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Hadi al-Amari, secretary general of the Badr Organization, is calling on Iraqi Shia militias to suspend their response to the Saudi-American strikes for the sake of Iraq's interest.

US intelligence is warning that Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin may attempt to test NATO's resolve by carrying out a limited strike against one of the Alliance's member states within the next few years.

Four call-up centers will rehearse crisis conscription procedures on 8 August, as the Baltic country translates years of intelligence warnings into physical mobilization infrastructure.

The Iliad and Odyssey have shaped Western ideas of heroism for nearly three millennia. Yet despite centuries of debate over whether they reflect historical reality or poetic fantasy, the Homeric world remains an internally consistent universe worth studying on its own terms. This isn’t about separating fact from fiction: it’s about understanding the warrior ethos that dominated the ancient Greek and Roman imagination, and how battles were truly fought in the world of Achilles, Hector, and Odysse
On the night of August 7, Russian troops destroyed a post office in the Hlukhiv community of the Sumy region.

Organizers of annual event grapple with unofficial cultural boycott as global talent, usually a prominent part of the program, shuns Israel in wake of Oct. 7 The post At Israel Festival, show goes on without international acts amid war, isolation appeared first on The Times of Israel.
On Friday night, Russian troops launched a combined strike on Sumy using guided aerial bombs, jet-powered drones, and other UAVs, resulting in two people being wounded, reported Head of Sumy Regional Military Administration Oleh Hryhorov.

The FAA has ordered mandatory inspections of 471 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the U.S. after cracks were found in a structural reinforcement component that could affect aircraft integrity. The directive takes effect September 10 and covers certain 737-8, 737-9, and 737-8200 models. Source: WSJ

Six US lawmakers urged the Trump administration to sanction Bosnian Serb officials after 26 Srebrenica Memorial Center staff were summoned by Republika Srpska police, following a genocide denial report. READ MORE

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has said its Group 13 special unit destroyed a Russian Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft gun system, along with a military crane, in temporarily occupied Crimea in early August.

KARACHI: The exhumation of 25-year-old businessman and Institute of Business Administration graduate Mir Raza Ali’s body was postponed on Friday after his family objected to the abrupt reconstitution of the medico-legal board formed for the purpose. Ali’s body was found in bushes in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar last month, a day after he went missing on July 28. While his family is convinced that he was kidnapped, tortured and murdered, investigators probing the incident continue to build their c

Turkey's Fidan says Israel 'has no intention or plan for peace' in Gaza Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told reporters on Wednesday that Hamas has "fulfilled many of the responsibilities" to implement the US-backed Gaza peace plan while Israel continues to undermine the process. Fidan warned that Israel is using negotiations to advance its own policies rather than achieve a settlement, adding that Israel’s expansionist policies could lead to a global crisis. "Israel has no intention or p

According to available information, a NATO intelligence-linked hybrid warfare specialist, Bart de Wachter, provided the coordinates of oil and gas terminals in the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions to Ukraine’s Security Service

The U.S. is relocating some of its aerial refueling aircraft from Ben Gurion Airport to free up space for heavy commercial air traffic during the peak travel season. Source: N12

It is conceivable that in one blistering campaign, the People’s Republic of China could invade, occupy, and forcibly annex Taiwan. One question would dominate the post-occupation debate: “What more could have been done?” The obvious answers will be better intelligence, bigger exercises, more weapons. One underexamined answer is a different model for U.S. special operations forces advising.The United States has spent decades using rotational military teams to train foreign partners. This approach

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Explosions at Saudi forces' camps in Marib, Yemen, after a reportedly Houthi missile and drone strike, per Houthi-affiliated media. https://t.co/5VyvIjx7xp

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Rep. Andy Ogles, a two-term Republican backed by President Trump, lost the Tennessee GOP primary in a surprise upset to former state agriculture commissioner Charlie Hatcher. Despite Trump's endorsement and support from conservative groups, Ogles struggled in a newly redrawn district and faced ongoing criticism over his controversial rhetoric.

The pledge came as Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul hosted the country's military-appointed president, Min Aung Hlaing, in Bangkok.
US President Donald Trump stated that Russia appears to have intensified attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine, emphasizing that he is concerned about significant casualties in the war.

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The Russian hackers gained access to communications and files revealing who provided the exact coordinates of the facilities and who "pushed Ukraine toward terrorism in the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions"

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The attack unfolded at a school in Nonthaburi province, where a student allegedly opened fire before dying by suicide.

At least seven people were killed on Friday when a student opened fire at a school in Thailand before turning the gun on himself, a national police official said. Students streamed out of the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, on the northwestern outskirts of Bangkok, as the wounded were loaded onto ambulances and teachers hugged each other and cried. In photos circulated by emergency workers, one person is seen lying down on a stretcher outside an ambulance, while another is attended to by a medic. Lt
Ukrainian drones hit a Wildberries warehouse in Yekaterinburg, deep in the Urals. At up to 2,000 km from the front, one of the deepest strikes yet. https://t.co/wOZq2u5f6T

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Over the past 24 hours, on August 6, Russian troops killed one resident of the Donetsk region and wounded five others.
Former Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov hopes that the projects he launched at the Ministry of Defense will continue, predicting that in August there will already be the first major payments to military personnel on the front line.

Ten people were injured, including two in a critical condition, after a Russian drone struck civilians at a market in the Bilopillia community on 7 August.

Ukrainian defense tech company Fire Point reports the completion of the first stage of development for the new Freyja missile defense system project and readiness to begin mass production of the Ukrainian FP-7.X anti-ballistic interceptor missile by the end of the month.

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At least four people were killed and 15 students injured during a school shooting just north of Bangkok on Friday, the Thai deputy interior minister said. Two students and two teachers were killed in the assault at the high school in Nonthaburi province, deputy interior minister Polapee Suwunchwee told local broadcaster Thai PBS. The injured students were not hurt by gunfire but as they were trying to flee, he said. The shooter was identified as a teenage student of the school and also reported
Russian troops carried out 48 strikes on 34 settlements in the Sumy region over the past day, injuring 13 people, including one child.

KARACHI: The medical board tasked with exhuming the body of Institute of Business Administration (IBA) graduate Mir Raza Ali has been reconstituted, it emerged on Friday. A day earlier, a Karachi court allowed the exhumation on an application filed by Ali’s father, wherein the court directed the police surgeon and the Sindh health secretary to constitute a medico-legal board for the exhumation of Ali’s body “at the earliest possible date and time”. The court ruling came on an application filed b

Trump is caught between an emerging interim deal being negotiated by Iran and Oman that would give Tehran control over the Strait of Hormuz it never possessed before the war