US-Iran tensions have been escalating with Iran launching over a dozen ballistic missiles in response to the assassination of its military leader Gen Qassem Suleimani.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed responsibility. Pentagon says attack launched from Iran & targeted a base in western Iraq & another facility in Erbil.
Gen Qassem Soleimani's assassination is the latest and most conclusive evidence that Iranian revolutionaries have no greater friends than their supposed enemies in Washington.
The stampede broke out as masses gathered at the hometown of General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike, ahead of his burial. The funeral has been postponed indefinitely.
China has had a muted response to the Soleimani killing and its stance is consistent with its past efforts to avoid commitments in a region where it could clash with the U.S.
The classic example is the fate of President George H.W. Bush. Just two years after the first Gulf War ended, with Bush’s popularity soaring, he lost the 1992 election.
Fourteen million refugees, and 25 million facing acute hunger, should be reason enough for the world to dismantle the dystopia in Sudan — even if the sadism of its rulers is not.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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