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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they targeted a “military compound and a rocket launch site” allegedly operated by Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip. The strikes were carried out Thursday night in retaliation to incendiary balloons launched from Gaza, the IDF said. The missiles reportedly hit the city of …

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shared footage of some of the air strikes late on Monday night, claiming to have hit a number of Hamas targets around the Gaza Strip, including eight militants, two rocket launchers and two military outposts. The Gaza Health Ministry, meanwhile, put the death toll at …

Delivered on Thursday by two F-15 fighter jets, Biden’s airstrikes knocked out several facilities the Pentagon says were used by Iranian-backed militias in Syria. The Pentagon described the strikes as “defensive” in nature, and as a response to rocket attacks on US and coalition troops in Iraq. A militia spokesman …

From my time as a volunteer at a raptor rescue, I know doves and pigeons sometimes manage to fight back against hawks. When it happens the dove usually makes little cuts in the hawk’s underbelly, only visible if the bird is turned over. But eventually, the hawk spirals to the …

Rather than doing anything remotely resembling journalism, the Western mass media have opted instead to uncritically repeat what they’ve been told about the airstrike by US officials, which is the same as just publishing Pentagon press releases. Here’s this from the Washington Post: The Biden administration conducted an airstrike against alleged …

“Eating animals is speciesist,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said on its Twitter account on Wednesday, adding that “Speciesism is the human-supremacist belief that one species is more important than another.” If the US-based advocacy was angling for some hype, the proclamation certainly worked. PETA’s name soon …

The munition sale to Saudi Arabia was authorized by the State Department on Tuesday, according to a Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notice, giving the go-ahead for a transfer of 3,000 GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs to the Gulf monarchy, worth some $290 million. The DSCA said the proposed sale would …

Researchers from Loughborough University in the UK modeled the fluid dynamics of expiratory clouds ejected during coughing and sneezing. They found that the ever-evolving clouds of mucus mist, spittle spray, and assorted discharge contained in sneezes match a phenomenon known as buoyant vortex rings – which would be the envy …

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told a meeting sponsored by energy companies Chevron and Transneft on Monday that Moscow “hopes that the United States will stop ‘sharing’ nuclear weapons with its allies, and stop deploying nuclear weapons in countries that do not possess such weapons… Obviously, this leads to destabilization, …

To keep weapons of mass destruction on the Incirlik air base is like playing the lottery. Amid a sharp deterioration of U.S.-Turkish relations in connection with the purchase of Russian air defense systems s-400 and the invasion of Ankara in Syria, Washington had another hot issue. In the White house …