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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw and guided the country’s tactical nuclear operation unit training from Sept. 25 to Oct. 9, North Korea’s KCNA news agency reported on Monday.  North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un oversees a missile launch at an undisclosed location in North Korea, in this photo released on October 9, 2022 by North Korea’s Korean Central …

Iranian police and paramilitary enforcers have killed 185 people since protests erupted against the in-custody death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last month, according to a human rights group. Iran Human Rights says at least 19 of those killed have been children. Unrest has spread across the country for weeks following the death of Amini, who suffered severe injuries while in …

Israeli authorities have arrested at least three Palestinians in connection to a deadly attack on an Israeli military checkpoint Saturday evening. Israeli police are still conducting a manhunt for the suspected gunman in Saturday’s attack, which killed an 18-year-old female soldier and left three others wounded. Israeli Defense Forces have identified the deceased soldier as Noa Lazar. “Our hearts tonight …

A Palestinian opened fire on an Israeli military checkpoint in east Jerusalem on Saturday night, killing a female Israeli soldier and wounding three other people, Israeli authorities said. The attack came hours after a pair of Palestinian teenagers were killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank. It was the latest bloodshed in the deadliest round of …

Top U.S. officials held their first in person meeting with the Taliban since a U.S. military strike killed the leader of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan in July.  The Biden administration sent CIA deputy director David Cohen to the Qatari capital of Doha on Saturday to meet with a Taliban delegation led by Abdul Haq Wasiq, the Taliban’s head of intelligence, …

CNN  —  North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from the Munchon area of Kangwon Province to the waters off the peninsula’s eastern coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters on Sunday. The missiles were launched between 1:47 a.m. and 1:53 a.m. local time Sunday, according to Japan’s State Minister of Defense Toshiro Ino. Both missiles fell outside …

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has appointed a new commander to the armed forces in Ukraine as Moscow looks to turn around its dwindling fortunes.  General of the Army Sergei Surovikin will take over as Commander of the Joint Group of Russian Forces in Ukraine effective immediately, drawing on experience from the second Chechen war and campaigns in Syria and …

Iranian protesters continue to confront the autocratic regime that rules over the vast Mideast country with chants of “death to the dictator,” a slogan targeting the iron-fisted rule of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The pressing question for many experts on Iran and veteran observers of Tehran is will the widespread demonstrations blanketing Iran end the regime that …

Canada on Friday said it would ban the top leadership of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from entering the country and promised more targeted sanctions over the treatment of women in Iran and the downing of a civilian airliner in 2020. Iran has faced increasing international condemnation and nationwide protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the …

A series of explosions rocked the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv early Saturday, sending towering plumes of illuminated smoke into the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The blasts came hours after Russia concentrated attacks in its increasingly troubled invasion of Ukraine on areas it illegally annexed, while the death toll …