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Tensions between the two Caucasus neighbours have remained high since Baku re-captured the Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh last September in a lightning military offensive.
“Our analysis shows that Azerbaijan wants to launch military action in some parts of the border with the prospect of turning military escalation into a full-scale war against Armenia,” Pashinyan said at a government meeting.
“This intention can be read in all statements and actions of Azerbaijan,” he added.
The attack came hours after an Israeli citizen was killed by a rocket fired from its northern neighbor
Israel said on Wednesday that it has begun a βseries of strikesβ in Lebanon, in a move that will likely elevate fears of a major military confrontation between the two neighbors following months of cross-border violence.
The Israeli military did not immediately offer further details of the airstrikes, which came hours after at least one Israeli citizen was killed and a further eight were injured in a rocket attack launched from Lebanon.
American officials claim the Boeing 747 aircraft previously belonged to a sanctioned Iranian airline
US authorities have taken custody of a Venezuelan cargo plane, claiming that it previously belonged to an Iranian airline allegedly affiliated with the Quds Force of the the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Caracas has slammed the move, claiming the transfer of its aircraft to the US was done in secret.
According to a statement from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) website on Monday, the American-manufactured jumbo jet was transferred to the US on February 11 by the government of Argentina, which had detained the aircraft back in 2022.
The former US president said he would refuse to defend members of the alliance who fail to pay their defense bills
Former US President Donald Trumpβs disparaging comments about NATO membersβ failure to meet their military spending commitments put the whole alliance at risk, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned in a statement on Sunday.
Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Saturday, Trump suggested that such countries should not receive US protection in the event of an attack.
Stoltenberg responded: βAnyΒ suggestion that allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security, including that of the US, and puts American and European soldiers at increased risk,βΒ reiterating that the bloc remainedΒ βready and able to defend all allies.βΒ
A multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) is a type of rocket artillery system that contains multiple launchers which are fixed to a single platform, and shoots its rocket ordnance in a fashion similar to a volley gun.
The North Korean Academy of Defense Science has developed a new guided shell and control system for multiple launch rocket systems, North Korean state-run news agency KCNA reported on Monday.
The academy has already conducted test firing of 240 mm shells to assess their accuracy, the report said.
A camera at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii has captured an object as it burned up on re-entering Earth’s atmosphere on 8 February.
The Subaru-Asahi Star Camera, owned by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, recorded a time-lapse of the fireball blazing across the night sky, followed by smaller glowing streaks.
It is thought it could be a Chinese satellite called Object K.
Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers conducted a planned flight over neutral waters of the Bering Sea near Alaska, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
“Two Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers of the long-range aviation of the Russian aerospace forces performed a planned flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Bering Sea, near the western coast of Alaska. The flight lasted over seven hours,” the ministry said in a statement.
The missile carriers were accompanied by Su-30SM jets, the ministry said.
Reaction to the interview among Washingtonβs elite has revealed the βmendacity of their approach,β Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said
The Biden administration and the US corporate media alike have whipped themselves up into an irrational frenzy over the interview that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave to conservative American journalist Tucker Carlson on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed. Earlier, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that professional jealousy had driven the hostile reaction from some of the reporterβs colleagues in the press.
The Former Fox News host became the first American media professional to interview the Russian head of state one-on-one since the Ukraine conflict flared up almost two years ago. The two-hour-long interview, which mostly centered on relations between Moscow and Kiev, garnered more than 46 million views on Carlsonβs X account (formerly Twitter) and just under a million views on YouTube in the first hours since its release on Friday.
