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TopicIsrael-Iran conflict

Topic: Israel-Iran conflict

Operation Rising Lion: Netanyahu declares Israel’s ‘opening’ strikes on Iran a success

Israel launched a broad aerial assault across Iran, targeting nuclear installation and key military officials in Operation Rising Lion. Indian Embassy in Tehran posted an advisory on X.

US calls Israeli strikes on Iran ‘unilateral’, warns Tehran against targeting ‘American interests, personnel’

Distancing the US from Israel's strikes, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says their top priority is 'protecting American forces in the region'.

New round of Iran nuclear negotiations begins. Time to talk about Israel’s atomic bombs too

Trump and Iranian negotiators will have to find guarantees that address the concerns of Iran but also its adversaries like Israel and Saudi Arabia.

US says THAAD anti-missile system is ‘in place’ in Israel

AD's deployment, along with about 100 US soldiers, is meant to help defend Israel, which is weighing an expected retaliation against Iran after Tehran fired over 180 missiles on 1 Oct.

Iran’s Shahab-3, India’s Agni-1 to US’s Minuteman III—ballistic missile arsenals, who has what

Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.

Where peace lies in Middle East is anyone’s guess. Iran no longer lonely, Israel more pumped

Iran's missile attack on Israel following the latter's year-long assault on Gaza and elimination of Hezbollah leadership have led US war hawks to call for escalation.

Don’t believe there will be an ‘all-out war’ in Middle East, can avoid it, says US President Joe Biden

Biden said Thursday that a lot needs to be done to avoid such a war. 'We have already helped Israel. We are going to protect Israel,' he asserted.

Israel reinforces military presence in Lebanon as Hezbollah reports clashes with troops

Israel's addition of infantry and armoured troops suggests the operation may move beyond limited commando raids.

‘Iran’s retaliation against Israel could take time,’ says Revolutionary Guards spokesperson

Hamas leader Haniyeh was killed hours after he attended the inauguration of Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian. Israel neither confirmed nor denied it was behind the killing.

Israel-Iran conflict is bad news for Russia. Moscow is dependent on Tehran for drones

The US no longer enjoys the ‘rewards' of regime change in Iran brought about by the CIA, and at best, it could refrain from attempting another coup in Tehran.

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As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.