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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has suffered another significant loss in its leadership ranks with the confirmed elimination of Seyyed Ali Tavasoli. As a senior aerospace officer, Tavasoli was a primary coordinator for the regime's ballistic missile and drone programs, serving as a vital link between the technical production sites and the operational launch units. His death follows a series of high-profile liquidations targeting the "brains" of the Iranian military, part of a systematic campaign to decapitate the regime's command structure. Israeli intelligence sources indicate that the strike was part of an ongoing effort to dismantle the Aerospace Force, which...

The IDF said Thursday it eliminated Makram Atimi, commander of a central Iranian ballistic missile unit, in a precise airstrike in the Kermanshah area. The military said Atimi was responsible for dozens of missile launches toward Israel. In a separate strike, the military said it also killed several battalion commanders from the same unit, which it said was behind repeated launches from northwestern Iran. The IDF said the operations are part of an ongoing effort to degrade Iran’s missile capabilities and command structure. Separately, a US airstrike on Thursday targeted a major highway bridge connecting Tehran to the nearby city...

Yet another member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, General Ali Mohammad Naeini, was reportedly killed in an airstrike overnight. He's just the latest high-ranking Iranian official to be dispatched to the afterlife thanks to the U.S.-Israel airstrikes that have decimated Iran for the past three weeks. Naeini was one of several Iranian leaders who were reportedly killed in the most recent airstrikes. Intelligence has played a vital role in this war, with information often leading to strikes so precise they target individual apartments in Iran. Shortly before his demise, Naeini insisted Iran was still building missiles and that the...

Iranian state television announced Friday that Ali Mohammad Naini, spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli strike, along with his deputy. An Israeli security official later confirmed Naini’s death. The strike followed a string of increasingly aggressive public statements from Naini, who had positioned himself as a central figure in Iran’s messaging throughout the conflict. On February 28—the day the war erupted—Naini struck a tone of defiance, declaring, “We are prepared for all scenarios,” while insisting that previous clashes had proven “the military option against Iran is a failure.” He doubled down days...

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it targeted “senior officials” of Hamas shortly after explosions shook the Qatari capital Doha, in what would mark the first known Israeli air strike on Qatari soil. In a statement released on September 9, 2025, the IDF and Israel’s domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet said the operation was carried out “using the Air Force” with precision munitions. While the military did not disclose which aircraft were involved, the statement was accompanied by an image of a McDonnell Douglas F-15D Baz fighter. The military described the strike as a response against Hamas leaders “directly...

The IAF on Wednesday night conducted an intelligence-based strike in the Humanitarian Area in Khan Yunis and eliminated the head of Hamas Internal Security Forces in the southern Gaza Strip, terrorist Hassam Shahwan. Shahwan was hiding among the civilian population in the humanitarian area when he was eliminated by the IAF. "The Hamas Internal Security Forces have conducted violent interrogations of the Gazan population, violating human rights and suppressing dissent within the organization," the IDF stressed. "Hassam Shahwan was responsible for developing intelligence assessments in coordination with elements of Hamas’s military wing in attacks on the IDF in the Gaza...

Jerusalem: Israel's army confirmed Tuesday it "eliminated" Hezbollah's Hashem Safieddine, apparent successor of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike in a southern Beirut suburb three weeks ago. "It can now be confirmed that in an attack approximately three weeks ago, Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, and Ali Hussein Hazima, the head of Hezbollah's Intelligence Directorate, were killed along with other Hezbollah commanders," the army said in a statement. Hezbollah has not yet issued a statement regarding the CLAIM. On October 8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the military has "taken out" Safieddine, without specifically...

Hamas leadersIsmail Haniyeh. Hamas’s top political leader was assassinated on July 13 in Tehran while attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Although Israel did not officially claim responsibility for the attack, few hesitated to point to its foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad. Unlike other leaders of the fundamentalist militia, Haniyeh did not live in hiding; he primarily resided in Qatar, where he actively participated in various events. He was responsible for the group’s foreign relations and took part in negotiations for a ceasefire that ultimately was not reached. He had survived other attacks and had spent time...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the assassination but suspicion immediately fell on Israel, which has vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas over the group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw some 250 others taken hostage. Iran’s statement gave no details on how Haniyeh was killed. Iranian state television reported on his death early Wednesday, and analysts immediately began blaming Israel for the attack. Israel itself did not immediately comment but it often doesn’t when...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday became a candidate for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination, a shocking move that could give him enough votes to defeat Donald Trump or Joe Biden in November. Kennedy, who spoke at the convention Friday, was nominated by a delegate on the convention floor on Sunday to be the party's White House standard barrier. Kennedy's candidacy was met with boos from other delegates. His candidacy was short-lived, however. He was eliminated from contention several hours later, after the first round of voting, having receiving support from 19 delegates, just 2.07% of the vote. There was...

The IDF attacked targets of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip overnight Wednesday. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said, “A short while ago, IDF fighter jets targeted Ali Ghali, the commander of the rocket launching force of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, who was in a hideout apartment in Khan Yunis.” Reports were received regarding two additional Islamic Jihad terrorist organization operatives who stayed with him in the hideout apartment who were also targeted. Ghali was entrusted with the instruction and the launching of rocket fire toward Israel, including the recent barrage of rockets...

Border Police officer “B,” who was wounded this morning, Wednesday, in a terror attack at the Kiosk checkpoint in the Ma'aleh Adumim area and is now hospitalized, recounted the incident. "During the guard shift, a vehicle drove up and rammed into me. While I was on the ground I saw the terrorist get out of the vehicle. I tried to get away from him and took him to a place where my comrades could open fire and neutralize him," B related. Although the officer was taken by surprise by the terrorist, he was still able to repel the terrorist and...

The saints tell us that the Catholic Church is the soul of the world. Above all what sustains the Church is the Most Holy Eucharist (Vat. II: LG 11; CCC 1324). Even though the great majority of the baptized Catholics have lost their faith in the Eucharist, Satan knows very well what the Eucharist is and that it is the Eucharist above all which “restrains” Satan (2Thess 2:3-4). Satan already deprived the Protestants of the Eucharist 400 years ago, just as Satan did for many disciples of Jesus (Jn 6:66) 2000 years ago. Thus we are finally quickly arriving to...

Qualifying for the first Democratic presidential debate was the easy part. Now comes the challenge of preparing for it. With the debate in Miami less than a month away, at least a half-dozen major candidates have begun to block out time or lighten their schedules to prepare. On telephone calls and in conference rooms, advisers are peppering them with potential questions. The candidates are practicing tightening their answers, cognizant of the 7 to 10 minutes of total speaking time they expect to be allotted. And they are watching clips of the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates to familiarize themselves with...

Nancy Pelosi sits in a black-leather booth at Americana, a burger bistro in downtown Des Moines, radiating optimism. "We're in a very good place," she says of Democrats' odds in November. Special-election results suggest more than 100 seats in the House of Representatives are in play, and Democrats need less than two dozen to regain a majority. At the prospect of a victory that could check Trump's power – and, Pelosi expects, reinstall her as House speaker – she bangs a piece of cutlery, hard, on the table. "The gavel," she says. "The gavel makes all the difference in the...

CNBC: Cruz will make major announcement at 4PM

As we predicted on April 2nd…. As of today, April 26, 2016, Ted Cruz is mathematically eliminated from winning the Republican nomination outright. On April 2nd we predicted that Donald Trump would have 953 delegates as of today (needing only 284 delegates for the nomination) and that Cruz would have 550 delegates as of today (needing 687 to win the nomination). We also predicted that only 634 delegates would remain and therefore Cruz would need more delegates than would be available. Ted Cruz is eliminated. It is clear that Cruz was eliminated tonight. After winning all five primaries tonight —...

our Israelis have been injured in a car attack at Tapuach junction, along Route 60 in Samaria, just after 8:20 am Tuesday. Video Initial reports indicate that the terrorist arrived at a bus stop at the popular junction and began ramming his car into as many Israelis he could see. IDF and security forces neutralized the terrorist on-site. Magen David Adom (MDA) reports that four people - among them two IDF soldiers and a Border Policeman, all in their twenties - are suffering from light injuries; all are fully conscious. Two are ranking officers: a Lieutenant Colonel and a Colonel....

<p>Four young Israelis, including pregnant woman, injured in car attack in Samaria; two seriously injured. Terrorist eliminated.</p>

The leadership of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group in Syria and Iraq took a sharp blow on Thursday, as roughly 20 senior figures, including a top aide to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, were killed in airstrikes according to the Iraqi defense ministry. In airstrikes on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where IS began its blitz conquest of Iraq in June, Baghdadi's top aide was killed along with a senior IS military commander, Abu Alaa al-Iraqi, according to Iraqi sources cited by BBC. It remains unclear if the airstrike was conducted by local US-trained Iraqi forces,...