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Plans for U.S. strikes on Iranian personnel and facilities in Iraq, Syria approved after Jordan drone attack
CBS - U.S. officials have confirmed to CBS News that plans have been approved for a series of strikes over a number of days against targets — including Iranian personnel and facilities — inside Iraq and Syria. The strikes will come in response to drone and rocket...
US threatens to reimpose sanctions on Venezuelan oil sector
The US has threatened to reinstate sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector, days after the South American country's top court upheld a ban on opposition candidate María Corina Machado. Ms Machado won a primary to become the opposition's unity candidate for the 2024...
‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza
CNN — Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies. These days, the mother-of-seven finds herself begging for food on the mud-caked streets of Rafah, in southern Gaza. She tries to...
Biden has to deal with a second war he didn’t want. His task is to contain it
CNN — US policy in the Middle East can no longer be described as an attempt to stop the Israel-Gaza conflict from triggering a bigger regional war. That hope died weeks ago. The critical task now for President Joe Biden — as he mulls retaliation over the deaths...