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Just hours after the unprecedented Iranian missile and drone attack against Israel, top Iranian military leaders threatened to launch even larger attacks if the Jewish state decides to launch a counterstrike. “Our response will be much larger than tonight’s military action if Israel retaliates against Iran,” the head of the Iranian military, Maj.-Gen. Mohammad Bagheri warned. The Israeli Air Force (IAF), the United States and other allies successfully neutralized about 99% of the 300 missiles and drones Tehran fired toward Israel in the early morning hours on Sunday Bagheri further warned the U.S. that Iran would attack U.S. military bases...

PYONGYANG/BEIJING, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)—North Korea warned Monday that any move to intercept what it calls a satellite launch and what other countries suspect may be a missile test-firing would result in a counterstrike against the countries trying to stop it. "We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means," the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army as saying. If countries such as the United States, Japan or South Korea try to intercept the launch,...

NEW DELHI, April 5: Russia and India will conduct a joint naval exercise in the Indian Ocean next month, but both countries have clarified that the wargames are not linked to the American war on Iraq , Press Trust of India (PTI) said on Saturday. "The forthcoming exercise would play a significant role in strengthening the co-operation, trust and mutual understanding between the two naval powers and heightening the level of stability in the zone of Indian Ocean," PTI quoted the Russian defence ministry as saying in Moscow. The news agency stressed that the "defence ministry specifically noted that Indo-Russian...