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After long maintaining one of the Middle East’s most advanced nuclear programs and most powerful conventional militaries, Iranian decision-makers are beginning to reconsider their nation’s official ban on developing weapons of mass destruction in light of rising tensions and deteriorating security conditions in the region.Such a move, vehemently opposed by Israel and the United States, which are known to possess their own nuclear arsenals, would present both substantial risks and opportunities f…
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A militia based in the Arab island nation of Bahrain has claimed its first-ever attack on Israel, marking what would be a fifth front opened by forces of the Iran-aligned Axis of Resistance coalition since the beginning of the nearly 7-month-old war in the Gaza Strip.The group, known as the Al-Ashtar Brigades and styling itself as the Islamic Resistance in Bahrain, issued a statement Thursday announcing that it had targeted the headquarters of the Israeli company Trucknet Enterprises—said to be…
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A senior official of the powerful Yemeni movement already engaged in direct confrontation with Israel and United States forces has revealed to Newsweek that the group is committed to coming to the aid of its Iran-aligned alliance in the event that the ongoing conflicts surrounding Gaza spiral into a major regional war.“As for our defense of ourselves, our region, and those with whom we have alliances, such as the Axis of Resistance,” Nasreddin Amer, deputy information secretary for Ansar Allah,…
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More than a dozen times, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida uses the word “peace” as he discusses his country’s momentous decision to undertake its largest buildup of military capabilities since World War II.“Since I became prime minister, we have substantially revised Japan’s National Security Strategy,” Kishida told Newsweek during an interview at his office in Tokyo on the heels of his first visit to Washington, D.C., as Japan’s leader for talks with President Joe Biden. “Now, in that stra…
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Shortly after returning from his first leaders-level visit to Washington, D.C., Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sat down with Newsweek for an exclusive interview in his Tokyo office to discuss the main takeaways from his trip, as well as the historic changes he is overseeing in his nation’s military, economic and diplomatic strategies.Kishida, who took office in October 2021, is looking to fortify his country’s long-standing alliance with the United States and expand regional ties. At the…
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Iranian leadership has mobilized its public messaging in staunch support of the pro-Palestinian protest movement sweeping universities across the United States, portraying Washington as hypocritical in its handling of demonstrations at home and abroad amid aggravated geopolitical tensions over the war in the Gaza Strip.With more than 1,000 people arrested over the course of the last 11 days of demonstrations that have spread to dozens of campuses, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi hailed “the upri…
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A senior Cuban diplomat has expressed his nation’s commitment to further boosting ties with China but ruled out the possibility of hosting any foreign military bases, even as an intensifying geopolitical feud between China and the United States comes to the Caribbean.On the heels of a Newsweek investigation that revealed previously unseen details regarding Chinese dealings with the tiny Caribbean island nation of Antigua, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío told Newsweek tha…
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Russia’s top diplomat in the United States has shared with Newsweek a stark warning to Washington in Moscow’s first reaction to President Joe Biden’s signing of a bill to provide some $61 billion in additional wartime aid to Ukraine.The assistance is viewed by Kyiv and its largely Western supporters as a major boost to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as his forces struggle to fend off recent Russian advances, and Ukrainian cities come under regular missile and drone attack more than two y…
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After Iran conducted an unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel in response to a deadly strike against its embassy complex in Syria, the Islamic Republic’s top diplomat in the United States issued a strongly worded letter outlining the legal basis behind the operation and a warning against further escalation.The letter, obtained by Newsweek, was written by Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saied Iravani and addressed to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and U.N. S…
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Syria has issued a new warning to both Israel and the United States at a time when the Middle East is bracing for Iran’s promised retaliation after an alleged Israeli attack on Tehran’s embassy complex in Damascus.With the regional tensions already flaring over the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, the Syrian Mission to the United Nations conveyed to Newsweek the country’s “condemnation in the strongest terms of the Israeli attack that targeted the Iranian consulate building in Damascus.”“What the…
about 1 month ago
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Just over 13 years after Syria was first plunged into civil war between the government and an array of insurgent factions, the country stands today on the frontlines of what has the potential to be the region’s most serious conflict in decades, with the risk of drawing in the United States directly.After years of engaging in shadowy tit-for-tat operations, Iran and Israel’s unofficial battle in Syria has been thrust out into the open by an unprecedented attack in the Syrian capital that killed s…
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