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Last year India sent three guided missile destroyers and reconnaissance aircraft to the Red Sea, positioning itself as a global player

‘Our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing,’ President Joe Biden warned

One of Iraq’s strongest Iran-backed militias, Harakat al-Nujaba, announced its plans to continue military operations against U.S. troops, despite other allied factions having called off their attacks

‘It’s time to take away even more capability than we’ve taken in the past,’ Austin said Thursday in his first press conference since he was hospitalized on Jan. 1

The president, who is trying to avoid escalation in a region where 30,000 U.S. troops are stationed, says he has already decided how to respond to the attack on a base in Jordan

The drone attack, which the Pentagon attributes to a militia financed by Iran, also wounded some 25 military personnel, the first casualties among U.S. forces since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza

The president said the United States ‘will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing’

The launch comes as heightened tensions grip the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, sparking fears of a regional conflict

That summit meeting was seen as an effort to patch up frayed relations due to quarrels over a range of economic and geopolitical issues

There is a risk of the U.S. being drawn into a wider conflict in Iraq and beyond as anger over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and U.S. support for Israel fuels the strikes by Iranian proxies

The declines were most notable in dry regions with extensive cropland, said researchers whose work was published Wednesday in the journal ‘Nature’

Launching these strikes allows Tehran to show strength without risking a wider confrontation with Israel and the U.S. Pakistan wanted to send a message to Iran and other neighbors

The last strikes were launched from the Red Sea and hit 14 missiles that the command deemed an ‘imminent threat’

The area is a facing an explosive cocktail of forces, caught between strikes from Iran and Turkey, and America’s military presence. So far it’s managed to keep the situation under control, but it could ignite at any moment

The attack comes two days after Iran launched missiles against the group’s bases on Pakistani soil, which Islamabad called ‘unacceptable’

The attack on the Genco Picardy is the second in recent days targeting vessels linked to America after U.S.-led strikes targeting the Houthis

The attack also threatened to further ignite violence in a Middle East unsettled by Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip

This latest exchange suggested there has been no let-up in Houthi attacks on shipping in the region, despite the massive U.S. and British assault on the group

Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has recalled its ambassador to Iran for consultations and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad in protest over Iranian strikes that killed several civilians

The seizure comes after weeks of attacks by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea

The U.S. is pressuring countries like Turkey to cut off the funds that feed the organization, which until it took power in Gaza was fueled by money from Iran and private donations

The terrorist group maintains multiple affiliates with the capacity to carry out high-impact attacks, especially in Asia and Africa, despite its weakening in Syria and Iraq

Washington believes that Moscow is also trying to obtain missiles from Iran to replenish its stock of armaments for the war

This will be the fourth time the Secretary of State visits the region since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October

An Iranian source close to the investigation says that the blasts were carried out by suicide bombers, despite earlier talk of remote-controlled bombs having been used. Some Iranian leaders had initially blamed Israel

It’s the first time the Houthis have used an unmanned surface vessel since their harassment of commercial ships in the Red Sea began after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war