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Tel Aviv: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he has ordered the country's military to 'expand' the security zone in Lebanon to neutralise the threats posed by Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. This comes after he made an assessment of the situation with top officials at the northern command headquarters of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in Safed. In a video message to the country, Netanyahu said Hezbollah still has residual capability to fire rockets against Israel. Through the widening of the operations, the Israeli prime minister said, the country's military will attempt to thwart anti-tank missiles fired at…

Tehran: An early morning airstrike on the Iranian side of the Shalamcha border crossing caused a temporary halt in trade and power supply on Sunday, according to local officials. The incident, which took place at around 3 am, briefly affected movement and commercial activity between Iran and southern Iraq. Haider Abdul Samad, deputy director of the crossing, said electricity was cut following the strike, forcing a pause in operations for several hours. Power was later restored by mid-morning, allowing trade and border activities to resume. This is not the first such incident since the conflict began. Abdul Samad noted that…

Riyadh: Amid speculations of the US planning a ground operation in Iran, Tehran on Sunday claimed that it has destroyed an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft of the American military in Saudi Arabia. The strike had happened on Friday at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Al Kharj. Images and videos, including those released by Iranian media, have also gone viral on micro-blogging platform X (formerly Twitter), showing the destroyed E-3 Sentry at the Prince Sultan Air Base. As of now, the US or Saudi authorities have not confirmed the Iranian claims.  However, quoting an official, The Wall…