Day: May 17, 2020

i24NEWS May 17, 2020, 12:12 PMlatest revision May 17, 2020, 01:32 PM  2 min read Alex Kolomoisky/FLASH 90/PRESS POOLPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks in the Israeli Parliament after presenting the 35th government of Israel to the Knesset, May 17, 202 oz Netanyahu made the remarks just before Israel’s new 35th government was set to be […]

(Reuters) – Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday, renewing Iran’s demand for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East. Iran almost got into a full-blown conflict with the United States when a U.S. drone strike killed top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani […]

REUTERS MAY 17, 2020 23:43 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said it had come to his attention that the Chinese government had threatened to interfere with the work of US journalists in Hong Kong, and said any decision impinging on Hong Kong’s autonomy could affect the US assessment of Hong Kong’s status. […]

Khamenei blames Britain for creating Israel. BERLIN – The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Khamenei on Sunday issued a series of antisemitic-laced tweets against Israel and Britain. He wrote  that “The Zionist regime & its criminal supporters recognize no bounds in brutality & trampling of moral norms. They consider genocide, destruction, the massacre […]

   The Syrian government has been able to evade potential Israeli airstrikes on their cargo from Iran by flying to the Hmeimim Airbase in the country’s western region. According to air traffic reports, the Syrian government cargo jets have conducted at least three flights from Tehran to the Russian military’s Hmeimim Airbase in the Latakia […]

By REUTERS MAY 17, 2020 15:02 MOGADISHU  – The governor of Mudug, a region in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland, was killed with three of his bodyguards in a suicide car bombing on Sunday that was claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab, police said. “A suicide car bomb hit the governor’s car. Governor Ahmed Muse […]

Israeli troops shoot a man who crossed the border from Lebanon into Israel for as yet unknown reasons, the military says. The Israel Defense Forces says the suspect has been flown to the hospital for his injuries. The military says the suspect crossed the border near Mount Dov, also known as Shebaa Farms. “The incident […]