Israel, Jordan and Iraq close airspace as Iran launches barrage of missiles in major escalation
World | October 02, 2024 0:07 ISTThe Israeli Army said Iran had launched over 200 missiles targeting approximately 10 million civilians.
The Israeli Army said Iran had launched over 200 missiles targeting approximately 10 million civilians.
The flight IA-473 with 100 passengers and 15 crew on board made a diversion from its course and landed at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport. The airport health officer (APHO) checked the passenger and found no pulse. Neither did the doctor find any heartbeat.
The US Central Command said the ISIS terrorists were armed with "numerous weapons, grenades and suicide belts" on Thursday when the raids took place, adding that there were no civilian casualties. The US continues to fight the terrorist group after dislodging it from Iraq and Syria.
The bill tabled by a coalition of Shia Islamist parties has proposed amendments to the Personal Status Law of 1959, allowing girls to be married at age 9 and boys at 15. The bill was met with widespread criticism by women and children's rights activists.
Tensions in the region are at an all-time high after the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr. It is yet to be determined whether the latest attack on Iraq was linked to threats by Iran, which blames the US for Haniyeh's death.
It has not been verified who launched the airstrike at the Kalso base, which happened in the backdrop of Israel's suspected attack on Iran that fuelled tensions of a regional war. While the Iran-aligned militia blamed American forces, Washington said there were no US airstrikes in Iraq.
The 37-year-old Iraqi man sparked intense outrage in Muslim countries by burning pages of the Quran, leading to riots and unrest in several areas. He was reported dead earlier this month after he went to Norway when Sweden rejected his asylum bid.
The planned overhaul comes after two decades of war in Iraq and Afghanistan that forced the Army to quickly and dramatically expand in order to fill the brigades sent to the battlefront.
The Iraqi Border Forces started sending enforcement, deploying units, and building new posts in mountainous areas in the Amadiyah district of the Dohuk governorate, near the Turkish border in northern Iraq.
There were conflicting reports on the number of those killed, with US officials saying the initial assessment was one, and saying there were no civilians hurt or killed.
The US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said Monday the attack hit a training ground at al-Omar base in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour, where the forces’ commando units are trained.
The US military said that its massive barrage of strikes hit command and control headquarters; intelligence centres; rockets and missiles, drone and ammunition storage sites; and other facilities connected to the militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force.
Raisi's remarks came after the US approved plans for strikes in Iraq and Syria in response to the killing of three American soldiers by a drone in Jordan. There has been rising speculation of an American response as tensions heated up in the Middle East since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
American forces in the Middle East have been attacked more than 150 times by Iran-backed forces in Iraq, Syria, Jordan and off the coast of Yemen since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October.
US troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked about 150 times by Iran-aligned militants since the Israel-Hamas war broke out in October. The war in Gaza is at risk of spreading as the US is also engaged in fighting with Yemen-based Houthis, as all Iran-backed forces oppose US backing of Israel.
Iran had accused Israel of killing a high-ranking Iranian general Sayyed Razi Mousaviin an airstrike in Damascus last month after two members of the Revolutionary Guards. Tehran argues that Iraq's Kurdistan region is a staging ground for Iranian separatist groups and its arch-foe Israel.
The US military has come under attack at least 100 times in Iraq and Syria after the Israel-Hamas war broke out in October, usually with missiles and one-way attack drones. The US has 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in neighbouring Syria focused on preventing a resurgence of Islamic State militants.
The US and coalition forces have been attacked at least 82 times by Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Houthi rebels in Syria since October 17. The forces have promised to continue attacking the US as the latter continues to support Israel's operations against Hamas in Gaza.
14 people died and 18 others were injured in a fire that broke out in a dormitory of Iraq’s northern city of Erbil.
A roadside bomb exploded in Diyala and gunmen opened fire on rescuers and bystanders present at the scene, according to two security officials. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 11 civilians.
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