The blast shattered windows and sent thick smoke billowing from the city center. A massive explosion shook Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people and injuring thousands of others while flattening much of the port, damaging buildings across the capital, and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. At a press conference later Tuesday, President Trump…
Both men, Lebanese nationals, are thought to belong to a larger terror cell; Bangkok police make arrests after receiving information from Israeli intelligence. Illustration: Thai soldiers stand guard at the Royal Thai Police headquarters in Bangkok. January 18, 2014. Credit: Reuters Two members of Hezbollah arrested several days ago in Thailand have admitted that they were…
No casualties have been reported, the agency said. Plumes of dense black smoke billowed into the air, in a photograph of the incident published by the official IRNA news agency. State broadcaster IRIB showed fighters tackling clouds of smoke at a shipyard at the southern port on the Gulf. There have been several explosions and…
The fake carrier will be at sea as US Rear Admiral Jim Kirk’s USS Nimitz arrives at the 5th Fleet’s area of operations. Iran’s refurbished mockup aircraft carrier, used previously as a simulated U.S. target during a February 2015 Iranian naval war games exercise, is seen at its homeport of Bandar Abbas, Iran February 15,…
An Israeli artillery gun fires into Lebanon, 2016. (File photo: 2016) Iran and its proxies in Syria and Lebanon do not have the maneuverability to respond to increasing Israeli attacks against them and are unlikely to carry out a large-scale retaliation, said experts, ahead of the border skirmish between Hezbollah and Israel on Monday. Israel has upped its attacks…
The oil market is not considering the threat of a Joe Biden victory in the US election, a renowned oil analyst warned this week. RBC Capital Markets’ Helima Croft told Business Insider that a Biden victory could lead to the renegotiation of the Iran Nuclear Deal, which could in turn see Iran up international oil production….
View of gathering halls in Ashraf 3 during Free Iran Global Summit with Maryam Rajavi – Ashraf 3, July 17, 2020. On Friday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and the MEK held its annual “Free Iran” gathering. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, “Free Iran Global Summit” was held online, connecting over 30,000 locations from above…
Black smoke rose as flames engulfed the Shahid Tondgooyan petrochemical plant in the Khuzestan province of Iran late Sunday afternoon. Hours earlier, more than 500 miles away, detonations rocked the basement of an old, nondescript home in a northern pocket of Tehran. The two-story dwelling was said to have housed at least 30 gas cylinders that…
The precise location of Friday’s explosion was unclear, but analysts said there are several military and training facilities in the area. A satellite photo shows damage to a building housing an advanced centrifuge assembly plant at the Natanz nuclear site in Iran where a major explosion occurred on July 2.Credit…Planet Labs Inc., via Associated Press…