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  • US bunker-buster bombs failed to destroy Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility: Report

    US bunker-buster bombs failed to destroy Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility: Report

    Maxar Satellite Imagery provides an overhead view of the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Facility in Iran. [Getty Images]

    US strikes on Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility “severely damaged” but did not destroy the underground complex, a senior American official told the New York Times on Sunday, Anadolu reports. The official, speaking anonymously, acknowledged that B-2 stealth bomber attacks using bunker-buster bombs failed to eliminate the “heavily fortified” facility despite causing significant damage. The US deployed six bunker-buster bombs against Fordo using B-2 bombers, while submarine-launched cruise missiles…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • Cambodia halts fuel and gas imports from Thailand as crisis simmers | Border Disputes News

    Cambodia halts fuel and gas imports from Thailand as crisis simmers | Border Disputes News

    Cambodia’s PM Hun Manet announced that the decision would take effect from midnight on Sunday.

    Cambodia has announced it will stop all fuel imports from its neighbour Thailand as relations have plunged to their lowest ebb in more than a decade after a Cambodian soldier was killed last month in a disputed area of the border.

    Prime Minister Hun Manet announced the decision on Sunday, posting on social media that it would take effect from midnight.

    Manet said energy companies would be able to…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • A child was injured by Israeli occupation forces' bullets in Beit Furik, east of Nablus.

    A child was injured by Israeli occupation forces' bullets in Beit Furik, east of Nablus.

    A child was injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets on …

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  • Iranian foreign minister – Middle East Monitor

    Iranian foreign minister – Middle East Monitor

    Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, during a press conference in Istanbul on Sunday, said the US has “crossed every red line” with the latest attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, warning that diplomacy may no longer be possible, Anadolu reports.

    The recent US strikes on Iran are an “outrageous, grave, and unprecedented violation of fundamental principles of the Charter of the UN and international law,” Araghchi said.

    “Iran condemns in the…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • Gaza death toll nears 56,000 amid Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians – Middle East Monitor

    Gaza death toll nears 56,000 amid Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians – Middle East Monitor

    At least 55,959 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Sunday, Anadolu reports.

    A ministry statement said that 51 bodies were brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, while 104 people were injured, taking the number of injuries to 131,242 in the Israeli onslaught.

    “Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.

    The Israeli…

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    News Source: www.middleeastmonitor.com

  • Trump Declares Iran Strike a Success, but US and Israeli Officials Say Fordo Site Not Destroyed

    Trump Declares Iran Strike a Success, but US and Israeli Officials Say Fordo Site Not Destroyed

    Washington (Quds News Network)- US President Donald Trump on Sunday said the US strike on Iran’s nuclear sites was a “complete success.” He claimed that the facilities were “completely and totally obliterated.”

    But US and Israeli military assessments offer a different view.

    A senior US official, cited by the New York Times, confirmed that the Fordo site, Iran’s most fortified nuclear facility, was not destroyed. However, he said it was “severely damaged” and taken…

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  • Gaza Health: 51 dead arrived at Gaza hospitals in the past 24 hours.

    Gaza Health: 51 dead arrived at Gaza hospitals in the past 24 hours.

    The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on …

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    News Source: www.alquds.com

  • Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,214 | Conflict News

    Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,214 | Conflict News

    Here are the key events on day 1,214 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

    Here is how things stand on Sunday, June 22:

     

    Fighting

    • Russia has struck several locations, including Chernihiv, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 20 over the past day, the Kyiv Independent has reported.
    • Ukraine has said it has evidence that Russia is preparing new military operations on European territory, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said on X.
    • Emergency workers have…

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    News Source: www.aljazeera.com

  • Iran vows retaliation after US strikes on nuclear sites

    Iran vows retaliation after US strikes on nuclear sites

    Aerial assaults raged between Iran and Israel early Monday, while Tehran vowed retaliation over the bunker-buster bombs American warplanes unleashed at the weekend on three nuclear sites.

    US President Donald Trump insisted the attack had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but other officials said it was too soon to determine how significantly Tehran’s nuclear programme had been impacted.

    As the world awaited Iran’s reply, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the bombing…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com

  • Iran threatens US bases in response to strikes on nuclear sites

    Iran threatens US bases in response to strikes on nuclear sites

    Iran on Sunday threatened US bases in the Middle East after massive air strikes that Washington said had destroyed Tehran’s nuclear program, though some officials cautioned that the extent of damage was unclear.

    International concern intensified that the unprecedented US attacks would deepen conflict in the Middle East after Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran earlier this month.

    Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said bases used by US…

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    News Source: www.al-monitor.com