U.S.-Iran Tensions: What the Key Players Around Trump Are Pushing For. Including ‘the Beast.’ From Trump administration hawks to Fox News personalities, here are the people steering the president on Iran Amir Tibon Washington. Jul 01, 2019 4:10 PM WASHINGTON — Exactly a week ago, it looked as if […]
TRUMP: U.S. SHIP DOWNED IRANIAN DRONE NEAR STRAIT OF HORMUZ. Rumours and Threats of Wars. “The Boxer took defensive action against an Iranian drone, which had closed into a near distance, approximately 1000 yards,” Trump said. BY JERUSALEM POST STAFF JULY 18, 2019 US President Donald Trump said on […]
Iran Seizes Oil Tanker The video, released by state TV, shows the ship’s registration number as matching that of the MT Riah, the UAE vessel that turned off its location tracker on Sunday The Associated Press Jul 18, 2019 7:20 PM Iran said Thursday its Revolutionary Guard seized a […]
U.S. TO SEND 500 TROOPS TO SAUDI ARABIA AS IRAN TENSIONS HEAT UP Security assessments have shown that Iranian missiles would have difficulty targeting the base located in a remote area. BY JERUSALEM POST STAFF JULY 18, 2019 10:17 The United States is sending 500 troops to the Prince […]
South China Sea threat: Beijing launches six anti-ship missiles in huge warning to West CHINA has sent a stern warning to the West after Beijing fired six Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles (ASBS) in the disputed South China Sea. By LUKE HAWKER PUBLISHED: 23:00, Mon, Jul 15, 2019 | UPDATED: 07:36, Tue, Jul 16, […]
South China Sea: Malaysia launches anti-ship missiles in warning to Xi Jinping MALAYSIA has flexed it’s military muscles as it launches anti-ship missile test in the South China Sea as a warning to Xi Jinping. By CLAIRE ANDERSON PUBLISHED: 00:42, Thu, Jul 18, 2019 | UPDATED: 09:12, Thu, Jul 18, 2019. Express.co.uk […]
From Iraq to Yemen, Drones Raise U.S. Alarm Over Iranian Plans Beyond surveillance, Iranian drones can drop munitions and even carry out ‘a kamikaze flight where they load it up with explosives and fly it into something,’ according to a U.S. official Reuters Jul 17, 2019 6:48 PM The […]
Vietnam, China embroiled in South China Sea standoff By James Pearson and Khanh Vu. Reuters•July 17, 2019 Chinese ship surveyed Vietnamese oil blocks – U.S. think-tanks * One surveyed block licensed to Spanish energy firm Repsol * Chinese ship ‘threatened’ rig operated by Russia’s Rosneft * Both China […]
China holds drills in Taiwan Strait By Ben Westcott, CNN Updated 11:04 PM ET, Mon July 15, 2019 Hong Kong (CNN) China held military drills off the coast of Taiwan as tensions rise between Beijing and Washington over US support for the island that China views as a part […]
UK to send third Royal Navy warship to Gulf Britain has already sent the HMS Duncan, an air defence destroyer, to cover for frigate HMS Montrose while it undergoes maintenance in nearby Bahrain Arabian Business. July 17, 2019 Britain will send a third Royal Navy warship to the […]
