Barchart Predicts Record Corn & Soybean Yields While Prices Drop Barchart’s machine learning forecast models are predicting record corn yield, 189 bushels/acre, and record soybean yield, 54 bushels/acre. Barchart · Jul 17, 2024
Israel to ‘temporarily’ reopen north Gaza crossing for aid after Biden call The White House has said it could change its approach on Israel if aid is not increased, but hasn’t said exactly how. Al Jazeera · Apr 5, 2024
US launches strikes in response to attack that killed troops in Jordan US military struck more than 85 Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria after three US soldiers were killed on Sunday. Al Jazeera · Feb 2, 2024
IDF says it regrets killing of Lebanese soldier – as it happened This blog has now closed. Read our full report on the latest developments in Gaza here and our report on a UN meeting to hear accounts of sexual violence committed by Hamas on 7 October here. The Guardian - AU · Dec 5, 2023
Satellite photos analyzed by AP show an axis of Israeli push earlier this week into the Gaza Strip Israeli troops have pushed into the Gaza Strip’s largest city along a key coastal road on the Mediterranean Sea as part of their war on Hamas The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2023
Bahrain prisoners on hunger strike demanding better conditions Bahrain prison inmates are taking part in a hunger strike over conditions in Jaw prison, activists and authorities said. Al Jazeera · Aug 9, 2023
These 3 Stocks Have Had at Least 4 Quarters of Earnings Surprises. Earning season is about to end. What stocks can investors look at now? Barchart · May 24, 2023
US bombs unlikely to reach underground Iran nuclear site: Report New Iranian atomic facility near Natanz may be too deep underground to be destroyed by air raids, AP analysis says. Al Jazeera · May 22, 2023
Iran nuclear site deep underground challenges West as talks on reviving atomic deal have stalled Near a peak of the Zagros Mountains in central Iran, workers are building a nuclear facility so deep in the earth that it is likely beyond the range of a last-ditch U.S. weapon designed specifically for such sites The Independent UK · May 22, 2023
Satellite images show tankers Iran seized off Bandar Abbas Satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press show two oil tankers recently seized by Iran off the coast of one of its key port cities on the strategic Strait of Hormuz The Independent UK · May 7, 2023
Thousands flee Sudan capital following collapse of truce Thousands of residents fled Sudan’s capital Wednesday as fighting between the army and paramilitaries raged for a fifth day after a 24-hour truce collapsed. Roughly 200 people have already been killed. France 24 · Apr 19, 2023
Sudanese Flee Their Homes as Truce Fails, Fighting Rages Terrified Sudanese who have been trapped for days in their homes by fighting in the capital of Khartoum fled on Wednesday, hauling out whatever belongings they could carry and trying to get out of the city, after an internationally brokered truce failed. Explosions shook the city as the army and… Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 19, 2023
In photos: Mississippi town decimated by deadly tornado The rural towns of Silver City and Rolling Fork in the southwest and Amory in the northeast all sustained significant tornado damage. Axios · Mar 26, 2023
Israeli Strike Hits Near Syria's Aleppo Airport An Israeli air strike hit near Syria's Aleppo airport early Wednesday, causing "material damage" and shutting down operations there, Syrian officials said, while regional intelligence sources said the attack hit an Iranian arms depot. Israel has for years carried out attacks against what it has described as Iran-linked targets in… Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 22, 2023
Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 10, 2023 Syria’s Aleppo Airport Resumes Flights Days after Airstrike Flights at Syria’s international airport in Aleppo resumed Friday, three days after it was put out of service by a suspected Israeli airstrike, the country’s head of civil aviation said. Bassem Mansour told the pro-government Sham FM radio station that flights to and from the airport of Syria’s largest city…
Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 3, 2023 Satellite Photos: Damage at Iran Military Site Hit by Drones Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press on Friday showed damage done to what Iran describes as a military workshop attacked by Israeli drones, the latest such assault amid a shadow war between the two countries. While Iran has offered no explanation yet of what the workshop manufactured, the drone…
Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 17, 2022 Satellite Photos Show Damage at Iran Prison amid Protests A fire that burned through part of Iran's notorious Evin Prison damaged one of the largest buildings at the complex, according to satellite photos analyzed Monday, as authorities raised the death toll in the still-murky incident, saying at least eight prisoners were killed. What happened on Saturday night at the…
WEKU · Sep 11, 2022 The last reactor at Zaporizhzhia, Europe's largest nuclear power plant, has stopped Ukraine's atomic power operator said power lines had been restored to the Zaporizhzhia plant and that they were preparing the reactor to be cooled and transferred to a safer state.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 11, 2022 With Help from Hezbollah, Syrian Officers Arrested for ‘Collaborating with Israel’ The Syrian air and military intelligence kicked off a wide wave of arrests against regime officers in Damascus and Aleppo on charges of “collaborating with hostile parties”, revealed the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The crackdown was launched in early September. Sources said dozens of the detained were held on…
Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 10, 2022 Syria's Aleppo Airport Reopens after Israeli Strikes Syria's Aleppo airport reopened on Friday, with the first civilian flight landing in more than 72 hours, after repairs following an Israeli airstrike earlier this week. Damage to the main runway in Tuesday's raid had put the airport -- the country's second-largest -- out of service, but the transport ministry…
Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 7, 2022 New Israel Strikes Put Aleppo Airport Out of Service Israeli strikes hit Syria's Aleppo airport on Tuesday evening, damaging the runway and putting the facility out of service, the official SANA news agency said. It is the second reported Israeli strike on the airport in northern Syria in less than a week. "At around 8:16 pm (1716 GMT), the…
Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 3, 2022 Report: Assad Has Been Barring Iran from Retaliating to Israeli Raids on Syria for 3 Years Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been barring Iran for three years now from retaliating to Israeli raids on Syria to avert an escalation, reported Israel’s Haaretz. Assad reportedly made the order directly to Iran’s slain Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and it has largely held. Soleimani was killed in a…
Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 2, 2022 Israeli Attacks Squeeze Iranian Aerial Supplies to Syria, Sources Say Israel has intensified strikes on Syrian airports to disrupt Tehran's increasing use of aerial supply lines to deliver arms to allies in Syria and Lebanon including Hezbollah, regional diplomatic and intelligence sources told Reuters. Tehran has adopted air transport as a more reliable means of ferrying military equipment to its…
The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2022 Satellite image: Israel attack damaged Syrian airport runway An Israeli attack targeting a Syrian airport tore a hole in the runway and also damaged a nearby piece of tarmac and structure on the military side of the airfield
Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 18, 2022 Ship That Ukraine Alleges Has Stolen Grain Likely off Syria A Russian cargo ship that Ukraine alleges holds stolen grain from territory seized by Moscow appears to have reached the Syrian port of Tartus, according to satellite images analyzed Thursday by The Associated Press. The arrival of the SV Konstantin marks just the latest shipment of Ukrainian grain — whether…