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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Iraq on Monday for his first official visit in more than a decade as Ankara seeks greater cooperation from Baghdad in its fight against a Kurdish militant group that has a foothold in Iraq. Other issues also loom large between the two countries, including water supply and exports of oil and gas from …

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. …

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 …

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” — …

An Iranian senior official has revealed that Tehran has no plan to hit back immediately against Israel after the Jewish state carried out limited strikes inside the country early Friday, a report says. The strikes in Iran’s Isfahan province — which is where Natanz, one of Iran’s nuclear facilities, is located —come in retaliation for Iran firing a barrage of …

Unfazed by Thursday’s mass arrests, protests continued at Columbia University on Friday and a large police presence — with officers in riot gear — was reported. Demonstrators, including activist actress Susan Sarandon, marched through the streets to the university, chanting with signs and flags. Protesters could be heard chanting: “NYPD KKK. NYPD we know you. You’re Israeli trained too!” and …

Israel carried out limited strikes in Iran early Friday in retaliation for Tehran firing a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel last Saturday. Here are the key facts you need to know about the latest escalation of violence between the two countries. 1. Where did the strike hit? Fox News confirmed there have been explosions in Iran’s Isfahan province, …

Iranian leadership is downplaying Israeli strikes against their country, despite previously vowing total war in the event of the “tiniest invasion.” During a Friday speech, President Ebrahim Raisi did not mention the Israeli missile strike launched against the Isfahan region of Iran earlier the same day. Instead, Raisi focused on justifying Iran’s own offensive attacks. ISRAEL HITS IRAN WITH ‘LIMITED’ …