Sweden took a giant step towards becoming the 32nd NATO member after the Turkish parliament approved its admission into the military grouping…
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There are several good reasons why Egypt is likely to continue to reject Israel’s proposed takeover of the Philadelphi Corridor.Underlying the…
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page”.This famous quote is attributed to the theologian Saint Augustine from the…
Throughout the 19th century, international diplomatic dispatches referred to our part of the world as either the East or the Orient. The French would…
In 1972, President Mohamed Anwar Sadat surprised the world by ordering the expulsion of 11,000 Soviet military and technical ‘advisers’ from Egypt…
Israel loses 24 soldiers in Gaza, its highest death toll in a single day
AFP
Israeli troops carry the coffin of a fellow soldier during his funeral in the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on January 23, 2024.
Reuters
21 reserve soldiers died as they tried to rig two buildings in southern Gaza with mines to perform a controlled demolition, according to Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari.
AFP
According to Hagari, Hamas commandos fired a rocket-propelled grenade at an Israeli tank that was deployed to protect the soldiers rigging the buildings with bombs, causing a chain reaction that led to the structures' collapse.
AFP
The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, released a statement Tuesday describing an attack that was consistent with the time and nature of the Israeli military’s description.
EPA
Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of an Israeli soldier, during his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, 23 January 2024.
Reuters
Friends and family mourn an Israeli military reservist who was killed in southern Gaza.
AFP
Israeli troops attend the funeral of a fellow soldier in the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on January 23, 2024.
AFP
The family and friends of an Israeli soldier mourn during his funeral at the military cemetery in Tel Aviv on January 23, 2024,
What can we expect in 2024? Record global temperatures with increasingly harmful effects, a cost-of-living crisis, and escalating tensions in the…
Despite some policy and directional differences among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the occasional disputes between its member…
India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been in power since 2014, has once again demonstrated its ability to rally…
The main theme of this year's World Economic Forum in Davos was captured in the event’s subheading, "Rebuilding Trust". The need to do that was a…
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