Tánaiste Micheál Martin has appealed to Iran to “step back from an escalation”, after it pledged to retaliate against Israel over the attack on its consulate in Damascus. The Fianna Fáil leader said there have been “very worrying” developments between Iran and Israel in recent days. Iran has vowed to retaliate after two of its […]
Russia has unleashed one of its most devastating attacks against Ukraine’s electric sector, an aerial assault it said was retaliation for recent strikes inside Russia and which could signal an escalation of the war. It comes just days after Russian president Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a preordained election. Many Ukrainians were […]
MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (Reuters) – An escalation of fighting on Lebanon’s southern border would further strain hospitals already struggling with a lack of money in a national financial crisis, the Middle East chief of The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday. Lebanon’s heavily armed Hezbollah party has been exchanging fire with Israel across […]
Taras Kachka, Deputy Economy Minister and Trade Representative of Ukraine, believes that the Polish authorities must respond decisively to the actions of Polish farmers who spilled grain out of Ukrainian trucks to prevent further violent incidents. Source: European Pravda Quote: “The only thing that can save us now is to lift all blockades and guarantee […]
The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has warned of a further escalation of tensions in the Middle East at an informal meeting on Saturday after US retaliatory strikes on pro-Iranian militias in Iraq and Syria. “The Middle East is a boiler that can explode. And certainly, there are attacks both on the Lebanon […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has significantly intensified longstanding efforts by the Kremlin and is setting the stage for future escalation against the Baltic states. Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Details: Military analysts believe that Putin is likely doing this as part of a broader attempt to weaken NATO. On 16 January, Putin […]
Law enforcement charged Beaufort man Friday for firing a shot at a motorist and hitting the target in the head with the butt of a gun. Gilbert Hanners, 25, was booked for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and pointing and presenting firearms at a person Jan. 12, jail records show. Hanners […]
Expanding NATO’s rotational air defense presence in the Black and Baltic Sea regions would be an “appropriate response to the Russian escalation that is already taking place,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said at a press conference with his Romanian counterpart, Luminița Odobescu, in Vilnius on Jan. 11. NATO allies agreed on this model in […]
Ukraine can count on additional support from NATO states for its ongoing defence against Russia’s invasion. At a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council in Brussels on Wednesday, allies discussed providing Ukraine with additional capabilities, amounting to billions in support, the military alliance announced in a statement. What exactly was promised initially remained open, although NATO […]
An Israeli air strike has killed an elite Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon, the latest in an escalating exchange along the border that has raised fears over another Middle East war even as the fighting in Gaza exacts a mounting toll on civilians. The strike on an SUV killed a commander in a secretive Hezbollah […]
The foreign policy chief at the European Union said Wednesday that the drone strike this week that killed a senior Hamas leader could escalate the Israel-Hamas conflict into an “open war” across the Middle East. “The risk that what happened in 2006 could happen again, an open war, is a risk that unfortunately cannot be […]