Eurasia Press & News

GAZA (Reuters) – About 30 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles pushed as far as 2.5 miles into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, sparking clashes with Palestinians that killed at least three militants, medics and militants said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan successfully tested a cruise missile with a range of 700 km (435 miles) on Tuesday, the military said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq will never allow the United States to have permanent military bases on its soil, the government’s national security adviser said, calling the issue a “red line” that cannot be crossed.

GAZA (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike killed a militant who was trying to launch rockets from the northern Gaza Strip and another died in an explosion in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, militant sources, medics and the army said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber exploded near the home of the leader of a small Iraqi Sunni Arab parliamentary party on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding four, police said.

Gunmen killed the head of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital, police said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of assassinations that has caused many of Iraq’s top medical practitioners to flee the country.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday hailed the latest US intelligence report on the Iranian nuclear program as a positive step and called for more such moves from Washington.

TEHRAN (Fars New Agency)- Commander of the Iranian army’s ground force General Dadras said that the country’s military forces monitor every single move in the region very closely.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pour-Dastan here Tuesday was assigned as the lieutenant commander of the Iranian army’s ground force.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Jordan’s ambassador to Tehran to voice Iran’s strong protest at a series of biased statements recently made by the country’s officials in support of anti-Iran terrorist groups.