Donald Trump, as strikes are exchanged between Israel and Hezbollah.
The Israeli Air Force has intensified its airstr...
"Army of Thieves".. Israel Between Plunder and the Collapse of Military Discipline
SadaNews - Haaretz's article did not wait for the Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir's speech to describe the crisis of the Israeli army. Ofer Shelach and Adi Shafran Gitlman went straight to the heart of the matter, which is that an army that loses discipline and values does not become a more ferocious forc...