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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: 'Machine-gun with AI' used to kill Iran scientist

A satellite-controlled machine-gun with "artificial intelligence" was used to kill Iran's top nuclear scientist, a Revolutionary Guards commander says. ...

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Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Iran blames Israel for killing top scientist

Iran's president has blamed Israel for the killing of a top nuclear scientist on Friday, and said it would not slow down the country's nuclear programme. ...

8 pro-Iran fighters killed in Israel raid on Syria sites

Eight fighters in pro-Iran militias were killed in an Israeli raid on military sites located in the Jabal Al-Mane area in southern Damascus yesterday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ...

Turkey court jails hundreds for life for 2016 coup plot against Erdogan

A court in Turkey has given life sentences to 337 military officers and others, in one of the biggest trials linked to the 2016 coup attempt. ...

US to sanction entities linked to Iran's missile program

US Special envoy for Iran Elliott Abrams says US will impose sanctions on Wednesday on four entities, accusing them of promoting Iran's missile program. ...

Minister: 90% of Daesh operations caused by Iraq security negligence

Some 90 per cent of Daesh's military operations in Iraq took place because of the negligence of the security and military forces, Defence Minister Juma Enad said. ...

German defense minister rejects Turkey complaint over Libya weapons ship search

Germany’s defense minister on Tuesday rejected Turkey’s complaints over the search of a Turkish freighter in the Mediterranean Sea by a German frigate participating in a European mission, insisting that German sailors acted correctly. ...

Kurdish and Turkey-backed fighters clash in Syria, 11 killed

Clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed opposition gunmen in northern Syria left at least 11 fighters dead in some of the most intense fighting in weeks between the two sides, an opposition war monitor and a Kurdish spokesman said Tuesday. ...

Lebanon's president pledges to revive forensic audit of central bank

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that a forensic audit of the central bank was vital to combat corruption and that he would put it back on track following the withdrawal of the consultancy hired to do the audit, Reuters reports. ...

Lebanon inmates break doors and die in car crash after jail-break

Five prisoners have died when their getaway car hit a tree after a mass jail-break in Lebanon. ...

Lebanon: German company to dispose of Beirut port hazardous material

The Lebanese army announced yesterday that an agreement had been signed with Germany's Combi Lift company to handle and dispose of 52 containers containing dangerous materials from Beirut port. ...

Poverty in Iraq's Basra rises to record 40%

The Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) has warned that the Iraqi city and governorate of Basra is suffering from an increasingly high poverty rate, with almost 40 per cent of residents now living below the poverty line. ...

Pompeo makes unprecedented visits to Israeli settlement in West Bank and Golan

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has toured a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank - the first such visit by a top US official. ...

Israel strikes 'Iranian military sites' in Syria after bombs found in Golan

Israel's military says it launched air strikes against Iranian and Syrian military targets in Syria overnight, after explosive devices were found in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. ...

Rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone kills child

Rockets struck Iraq's capital Tuesday with four landing inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraq’s military said, killing a child and wounding at least five people, signaling an end to an informal truce announced by Iran-backed militias in October. ...