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Pakistan has welcomed Kuwait’s ratification of a 2023 defence cooperation agreement between the two countries, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Wednesday. Pakistan has been negotiating an expanded defence pact with Kuwait in exchange for energy cooperation and investment, the Reuters news agency reported earlier this month, citing five sources with knowledge of the talks. In a statement responding to media queries, FO spokesperson Dr Tahir Andrabi said the agreement marked “another important mile

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says a response to U.S. strikes is "inevitably coming" and could target American assets in Saudi Arabia when conditions require, while pledging not to disrupt the ongoing Arbaeen pilgrimage. - Al Mayadeen

The disarmament of the FDLR is a key step towards implementing a United States-brokered peace deal between Kinshasa and Kigali.

CENTCOM: The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway. The IRGC has no authority to dictate routes for free and open traffic flow. Commercial vessels continue to use the strait with U.S. military support. Since early May, CENTCOM forces have helped approximately 1,000 vessels and 500 million barrels of crude oil pass through the narrow waterway.

Riyadh’s decision to join the US in striking sites associated with the Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces further complicates a chaotic war US-Saudi strikes on Iran-backed militia in Iraq on Wednesday have pushed the region into “uncharted territory”, analysts have warned. Amid stark warnings of a widening and increasingly “unpredictable” conflict, Riyadh’s decision to publicly join the US in striking sites associated with Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, killing at least 20 fighters, ha

At a desolate Syrian camp, home to thousands of displaced Kurds, Ahmad Oussi appealed for help to return to his hometown, seven years after a Turkish offensive drove him out. Residents of the Talaeh camp complain former Turkish-backed fighters are squatting in their properties in the Ras al-Ain area, around 70 kilometres (40 miles) away. "The factions are living in our homes," Oussi, 26, complained. "We get calls from them telling us, 'You can't go back to your homes ... they're our homes now'

Houthis Prepare to Impose Fees for Red Sea Transit Yemen's Houthi rebels are developing plans to impose transit fees on commercial vessels navigating the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait, formulated alongside Iranian advisers. READ MORE

In a strongly worded statement issued on Wednesday, the Ukrainian Embassy in India questioned whether New Delhi would once again summon Russia's representative, as it had after an earlier deadly attack involving Indian sailors.

The US and Saudi Arabia jointly struck Iran-backed militias on July 29 in a move that widens the conflict in the Middle East. This comes a day after the US president met with the Israeli prime minister for the first time since they started their military campaign on Iran. As the midterm elections comes closer, Donald Trump is looking to take decisive action in the conflict. FRANCE 24's Angela Diffley tells us more.
Senior Israeli official: The Iranians have moved centrifuges to Pickaxe, but Israel is not aware of any uranium enrichment taking place there.
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The Carney government’s agreement with a German natural gas company will also reduce Europe’s dependence on a Qatari supply made more uncertain by war.

Two civilians were killed and 10 others were injured as a result of Russian attacks on Kherson Oblast on 20 July.

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Senior Israeli official: Centrifuges at Mount Pickaxe, but no enrichment yet.

Iraq's Islamic Resistance said it will delay its retaliation for recent U.S. attacks until after the Arbaeen pilgrimage to avoid disrupting security for millions of pilgrims. The group warned that strikes against U.S. forces are inevitable and said Saudi Arabia could also be targeted if necessary.

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According to the official, the personnel purges are fully coordinated with Vladimir Zelensky, who seeks to remove from military intelligence the people who remain loyal to former head of the department Kirill Budanov

Pentagon Weighs Seizing Troop Cellphones US Central Command warns that soldiers' social media videos provide real-time targeting data to Iran, leading officials to consider seizing cellphones from troops deployed across the Middle East. READ MORE

Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned U.S. and Saudi strikes on multiple areas of Iraq, including Iraqi government facilities and reception camps for Arbaeen pilgrims. The ministry called the attacks a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and a breach of the UN Charter, and offered condolences over Iraqi civilians killed. It blamed the U.S. and Israel for trying to expand the war in West Asia.

Rescuers battled through the tangled wreckage of a Japanese shopping mall Wednesday searching for any trapped survivors after a big earthquake killed at least 13 people.

The Russian Security Council deputy chairman emphasized that the only way to preserve Russia is to ensure victory in the special military operation
The Marxist ideology animating NY’s new administration is just the opening act of inversion. The truly self-destructive attribute of the new New York is its galloping jihadism and anti-Israel hatred.

Rep. Ronny Jackson lays out his concerns about ubiquitous technical surveillance, or UTS, in this new op-ed.

Wildberries distribution center in Ryazan, Russia hit by a Ukrainian drone strike this morning. Warehouse partially collapsed and on fire. https://t.co/gWpeFoMvpl
US CENTCOM said that American forces and “the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces conducted precision strikes in Iraq, July 28, against Iran-aligned terrorists that the IRGC directed to attack US forces."
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Iran’s growing missile and drone attacks on Jordan are turning the kingdom into a new frontline, testing whether Amman will continue to remain quiet or join a regional response.

In a report released today, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said that 402 Taiwanese were reported missing, questioned, or detained in China between January 2024 and July 22, 2026. The total includes 154 missing persons, 32 questioned, and 216 detained. Of those detained, 134 were linked to fraud, 58 to other criminal cases, 23 to religious activity, and one to a national security case. The MAC said Beijing has repeatedly failed to provide timely information through existing cross-Strait judic
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The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has prevented commercial vessels from reaching the port, one of Iraq's main trade terminals and its only deep-water gateway.

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The Israeli military said the Iran-backed militant group had used an explosive drone to target one of its vehicles on a strategic ridge, raising fears of a renewed escalation.

Andrey Grozov called on Australian officials and journalists "to show a public and unequivocal reaction to deadly attacks carried out by the Ukrainian armed forces"

Spain lifted evacuations for Avila province, a day after doing so in parts of the Madrid area. To the north in France, temperatures rose again, with extreme heat warnings in much of the country, including Gironde.

What once felt exceptional now arrives with grim regularity all over the continent, and it will only get worse • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Spain has changed immeasurably since I arrived here 10 years ago to begin work as the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent. Over that time, the push for Catalan independence has exploded, sputtered and faded out; the Covid pandemic has hit with unimaginable ferocity, before seeming to linger for a face-masked eternity; and Pod

The Israeli military on Wednesday said it had struck a mosque in the Gaza Strip which it said had been used by Hamas as a weapons storage facility. AFP photos from Gaza City on Tuesday showed fire and a huge plume of smoke rising above tents housing displaced Gazans during a strike on the Al-Muttaqin Mosque. Palestinians could be seen combing through vast piles of rubble and debris in the aftermath of the attack.

According to Alexander Dudchak, Ukraine is being used as a cover for a war with Russia, as an excuse to allocate serious sums for the development of its military-industrial complex, which will be paid for by the Europeans

Despite having the world's largest reserves of mineral resources, Russia lacks complete production chains for several strategic minerals – alumina, tungsten, ferroniobium, and others – needed to sustain the demands of its military-industrial complex.