War & Conflict
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Key Players: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy and Its Role
TEHRAN, July 12 — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, a branch of Iran’s military established in 1979,…
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Israel Says It Killed IRGC Navy Chief Tangsiri, Who Led Strait of Hormuz Closure
TEHRAN, July 12 — Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy,…
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Iran Says Tankers Caught Fire in Strait of Hormuz as Qatari Mediators Return to Tehran
TEHRAN, July 12 — The term “Tanker War” sounds like something out of a history book, but for…
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IRGC Says Strait of Hormuz Will Stay Closed as US Strikes on Iran Continue
TEHRAN, April 18 — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz…
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Iran Orders Strait of Hormuz Fully Closed Again After Days of US Strikes
TEHRAN — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy has shut the Strait of Hormuz, a move that halts…
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Zelenskyy Orders New Long-Range Command Within Ukraine’s Armed Forces
KYIV, July 11 — The shift is quietly underway in Ukraine’s war strategy, and it is less about…
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Wagner Mutiny of 2023 Exposed Strains Around Putin, CIA Chief and Analysts Said
MOSCOW, July 11 — The shift is quiet but unmistakable inside the Kremlin’s inner circle. Vladimir Putin’s most…
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What Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Are and How They Operate Around Hormuz
TEHRAN, July 11 — For the families of sailors aboard commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the…
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Zelenskyy Claims Some in Putin’s Inner Circle Support Ending the War
KYIV, July 11 — Against the backdrop of a war now grinding through its third year, Ukrainian President…
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War’s Rising Death Toll: Ukraine Conflict Enters Third Year
KYIV, July 11 — The shift is stark. More than two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, the human…
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Ukraine’s Naval Drones: From the Sevastopol Raid to the Sinking of the Caesar Kunikov
KYIV, July 11 — When Ukrainian naval drones struck Russian warships in Sevastopol harbor on October 29, 2022,…
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Western Sanctions Did Not Crash Russia’s Economy, but Frozen Assets Remain Contested
The coordinated effort, launched immediately after the February 24, 2022 invasion, drew in the United States, the European…
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Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Refineries After Short-Lived Energy Ceasefire
KYIV, July 11 — The shift is becoming unmistakable: Ukraine has turned the targeting of Russian oil refineries…
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IRGC Navy declares Strait of Hormuz closed until the US ends regional intervention
MANAMA, July 11 — Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain, now…
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IRGC Navy’s Swarm Tactics Shape Iran’s Coastal Defense Strategy
WASHINGTON, July 11 — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, a force of an estimated 20,000 personnel operating…
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Russia Pulls Drone Units From Front to Guard Shadow Fleet, Ukrainian Commander Says
MOSCOW, July 11 — The shift in Russian naval strategy is becoming impossible to ignore. For decades, the…
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Ukraine Strikes Occupied Mariupol Port Russia Uses to Export Stolen Grain
MARIUPOL, July 11 — The Port of Mariupol, once a major hub for Ukraine’s industrial exports on the…
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Ukrainian Magura V5 Sea Drones Sink Russian Patrol Ship Sergei Kotov
MOSCOW, July 11 — Ukrainian forces have employed unmanned surface vehicles, commonly described as naval drones, against Russian…
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Russia Halts Azov Sea Commercial Shipping After Ukraine Drone Strikes
MOSCOW, July 11 — The shift is a stark one for global maritime trade. Russia has suspended all…
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Zelensky’s Trust Ratings Rose and Fell With the War, KIIS Polls Show
KYIV, July 11 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who took office on May 20, 2019, as the sixth…
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Ukrainian Drone Commander Says 300 Shadow Fleet Tankers Disabled in 11 Weeks
KYIV, July 11 — Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council since 2019, has…
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Ukraine Used Palianytsia and Peklo Drone-Missiles in Novorossiysk Naval Base Strike
KYIV, July 11 — Ukraine is quietly rewriting the economics of modern warfare. The math is straightforward: domestically…
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Zelenskyy Creates Long-Range Strike Command as Ukraine Hits Russian Fuel and Shipping
KYIV, July 11 — Against this backdrop of a grinding war that has reshaped the European security order,…
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Zelenskyy Says Some in Putin’s Circle Want War to End
KYIV, July 11 — Against this backdrop of grinding artillery duels and diplomatic stalemate, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…
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