The United States has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles during four weeks of conflict with Iran, significantly depleting its precision-guided weapons stockpile, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing Pentagon officials. Launched from ships and submarines, Tomahawks – long central to US military operations since the Gulf War – have been heavily relied […]
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Israel vows no let-up in attacks despite US push to end Iran war
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz says Israel will “intensify” its attacks and target a broader range of sites in Iran as he accused Tehran of directing missiles at Israel’s civilian population. The remarks came after US-Israeli strikes targeted the Khondab Heavy Water Complex in central Iran, according to Iran’s Fars news agency. There were no […]
US Congressmen extended Basant invitation
Syed Kashf Ahmed, a civic-tech practitioner and Founder of Digital Development Lab, engaged with members of the United States Congress at the US Capitol during the US-Pakistan Symposium. During the interaction, he presented a Basant invitation from Lahore to Congressmen Tom Suozzi and Jack Bergman, Co-Chairs of the Congressional Pakistan Caucus, positioning Pakistan’s cultural heritage […]
Iran rebuffs US ceasefire plan, issues counterproposal as strikes rock ME
Iran on Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East and launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries, including an assault that sparked a huge fire at Kuwait International Airport. Iran’s defiance came as Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran and as the United States deployed paratroopers and more […]
US teen Lutkenhaus becomes youngest man to win title at world indoors
Cooper Lutkenhaus became the youngest athlete to win a men’s individual title at the World Indoor Championships when the American 17-year-old took gold in the 800 metres in Poland on Sunday. Lutkenhaus came home ahead of Belgium’s Eliott Crestan to win in a time of 1:44.24. The previous record for the youngest male champion was […]
Iran warns of retaliation targeting power plants
Dubai: Iran has warned that it will retaliation against any attack on its electricity sector by targeting power plants in Israel and facilities supplying electricity to US bases in the region, according to a statement issued by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday. Read More: Energy targets in crosshairs as Mideast war escalates The statement […]
Iran was not rebuilding nuclear enrichment, US intelligence finds
US intelligence concluded Wednesday that Iran was not rebuilding nuclear enrichment capacities destroyed last year by the United States and Israel, contradicting a key justification by President Donald Trump for his ongoing war. Tulsi Gabbard, a Trump ally who is director of national intelligence, offered mixed signals on the backdrop and outcomes of three weeks […]
‘No threat from Iran’: US counterterror official resigns to protest ME war
A senior US counter-terrorism official resigned on Tuesday to protest the US-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United States. “I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Joseph Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Centre, said in his resignation letter to President […]
US airline CEOs urge Congress to end standoff, pay airport security officers
The CEOs of major U.S. airlines urged Congress on Sunday to move quickly to end a 29-day partial government shutdown that has forced 50,000 airport security officers to work without pay, warning it could further disrupt U.S. air travel. Absences by Transportation Security Administration officers have already disrupted travel at some major airports over the […]
Iran to ‘continue attacking US bases until their closure’
Iran will avenge the blood of its martyrs, keep the Strait of Hormuz closed and attack US bases, new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday in a statement read out on state television, his first remarks since succeeding his father following his assassination. In the defiant address, Khamenei said the United States must […]