NewzThe US says it intercepted an Iranian 'surprise attack' on US forces as fears rise of wider war. Jordan's air defenses intercepted five missiles launched from Iran early Wednesday, hours after the U.S. military said it had knocked down an Iranian missile barrage launched against American forces in the Middle East.
Al-Sadr tells Iran-backed groups to keep Iraq out of war Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has urged Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and allied armed groups to stop launching attacks from Iraq. Al-Sadr warned the groups against pulling the country into another conflict and called on Baghdad to assert state control. “Rogue militias must not give our brothers in the Gulf states a pretext to target our sacred land,” he wrote on X.
He urged all sides not to “be drawn into the schemes of the Zionist-American enemy to incite brothers to fight and kill one another”. “Iraq and its people need peace,” al-Sadr said, calling for a region free from foreign military bases and colonial domination. US military says it intercepted all Iranian missiles, as fighting threatens to resume.
Plus, how Armenians seek to breathe more easily by heading undergroundDon’t already get First Thing in your inbox? In what Washington cast as “an attempted surprise attack” by Tehran, Iran had launched ballistic missiles at US forces in the Middle East, shattering a brief pause in fighting. US Central Command (Centcom) said all Iranian missiles launched on Tuesday were intercepted.Why is the US-Iran war a threat to biodiversity?
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Iran said it had fired on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and at US bases in Jordan as diplomatic efforts give way to renewed combat operations. and Saudi Arabia said they carried out airstrikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq, Iran targeted sites used by the American military in Jordan and a U.S.-owned ship was hit in an Egyptian port. Baghdad — US-Saudi strikes on Iraq on Wednesday killed at least 20 members of a former paramilitary alliance that includes pro-Iran groups, the alliance said.
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