Trump says U.S. ‘obliterated’ military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island but didn’t ‘wipe out’ oil infrastructure

Trump says U.S. ‘obliterated’ military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island but didn’t ‘wipe out’ oil infrastructure

A satellite image shows an oil terminal at Kharg Island, Iran, February 25, 2026. 2026 Planet Labs Pbc | Via Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he directed the U.S. Central Command to carry out a bombing raid, hitting military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island. “Moments ago, at my direction, the United…

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Can Iran’s asymmetric warfare hold US-Israeli military power at bay? | US-Israel war on Iran News

Can Iran’s asymmetric warfare hold US-Israeli military power at bay? | US-Israel war on Iran News

Despite United States President Donald Trump’s repeated declarations of victory in the US-Israeli war on Iran, Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel and US military assets in the region have continued, upending global financial and energy markets. “We’ve had two decades to study defeats of the US military to our immediate east and west. We’ve incorporated…

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Africa: Ethiopia’s Smaller Wars – Destitution, Conflict Escalation, and Military Abuses in Lower Omo

Africa: Ethiopia’s Smaller Wars – Destitution, Conflict Escalation, and Military Abuses in Lower Omo

With war looming in the north of the country, Ethiopia threatens to make headlines again, as it has in recent years due to the wars, insurgencies and intercommunal violence that have raged across its highland core – in the regions of Tigray, Oromia and Amhara. Amid such large-scale violence, conflicts affecting minority groups in peripheral…

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Trump won’t rule out ground troops in Iran as U.S. military confirms 4 troops killed in war

Trump won’t rule out ground troops in Iran as U.S. military confirms 4 troops killed in war

The head of the United Nations’s nuclear watchdog agency, the IAEA, said Monday that his agency had “no indication” that any of Iran’s nuclear installations had been damaged by the ongoing Israeli-U.S. strikes on the country. IAEA director general Rafael Grossi warned, however, that with missiles still flying a “possible radiological release with serious consequences”…

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