Tehran/Jerusalem, March 21 (IANS) Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday it has hit an Israeli F-16 Fighting Falcon in the country’s central airspace. In a statement published on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said the aircraft was struck at 3:45 a.m. local time by air defence systems of its Aerospace Division.It added that the country’s armed forces have successfully tracked and intercepted more than 200 hostile aerial targets, including drones, cruise mis…
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Jerusalem, March 20 (IANS) The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Friday announced that spokesperson and head of the Public Relations Array of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ali Mohammad Naini has been killed. According to the statement released by IDF, Naini served in several propaganda and public relations roles.”ELIMINATED: Ali Mohammad Naini, the Spokesperson and Head of the Public Relations Array of the IRGC. Naini served in several propaganda and public relations roles. In his ro…
Tel Aviv, March 17 (IANS) Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Tuesday termed the Joint Statement issued by the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom on the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, as “a distorted view of reality”.Earlier in the day, leaders of the five countries issued a joint statement, highlighting their grave concern over the escalating violence in Lebanon and called for immediate de-escalation and meaningful engagement by Israeli and L…
Tel Aviv/Tehran, March 7 (IANS) As tensions sharply escalated between the United States, Israel and Iran, the conflict entered its eighth day, with Israel carrying out a fresh round of strikes while explosions were reported at one of Tehran’s main commercial airports. The confrontation, which began on February 28 with a strike in Tehran, has steadily widened in scope. What initially appeared to be a series of aerial exchanges has now expanded into a broader theatre of conflict, including drone a…
Tel Aviv, March 5 (IANS) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) asserted that the “Iranian terrorist regime” has made it very clear that they’re willing to target “everyone around them” in West Asia as the conflict continues to escalate in the region. The Israeli military also mentioned that in the early hours of Thursday, it shot down an Iranian Yakovlev Yak-130 fighter jet and is continuing its operations targeting aerial defence systems and ballistic missile infrastructure inside Iran.In an exclusiv…
Tel Aviv, March 1 (IANS) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed inside his leadership compound in central Tehran, asserting that the operation marked the end of what it described as a decades-long chapter of terror directed against Israel.Khamenei was killed in an epochal attack by the US and Israel, marking an inflexion point in the 46-year Shia-theocratic rule, as Tehran’s retaliation set off conflagrations in a swath of the Midd…
Tel Aviv, March 1 (IANS) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday announced that seven senior Iranian military commanders, including Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh and the Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were killed in what it described as precise airstrikes carried out across Iran. Iran has not officially confirmed the deaths of the commanders named by Israel.The reported killings occurred as part of a wider joint offensive by the United States and Israel targeting Ira…
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Air India’s Delhi–Tel Aviv flight on Saturday returned to the national capital after Israel launched what it described as “preventive” strikes on Iran, triggering airspace closures across parts of the Middle East and disrupting several international services.Israel’s Defence Minister confirmed that the country had attacked Iran. Massive explosions were reported in Tehran, with local media saying several missiles struck areas along University Street and in the J…
Tel Aviv, Feb 28 (IANS) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday said it had detected the launch of ballistic missiles from Iran toward Israeli territory and urged citizens to immediately move into safe rooms and other protected areas.The development comes amid sharply rising tensions in the Middle East after the United States and Israel carried out coordinated strikes on Iran earlier in the day, fuelling concerns of a broader regional conflict with significant geopolitical and economic ramif…
Gaza, Feb 15 (IANS) Gaza’s Civil Defence agency said on Sunday that at least 11 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the enclave, revising an earlier toll of nine. Civil Defence Spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said Israeli aircraft carried out strikes from dawn to midday in several areas, Xinhua news agency reported.One person was killed and several others wounded when a drone struck a group in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood west of Gaza City, he added.Local sources identified the dec…