TEL AVIV / GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli planes and tanks hit Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen missiles at southern Israel, his army said, as mediators struggled to work for peace at the fleeing border. Smoke rises after Israeli airstrike in Gaza Strip 28 …
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TAICHUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen promised Friday to defend the island with a “solid” air force when she launched a US-backed maintenance center for the island’s fleet of upgraded F-16s. fighters amid growing tensions between Taipei and Beijing. The aircraft of the Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF) flies …
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(Reuters) – US and China trade jibes as military tensions grow between the world’s two largest economies, with the US Secretary of Defense promising not to “give an inch” in the Pacific and China saying Washington risked the lives of soldiers. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper listens …
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WASHINGTON / LONDON (Reuters) – When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016, almost immediately, and with apparent pleasure, he set out to try to demolish Barack Obama’s carefully inherited foreign policy legacy. FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden accepts the nomination of the …
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CAMP TAJI, Iraq (Reuters) – Leading international coalition troops withdrew from the Taji military base in Iraq on Sunday, handing it over to Iraqi security forces, Reuters witnesses and the coalition said. The base, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, was the site of frequent Iranian-backed rocket attacks by …
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