Dr Binoy Kampmark

The Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down a US military surveillance balloon over Erbil in northern Iraq as part of efforts to dismantle Washington’s spying capabilities in the region.

Iran’s top military commander says Tehran will not yield to US pressure, and that Washington’s turn to economic, psychological and cognitive warfare will fail just as its military aggression has.

The Hamas Movement has criticized a recent post published by the US-led Board of Peace on its official account on the X platform, saying its article contained information unrelated to reality and unfair positions against Palestinians and their resistance.

Hezbollah says Zionist regime’s is intensifying its attacks on Lebanon, adding that the regime’s strikes that killed four people and wounded dozens earlier in the day came amid international inaction and the Lebanese government's "failure to protect" the nation.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has announced a new international effort to break Zionist regime’s blockade of Gaza, with ships sailing between European ports before a planned attempt to reach the Palestinian territory in October.

Iran’s highest operational command unit warns the “terrorist” US military that the armed forces will deal more “severe and extensive” blows to American warships if Washington continues acts of aggression in the region.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Navy announces striking three United States-linked vessels and three trespassing oil tankers in retaliation for earlier American attacks on Iranian tankers.

Member of Hamas’s political bureau and head of its Al-Quds’ Affairs Office, Haroun Nasser al-Din, condemned the killing of a Palestinian man from Occupied Al-Quds early on Friday, describing it as a “field execution.”

The Palestinian Information Center “Mu'ata” said that 2026 has been the deadliest year for attacks by Zionist settlers in the occupied West Bank and Al-Quds.

A UN report says Zionist regime’s forces have forcibly displaced the entire Palestinian populations of three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank between January and February 2025 and have continued to prevent their return, raising concerns of forcible transfer and “ethnic cleansing.”

At least three people have been martyred and 23 others wounded in fresh Zionist regime’s strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, according to the country’s health ministry, which described the toll as preliminary.