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5 IRGC officers, including Syria intel chief, killed in Damascus strike blamed on Israel

Revolutionary Guards’ deputy intel chief in Syria also among the dead; security source says multi-story building entirely flattened by ‘precision-targeted Israeli missiles’ An alleged Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence chief for Syria and his deputy as well as two other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian …

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Hezbollah – Iran’s Pawn – OpEd

A war with Israel is the last thing that Lebanon needs. The Lebanese people are in the midst of a severe economic downturn, facing soaring prices and severe shortages of food and basic commodities. Hezbollah-allied political, financial and business leaders, the source of the graft and corruption at the heart …

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Ukraine Military Situation: Few Frontline Changes – Analysis

Battlefield UpdateLast week’s fighting brought few frontline changes, save for minor Russian tactical advances: the war remains positional. The overall situation, nonetheless, should not be characterized as a stalemate. Ukrainian engineering units have not matched their Russian counterparts in defensive depth-building, while Ukraine’s military resilience has been tied to Western …

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Iran And Pakistan: Another Front For An Already Embattled Islamabad – Analysis

The badlands that form the Iran-Pakistan border have for years been notorious for smuggling, human trafficking, narcotics trade, and of course, movement of insurgents and terrorists. It is anything but a tranquil frontier because skirmishes, shallow incursions and raids, and even occasional mortar shelling are fairly routine. But both countries …

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