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Brigadier General Ibrahim Jabari
Brigadier General Ibrahim Jabari: I tell the Americans: we are waiting for your warships to send them to the bottom of the sea.
women Iran [Getty]
The Israeli military posted an Arabic, Farsi, and English-language video featuring officers 'celebrating' IWD, amid deadly attacks on women in the region.
2025/06/16: Oman Air Aircrafts seen parked at Muscat International Airport (Seeb). (Photo by Fabrizio Gandolfo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Muscat Airport asked private jet operators to avoid additional flights, prioritising government and commercial traffic amid ongoing regional chaos
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According to the Palestinian Centre for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons, some 3,200 women and girls remain unaccounted for since October 2023.
LEBANON- Nawaf Salam
Lebanon is stepping up diplomatic efforts to halt Israel’s attacks while signalling openness to negotiations to end the war.
The Turkish flag is blowing in the wind
A second ballistic missile from Iran was shot down by NATO defence in Turkish airspace, as the US urged all its citizens to leave southeast Turkey
Iraqi oil
If Iraq does not identify alternative export routes in the near future, the national economy may experience significant contraction.
Lebanese living in Lebanon
Nearly 700,000 displaced in Lebanon as Israel’s war intensifies and Syrian refugees begin returning home.
Israel's strikes on Iranian fuel depots were allegedly seen as going too far by the US
Israeli strikes on fuel depots in Iran have triggered a dispute between Washington and Tel Aviv amid fears of escalating war and rising oil prices.
 A Hezbollah flag is seen in front of destroyed buildings from a previous airstrike on March 7, 2026 in Nabi Chit, Lebanon. (Photo by Adri Salido/Getty Images)
Hezbollah says its fighters clashed with Israeli troops in east Lebanon during an Israeli airborne raid overnight, the second such operation in recent days