MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has “significant amounts” of Western assets and property on its territory that could be targets for retaliation by Moscow if the West seizes income from Russian assets, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) agreed at a summit in Italy last week to […]
China appears to still be weighing how it will respond to sweeping new tariffs on Chinese imports, but Joe Biden told Yahoo Finance that a retaliation is likely coming. “I don’t think it’ll lead to any international conflict or anything like that, but I think they’ll probably try to figure out how they can raise […]
Iran’s foreign minister dismissed the Friday morning strikes on his country, which hit near a major air base and nuclear site near the city of Isfahan, casting doubt on their origin and downplaying their impact. “What happened last night wasn’t a strike,” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in translated comments during an interview on NBC News’s “Top […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Israel not to respond to Iran’s direct attack with a “massive attack of its own” in an appeal for calm. Scholz called for further de-escalation and for Israel to now use the successful defence against Iran’s missile and drone attack “to strengthen its own position in the entire region.” On […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran, risking further expanding the shadow war between the two foes into a direct conflict after an Iranian attack over the weekend sent hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel. Israeli officials have not said how or when they might strike. But as countries around the […]
By Idrees Ali and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran faces a dilemma following an Israeli attack on its embassy in Syria: how to retaliate without sparking a wider conflict that Middle East analysts said Tehran doesn’t appear to want. Monday’s strike, which killed two Iranian generals and five military advisers at Iran’s embassy compound […]
Iran will retaliate for a suspected Israeli air strike against its consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday, a day after seven Iranian military commanders were killed in the attack. “Having failed to destroy the will of the resistance front, the Zionist regime (Israel) has put blind assassinations back […]
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Friday to make Israel pay “in blood” for killing civilians in southern Lebanon. “We do not tolerate the issue of harming civilians, and the enemy must understand that they have gone too far in this matter,” Nasrallah said during a ceremony to commemorate the leaders of the resistance. “The […]
Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel in response to deadly airstrikes that Lebanon state media reported has now killed 10 people, according to reports. The pledge comes after Lebanese strikes killed an Israeli soldier Wednesday, prompting Israel to respond with its own deadly counterstrikes, which hit the city of Nabatiyeh and a village in […]
The civilian death toll from two Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon has risen to 10, Lebanese state media reported on Thursday, making the previous day the deadliest one in more than four months of cross-border exchanges. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate for the strikes, which hit in the city of Nabatiyeh and […]
WASHINGTON — This was the day that President Joe Biden and his team had feared for more than three months, the day that relatively low-level attacks by Iranian proxy groups on U.S. troops in the Middle East turned deadly and intensified the pressure on the president to respond in kind. With three U.S. service members […]
The leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah said on Friday that his group must retaliate after a presumed Israeli strike hit a Beirut neighbourhood this week, killing a senior Hamas official, or else all of Lebanon would be vulnerable to Israeli attack. Hassan Nasrallah appeared to be making the case for a response to the […]