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Iranian and Pakistani leaders vowed to strengthen economic and security cooperation in a meeting on Monday, as the two countries seek to smooth over a diplomatic rift. Their meeting was part of efforts by Islamabad and Tehran to mend ties which had been briefly strained in January when each carried out strikes in the other’s territory, targeting militants accused of …

The head of Israel’s military intelligence directorate has resigned, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday. Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva announced his resignation after he failed to prevent Hamas’ unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history, the military said. “The intelligence directorate under my command did not live up to the task we were entrusted with. …

The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah is claiming to have shot down an Israeli drone that was on a combat mission, a report says. Hezbollah said in a statement that the drone, which was “waging its attacks on our steadfast people,” was brought down in the Al Aishiyeh area of southern Lebanon near the country’s border with Israel, according to Reuters. …

Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants in his best-selling 1993 memoir “Den of Lions,” died on Sunday at his …

Iran’s top foreign affairs official dismissed weapons launched against the country by neighboring Israel as “toys” and said there was no plan to retaliate. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian downplayed the Israeli strike during an interview on Friday, hours after the impact. “What happened last night wasn’t a strike,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told NBC News. “They were more like …

FIRST ON FOX – House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., accused Columbia University President Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik of attempting to “cover-up” for a “pro-terrorist” professor who had celebrated the Oct. 7 attacks, during her congressional testimony this week. “A reminder to President Shafik that knowingly misleading Congress is a felony,” Stefanik warned in a statement shared first …

Reasonable people can disagree about whether Asna Tabassum, who has expressed the view that the state of Israel should be destroyed, ought to be the University of Southern California’s duly appointed commencement speaker. There are prominent conservative voices such as Mary Katharine Ham, David Harsanyi, and Guy Benson, firm supporters of the Jewish state of Israel all, who say let …

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The United Nations’ refugee agency said Friday that Cypriot efforts at sea to stop numerous Syrian refugee-laden boats departing Lebanon from reaching the European Union-member island nation mustn’t contravene international human rights laws or put passengers at risk. Cypriot authorities have reportedly dispatched police patrol vessels just outside Lebanese territorial waters to thwart boat loads of …

On the evening of April 17, following his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron confirmed in an interview with the BBC that “It is clear that the Israelis are making a decision to act.”After four days of tense deliberations within the Israeli cabinet since the April 13 direct attack by the Islamic regime of …

Iranian nuclear sites are “fully safe” and have not been impacted by Israeli strikes, the country’s regime says. Israel carried out limited strikes on areas of Iran early Friday in retaliation for Tehran firing a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel last Saturday. The region surrounding the city of Isfahan — home to the country’s “nuclear energy mountain” — …