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US-imposed dollar shortage forces Iraq to tap tax funds for salary payments
Since the 2003 US occupation of Iraq, Washington has controlled Iraq's oil revenues, holding them at the Federal Reserve in New York
WATCH | The Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) Quds Brigades publishes footage of several Israeli military vehicles being targeted using improvised explosive devices and repurposed bombs made from the remnants of Israeli missiles in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
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❗️Turkiye's CHP leader Ozgur Ozel was assaulted outside the memorial for MP Sirri Suueyya Onder.
The attacker, Selcuk Tengioglu, convicted of killing his children in 2004 and conditionally released in 2020, was arrested at the scene.
The attack sparked widespread outrage. Ozel blamed political incitement and said, “No one punches alone—there's always someone behind it.”
He called the assault an attack on civil politics and vowed to keep defending democratic dialogue over division.
Israel vows to strike Yemen 'without restrictions' following Ben Gurion airport strike
The Israeli army had refrained from striking Yemen itself due to a direct request from the White House
❗️The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the capture of senior ISIS figure Hamoud Abdullah al-Khatib (aka Abu Zakaria), who led a cell extorting civilians in Deir Ezzor under the guise of collecting “zakat.”
The operation, backed by the US-led coalition, also resulted in the seizure of a large weapons cache.
❗️ Spokesman for Hamas's Qassam Brigades Abu Obeida:
"Glory to Yemen, the counterpart of Palestine, as it continues to defy the mightiest forces of oppression, refusing submission or defeat despite the aggression it faces. It escalates its attacks on the heart of the illegitimate Zionist entity, surpassing the world’s most advanced defense systems to strike its targets with precision. May God guide your strikes, bless your struggle, and accept your sacrifices. You are of us, and we are of you."
BREAKING | Press statement by the Ministry of Health in Gaza:
"The Israeli occupation is preventing international and UN institutions from accessing fuel storage sites designated for hospitals, claiming they are located in 'red zones.'
Obstructing fuel deliveries to hospitals threatens to shut them down, as they rely on generators to power critical departments.
The fuel currently available in hospitals will only last for 3 more days."
🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces announces its missile strike on Ben Gurion Airport, renewing its warning to all international airlines against continuing their flights to Ben Gurion Airport, and highlighting the following results:
– The failure of US and Israeli air defense systems to intercept it.
– More than three million settlers fled to shelters.
– The airport was completely shut down for more than an hour.
❗️Israel's Channel 15 reports that Tel Aviv is considering changing its policy toward Yemen in recent months and is weighing the possibility of a direct response.
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❗️Israel launches raids on Nuseirat in central Gaza and Mawasi, Khan Yunis in the south.
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❗️Direct impacts reported in the vicinity of Ben Gurion Airport following the missile launch from Yemen.
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BREAKING | Missile sirens sound in central Tel Aviv and Jerusalem ahead of an expected launch from Yemen.
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Syrian forces arrest Palestinian leader as anti-resistance crackdown continues
The arrest of the PFLP-GC leader coincided with an intense Israeli bombing campaign that hit multiple cities across Syria
White House 'covering up' US casualties in Yemen war: Report
The US military has launched over 1,000 airstrikes on Yemen since March without authorization from Congress while refusing to disclose details of injured or killed US troops
❗️HTS-led security forces arrested the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC) Talal Naji, along with his office director.
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❗️ Syria’s transitional government is preparing to sign an agreement with Turkiye to import electricity via a 400-kilovolt transmission line, according to Energy Minister Mohammad al-Bashir.
He also announced efforts to rehabilitate the Kilis–Aleppo natural gas pipeline,
which could supply up to 6 million cubic meters of gas per day to Syrian power plants.
⭕️ Iraq’s Finance Ministry has begun tapping into long-dormant tax deposit reserves to pay public sector salaries amid a liquidity crisis caused by delayed US dollar transfers from the Federal Reserve.
With state banks facing cash shortages and halting loans, the cabinet granted emergency approval for the withdrawals to ensure payroll continuity.
(Shafaq News)
BREAKING | Two journalists suffocate from tear gas fired by Israeli occupation forces invading the Old City of Nablus, West Bank.
Red Crescent reports at least 44 Palestinians injured in the raid.
❗️Israeli Army Radio reports that Ghassan Alian, Druze-Israeli army commander, the head of the 'Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories' entered Syria and met with Druze leaders.
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Watch the moment Yemen's missile fell, as documented by a settler from inside Ben Gurion Airport.
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BREAKING | Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reports, citing officials, that Israel will respond forcefully to Yemen's targeting of Ben Gurion Airport, and that after this attack, Israel no longer considers itself "bound by any restrictions."
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❗️Lufthansa Group, Swiss International Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Air Europa, and Air India, among others, have announced the cancellation of their upcoming flights to Israel in the coming hours.
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BREAKING | 13 Palestinians, including 7 women and a child, were killed in a single strike on a tent sheltering displaced people in Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis.
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📹 Scenes from the site of the Yemeni missile strike, which left a 25-meter-deep crater next to Ben Gurion Airport.
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❗️Initial footage of the moment the Yemeni missile fell near Ben Gurion Airport.
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❗️The Israeli military announces the killing of two of its soldiers and the serious injury of another in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Army Radio reports details of the ambush that struck an engineering unit in Rafah yesterday:
– An Israeli force from the Yahalom engineering unit, operating under the Golani Brigade in Rafah, was clearing a tunnel opening inside a building.
– Around 5:30 PM, an explosive device detonated inside the tunnel opening, killing two soldiers and injuring two others, one critically.
– The unit had conducted preliminary scans and sweeps of the building and tunnel entrance, but still failed to detect the explosive.
❗️US warplanes have launched several strikes across Yemen, including on Saada and the Ras Issa Oil Port.
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❗️Netanyahu's office announces that
In light of the ongoing developments in Gaza and Syrian, and due to a busy schedule, the prime minister has decided to postpone his visit to Azerbaijan to a later date.
❗️Hezbollah condemns the Israeli attacks on Syria:
"Hezbollah condemns the treacherous Zionist aggression that targeted Syria in a blatant assault on its sovereignty, hiding behind flimsy pretexts and hollow slogans to pursue its expansionist and divisive agendas aimed at dismantling Syria, fragmenting it, and sowing discord among its people.
This Zionist aggression is a clear attempt to undermine the stability of the Syrian state and weaken its capabilities, and it comes in the same context as the ongoing attacks against Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
At Hezbollah, we stress the importance of preserving Syria’s unity and sovereignty as an independent state. We express our confidence that the honorable people of Syria will stand as a formidable barrier against these sinister schemes, and we call on the international community—especially Arab states—to urgently act to stop this aggression targeting the region’s countries, stability, sovereignty, and security."
❗️Israeli settlers aggressively stop a vehicle carrying journalists on the outskirts of Al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, occupied West Bank, threatening to shoot them and ordering them to leave the area.
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