Tag: International Politics
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How many people have been killed in the Iran war?
Thousands of people have been killed across the Middle East in the Iran war, which began when the U.S. and Israel struck Iran on Feb. 28. Those strikes triggered Iranian attacks on Israel, U.S. bases and the Gulf states, while opening a new front in Lebanon. Here are the latest death tolls reported. Reuters has…
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Trump issues fiery new threat against Iran as details of U.S. aviator’s rescue emerge
TEHRAN, Iran • — President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-filled threats against Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline, after American forces rescued a wounded aviator whose Iran-downed plane fell behind enemy lines. A defiant Iran struck infrastructure targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries and threatened to restrict another heavily used regional waterway, the Bab…
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Trump gives Iran 48 hours to open Strait of Hormuz
TEL AVIV, Israel — President Donald Trump on Saturday again threatened Tehran over his Monday deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz: “Time is running out.” The war, now in its sixth week, began with joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Feb. 28 and has killed thousands, shaken global markets, cut off key shipping routes, and spiked fuel prices. It…
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U.S. deploys bulk of stealthy long-range missile for Iran war
The next steps in the U.S. military campaign against Iran will commit nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, drawing them from stockpiles devoted to other regions. The order to pull the $1.5 million weapon from Pacific stockpiles was issued at the end of March, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Missiles at U.S. facilities…
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Ukraine expects top U.S. envoys in Kyiv this month to reboot talks
Ukraine expects top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to lead a U.S. delegation to Kyiv this month, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff said, as efforts to resume peace talks get underway. The team may arrive shortly after Orthodox Easter, which is celebrated on April 12, Kyrylo Budanov told Bloomberg. While special envoy Witkoff and Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, have visited Russia multiple times for talks with…
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Trump rejects efforts to launch Iran ceasefire talks
WASHINGTON/DUBAI/TEL AVIV • President Donald Trump’s administration has rebuffed efforts by Middle Eastern allies to start diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the Iran war that started two weeks ago with a massive U.S.-Israeli air assault, according to three sources familiar with the efforts. Iran, for its part, has rejected the possibility of any ceasefire until…