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WASHINGTON: The White House on Monday said Iran was in some cases “actively facilitating” rocket and drone attacks by Iranian-backed proxy groups on US military bases in Iraq and Syria, and president Biden has directed the Department of Defense to brace for more and respond appropriately. White House spokesman John Kirby said there had been an uptick in such attacks over the last week, and…

Palestinians: 2 killed in Israeli military raid in West Bank

JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians on Saturday in an exchange of fire that erupted during a military raid in the West Bank, according to Israeli and Palestinian accounts, in the latest confrontation that has made 2022 the deadliest year of violence in the occupied territory since 2015. The raid occurred in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, the site of…

Syrian military: Attack on bus kills 13, most of them troops

Syrian state media say an attack on a civilian bus in the country’s north has killed 13 people, including 11 soldiers, and wounded three troops DAMASCUS, Syria — An attack on a civilian bus in northern Syria on Monday killed 13 people, including 11 soldiers, and wounded three troops, Syrian state media reported, quoting an unnamed military official. According to state news agency, SANA, the…

Israel braces for unrest ahead of right-wing Jerusalem march

    JERUSALEM — Israelis prepared for possible unrest ahead of a planned march by Jewish ultranationalists through east Jerusalem on Tuesday that poses a test for the country’s fragile new government and the tenuous truce with Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers. Palestinians consider the rowdy march, which usually winds through the Old City’s Damascus Gate and into the heart of the Muslim Quarter, a…

Attacks target polio teams in east Afghanistan, 4 killed

    KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunmen on Tuesday targeted members of polio teams in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least four staffers, officials said. No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks in the city of Jalalabad. Along with the four killed, at least three members of the polio vaccination teams were wounded, said Dr. Jan Mohammad, who coordinates the anti-polio…

OUTSIDE BAGHOUZ, Syria | More civilians leave last IS-held pocket in eastern Syria

OUTSIDE BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — Small trucks carrying civilians left the Islamic State group’s last pocket of territory in eastern Syria in an escorted convoy on Friday, hours after coalition airstrikes meant to pressure the militants targeted the area on the banks of the Euphrates River.

At least 15 trucks were seen leaving the through a humanitarian corridor from the militants’ last patch of…

SRINAGAR, India  | Pakistani accused in journalist’s death killed in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India  — Indian security forces shot dead an alleged Pakistani militant accused in the death of a prominent journalist during a gunfight Wednesday in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said.

Naveed Jatt and another accomplice were killed in a joint military-police operation in central Kashmir’s Badgam district that also left three soldiers injured, said Additional Director General of…