06-11-2026, 06:01 AM
MIDDLE EAST
Quote:Israel struck several military targets in Iran on Sunday, hours after the Islamic Republic launched a barrage of missiles at the Jewish state.
The Israel Defense Forces said its air force struck targets “belonging to the Iranian terror regime” in western and central Iran in a statement on X Sunday evening.
Iran state media separately reported that explosions were heard in Tehran, Tabriz and Isfahan after Israel fired “air-launched ballistic missiles,” citing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Israeli military hit Iranian surface-to-surface missile launch sites and non-energy infrastructure, Israel’s ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said.
Nearly two hours later, the Israeli air force said it was intercepting a missile “from the direction of Yemen toward Israeli territory.”
A missile hasn’t been launched from Yemen at Israel since April 4 — just four days before the Pakistan-brokered cease-fire between the US and Iran went into effect.
Earlier, Iran fired at least 10 missiles at Israel, all of which were intercepted. Iranian officials claimed responsibility and asserted the attack was in response to Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon that morning.
Israel’s strike violated its delicate cease-fire with Lebanon. Both countries agreed to the US-brokered cease-fire last week, but Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah rejected it.
President Trump said he would talk Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out of conducting a retaliatory strike on Iran, telling the Financial Times that he’s still the one “calling the shots.”
“He won’t have any choice,” Trump said.
Israel, however, has insisted on maintaining its military presence in Lebanon despite US officials’ demands for de-escalation.
Quote:Iranian-backed Houthi rebels vowed on Monday to block any Israeli ship from sailing in the Red Sea – after the terror group claimed responsibility for unleashing a barrage of missiles on Central Israel.
Yahya Saree, the group’s spokesperson, claimed “sensitive targets belonging to the Israeli enemy in Jaffa” had been struck before announcing the blockade.
“We announce a complete ban on the enemy’s navigation in the Red Sea and consider any Israeli movement a military target for our forces,” he said.
The terror group says the attacks are in response to Israel striking Iran and Lebanon.
“We affirm that we will respond to escalation with escalation, and our military operations will intensify in accordance to the field developments, the battle, and in conjunction with the axis of Jihad and resistance,” Houthi leaders vowed.
“We will not stand idly by in the face of the unjust siege imposed on our people and the peoples of the axis of jihad and resistance in Palestine, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq.”
The Houthis have essentially closed the Bab el-Mandeb strait to Israeli vessels, known as the “Gate of Tears” in Arabic for its perilous navigation conditions.
It’s on the southern outlet of the Red Sea, situated between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea on the African coast.
It is one of the world’s most important routes for global seaborne commodity shipments, particularly crude oil and fuel from the Gulf bound for the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal or the SUMED pipeline on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, as well as commodities bound for Asia, including Russian oil.
An estimated 3.3 million barrels of oil pass through the strait daily.
If the strait is blocked, ships are forced to travel around the southern tip of Africa, known as the Cape of Good Hope, in order to reach Asia, which can add up to two weeks onto journeys.
Iran and Israel’s trading of retaliatory strikes marks the most serious escalation since the April cease-fire.
“The IDF completed a large-scale strike on strategic defense systems belonging to the Iranian terror regime,” Israeli defense forces said.
“Recently, defense systems were deployed across Iran to restore the regime’s capabilities degraded during Operation Roaring Lion. The strike led to the dismantling of these systems.”
Quote:Iran’s joint military command said Monday it was halting offensive operations against Israel after President Trump called for both sides to lay down their weapons in his first public comments since the Middle Eastern enemies traded attacks in the largest escalation of hostilities in more than two months.
The joint command warned that if Israel or its allies carried out any further “aggression and hostile acts,” including against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, “much more severe and crushing measures than before will follow.”
“Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting,’” Trump had written in a brief post on Truth Social after Iran sent three waves of missiles toward the Jewish state, while Israeli forces targeted truck-based surface-to-air launchers and petrochemical facilities inside the Islamic Republic.
There was no immediate word of any casualties in the most intense exchange since a cease-fire between the US and Iran took effect April 8.
Quote:Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday Israel would “hold fire” after President Trump called on the prime minister and Iran’s leadership to return to a cease-fire.
Netanyahu said the fighting “on the Iran front” had been contained — making clear that Hezbollah targets in Lebanon remain separate, which Iran has tried to link to the ongoing US-Israel-Iran cease-fire.
“If they [Iran] make a mistake and resume attacks we will respond powerfully,” Netanyahu said. “Israel has the right to defend itself and we implement it when needed.”
Earlier Monday, Trump told both Israel and Iran to stop “shooting” at each other in a post to Truth Social, adding in a separate post that a deal with Tehran is around the corner.
“Final negotiations on ‘Peace’ are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way,” he said. “The Blockade will remain in place, and in full force and effect, until a ‘Final Deal’ is reached. Things should move quickly.”
The Iranian joint military command was the first to announce it would lay down its weapons, but warned if Israel or its allies carried out any further “aggression and hostile acts” — including against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon — “much more severe and crushing measures than before will follow.”
But that Iranian-claimed extension of the cease-fire to Lebanon may cut short the current peace. Israel did not agree to stop fire on its neighbor to the north as Hezbollah has continued lobbing rockets at the Jewish state — and are already preparing for more attacks along that front.
Quote:President Trump explained early Tuesday why he has so far avoided a return to full-scale war with Iran — even after Iran downed a US military helicopter.
Speaking to reporters after the Monday night Knicks game and several hours after Iran downed a US military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz, the president claimed the crisis over the oil chokepoint would last far longer without a deal with Tehran.
“If we go and bomb — which we can do very easily if we want to — and we spend another two or three weeks bombing, they’ll have nothing left whatsoever,” he said. “But you won’t have the Strait open for months. If we do the bombing, a lot of people are going to be killed.”
“Who wants to do that? I don’t,” he added.
Still, Trump directed limited strikes on Iran in retaliation for its downing of the Apache helicopter — but US Central Command said they would be “proportional” to the attack.
“There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured,” he wrote. “Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”
The president last week said that despite his resistance to restarting the war, he would consider a return to striking Iran should Tehran strike and kill US troops.
Before Monday night, Iran had targeted US troops but had been unsuccessful in striking them since the April 8 cease-fire began.
Should he give up on diplomacy, Trump told ABC on Monday that Washington would have to help rebuild Iran after it wipes out “an entire infrastructure of a nation” — but that the US would receive half the country’s oil in exchange.
“Somebody’s going to have to build all that infrastructure, new bridges, new this, new that, new power plants,” he said. “They’re talking about a trillion dollars, probably more. That’s why we’ll probably get involved in rebuilding.”
Trump has repeatedly stated the US and Iran are close to a deal since April, when Iranian and American leaders held peace talks in Islamabad.
Quote:US military on Tuesday unleashed strikes against Iran in retaliation for its “unjustified” downing of an American military helicopter and its two pilots, US Central Command said Tuesday.
President Trump ordered the “proportional” strikes after determining Iran on Monday shot down a US Apache attack helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz, leaving a two-month-old cease-fire hanging by a thread.
Trump, however, signaled he wasn’t seeking a return to full-scale war and downplayed the helicopter attack — telling the Wall Street Journal that it “wasn’t a big deal” and “the pilot is fine.”
The military response also was billed as measured, with CENTCOM describing the Tuesday evening mission as “self-defense strikes.”
“CENTCOM forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a US Army Apache helicopter,” the combatant command said Tuesday.
”The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” it added, suggesting that the operation is limited and is not intended to spark a return to daily war with Tehran.
As the announcement was made, Trump told an ABC reporter over the phone that it was “very important to respond.”
“This is a response to what they did with our helicopter last night, and I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful, and that’s what this one is,” he said.
Minutes later, Iranian state media reported that a “projectile” had struck the Iranian port city of Sirik, which is near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.
The strikes, which were still underway as of 7 p.m. ET, targeted Iranian air defense systems and radar installations, a senior US defense official told Fox News.
Earlier Tuesday, a source familiar with US military planning said any strikes would likely target Iran’s coasts by the strait — particularly areas Tehran has stored or launched weapons from.
The operation was launched about four hours after Trump revealed the military had determined after an investigation that Tehran had shot down the helicopter, which was first reported as a “crash” with no cause immediately given.
“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”
Iran targets US bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain after Trump orders strikes near Strait of Hormuz
Quote:Iran attacked US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan with drones and missiles Wednesday in retaliation for American strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz, according to its Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The tit-for-tat strikes are among the biggest exchanges between the two warring countries since the pair agreed to a ceasefire in April and came after Iran shot down an American Apache helicopter Tuesday.
Nearly all of the Iranian missiles and drones were intercepted and there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries to US personnel or damage to US facilities, an anonymous US official confirmed to Reuters.
President Trump had vowed a “very strong, very powerful” response for the downed chopper, “and that’s what this one is,” Trump told ABC News on Tuesday.
The latest escalation threatens a potential deal between US and Iran to end the conflict, which just passed 100 days since the US-Israeli joint strikes on Feb. 28.
Trump claimed that Iran’s military had been “completely defeated,” in a Truth Social post early Wednesday morning — and blamed Iran for stalling negotiations.
“Iran is all talk and no action. The Bully of the Middle East is DEAD!!! They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!” the President wrote.
The latest US strikes targeted Iranian air defense, ground control stations and surveillance radar sites, according to the US military. They lasted around four hours and hit almost 20 Iranian targets, a US official said.
Tehran, in response, accused the US of repeatedly violating a ceasefire agreement.
Quote:President Trump said he is readying new strikes on Iranian infrastructure — after warning that the Islamic Republic will “have to pay the price” for taking “too long” to negotiate a peace deal.
The commander-in-chief said he is “getting close to ordering new strikes against Iranian power plants and bridges” in a phone call with Fox News’ chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Wednesday.
Trump also accused Iran in the phone call of “tapping the United States along when it comes to the negotiating process.”
It came as the president took to Truth Social to warn of retaliatory strikes against Iran following the shooting down of a US Apache helicopter on Monday near the Strait of Hormuz.
“They’ve taken too long to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them, now they will have to pay the price!!!” Trump wrote in a thunderous post Wednesday morning, after stating that the country’s military infrastructure and leadership were in disarray.
“Iran’s Military is a complete and total mess. Much of it, like their Navy and Air Force, doesn’t even exist anymore – They have been completely defeated. Iran is all talk and no action. The Bully of the Middle East is DEAD!!! ” he added.
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Trump said he ordered strikes overnight to target runways, radar systems and air defense sites that Iran has tried to rebuild during the recent cease-fire, according to Fox News.
US forces “took out about 55% of what they [Iran] were even able to rebuild,” the outlet said, citing Trump.
Iran responded Wednesday morning with drone and missile strikes targeting military bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait.
Up until Wednesday, the president had still said that efforts to reach a deal with Tehran were in their “final throes,” with a settlement possible in “two to three days.”
Quote:More than 2 million barrels of oil are transiting through the Strait of Hormuz every day despite the naval blockade of the critical passageway, experts said.
About 2.1 million barrels were snuck through the strait in the final two weeks of May, a steady supply that explains why oil markets have yet to suffer the type of shock expected when 15.6 million barrels are suddenly cut off, according to JPMorgan.
“Despite the ongoing naval blockade and the steep decline in commercial traffic, surprising volumes of crude and petroleum products still appear to be transiting the Strait,” Natasha Kaneva, JPMorgan’s head of global commodities strategy, wrote in a client note last week.
Jan Stuart, a global energy economist and strategist at investment bank Piper Sandler, said the 2.1 million barrels accounted for the ships that appeared to pay tolls to Iran for safe passage, CNN reported.
The Islamic Republic has created the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) to oversee a toll system through the waterway, with previous reports suggesting oil tankers could pay as much as $2 million to transit.
The PGSA claimed last week that at least 300 non-Iranian ships had applied for the program, with the majority of them being oil tankers bound for Asia despite warnings from the US and its blockade force in the Gulf of Oman.
An additional 900,000 barrels currently flowing through the Strait of Hormuz every day were also being transported through vessels opting to “go dark” in the waterway, Stuart added.
Nearly 900 tankers have passed through the Strait of Hormuz between March 1 and May 19, according to maritime data company Kpler.
At least 358 of those vessels did so while employing shadow fleet tactics to avoid detection, with the move gaining wider traction as the conflict in Iran continues.
Quote:The US military launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran Wednesday evening, hours after President Trump warned additional attacks on the Islamic Republic were coming to try and force Tehran to re-enter serious peace negotiations.
“U.S. Central Command [CENTCOM] forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran at the Commander in Chief’s direction,” the Tampa, Fla.-based combat command said in a statement on X.
“The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression.”
There were no immediate reports on specific targets, damage or casualties.
“We’ve hit them hard tonight,” Trump told Fox News’ Trey Yingst amid the airstrikes.
Asked what he’ll do if Tehran doesn’t make a deal, the president responded: “We’ll bomb the s–t out of them tomorrow.”
Trump also revealed he spoke with top Iranian officials in the Situation Room who begged him to stop bombing.
At least 49 Tomahawk missiles were fired by US forces at Iran, according to Trump, while fighter jets dropped additional bombs on the country.
The closest target to Tehran was about 40 miles outside the capital city, the president said.
Wednesday’s attacks came after the nations of Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait, all of which host US troops, came under Iranian fire. They also took place one day after an initial wave of strikes that followed the takedown of an Army helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz by an Iranian drone.
Hours earlier, the US military said it had fired on an oil tanker attempting to transport fuel from Iran in violation of its blockade on the country’s ports along the crucial waterway. Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesman, said an American aircraft fired “precision munitions” into the engine room of the Palau-flagged vessel M/T Settebello, making it the eighth merchant vessel disabled by US forces in waters off Iran.
India’s foreign ministry said three Indian sailors were missing after the Settebello was struck, while 21 others were rescued. Its statement did not mention the US military or the blockade.
Hawkins said American forces warned the crew before firing on the ship.
“We’re going to hit them again hard today,” Trump told reporters at the White House Wednesday afternoon before urging Iran to sign a peace deal that would include them giving up ambitions of acquiring a nuclear weapon.
“CENTCOM will be busy tonight because President Trump said we will be hitting Iran hard — and we will be,” War Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters in Florida.
“Iran has a chance to make a good deal, a great deal, to codify what they said they’ve been willing to do, and they haven’t been willing to do it,” he added.
Quote:June 9 — Iran’s soccer federation said on Tuesday its ticket allocation had been pulled just days before the World Cup starts, leaving supporters who had already made travel plans unable to attend their team’s matches.
The World Cup begins on Thursday, with Iran playing their first two Group G games in Los Angeles, against New Zealand on June 15 and Belgium on June 21, and then facing Egypt in Seattle on June 26.
In a statement, the Iranian federation said it had already begun the ticket sales process for the matches but could no longer provide them to fans.
“This is despite the fact that many Iranian football fans, relying on the officially announced process, had already made the necessary plans to attend the matches,” the FFIRI added in a statement.
“Depriving Iranian supporters of access to their lawful and official allocation of tickets is an action contrary to the spirit governing international competitions and the principle of equality among participating countries.
“This development raises serious questions about the interference of non-sporting and political considerations in the organization of the world’s biggest football event.”
Each participating federation at the World Cup receives eight percent of the tickets for each of their matches to be allocated to fans according to their own criteria.
‘Principles of neutrality’
The FFIRI did not say who had made the decision to withhold the tickets but urged FIFA, soccer’s governing body, to adhere to “the principles of neutrality, fairness, and established regulations” and called on it to prevent off-field issues from casting a shadow over the tournament.
FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Quote:A top Somalian referee who was set to officiate games at the World Cup has been blocked from entering the US over his alleged links to terrorist organizations.
Omar Abdulkadir Artan, 33, was interrogated by border officials at Miami International Airport for 11 hours Saturday, before he was held in a jail cell and forced to leave the country, according to The Athletic.
Customs and Border Protection officers claimed that Artan was blocked from entering the US over “vetting concerns.” On Tuesday, US officials said that the referee was barred due to an “association with suspected members of terror organizations.”
After landing in Florida, Artan was questioned over Somalian politics and the Al Shabaab terrorist organization, which US Africa Command described in 2022 as “the largest, wealthiest, and most lethal Al Qaeda affiliate.”
AFRICOM said the group “poses the greatest danger to US citizens and interests in East Africa and is a threat to the United States.”
Artan’s name is similar to that of a man who has links to the terror group, which is sanctioned by the US Treasury, the New York Times reported.
The referee, who was named Africa’s best referee in 2025, was quizzed if he had ever met anyone from the organization, which he denied.
Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House FIFA Task Force, previously said earlier Tuesday there was a “very good reason” why Artan was blocked from entering the US.
“While I can’t go into the derog on that I can tell you it was right decision by customs and border patrol and I support that decision,” Giuliani told the BBC.
“Anybody who’s communicating with bad actors… are not going to be admitted,” Giuliani told Sky News.
Last June, President Trump announced a blanket ban on citizens from Somalia entering the US. The nation was one of 12 countries initially included in the ban.
Quote:FIFA President Gianni Infantino defended World Cup ticket prices, saying Wednesday “if we are doing something wrong, everyone in North America is doing something wrong.”
FIFA priced tickets starting at $140 for the 48-nation, 104-game tournament that starts Thursday and priced regular seats up to $8,680 for the July 19 final in New Jersey. It raised prices for the final to $10,990 and then $32,970. After criticism, FIFA offered a small amount of $60 tickets to national federations for their regular supporters. He said Wednesday 130,000 tickets were offered at that price, out of 6 to 7 million total.
Infantino said the average ticket price was under $500 for the tournament and was comparable to other U.S. sports during their playoffs, a claim that while true for resale prices does not appear to be accurate for list prices. He said he was unconcerned about investigations by attorneys general in California, New Jersey, New York and Texas.
“We are very relaxed about it because before starting to sell 6.5 million or 7 million tickets we check what we do with the best lawyers,” he said. “We welcome every investigation.”
The NBA Finals have had wildly varied get-in prices, ranging from a minimum of about $500 for the first two games in San Antonio to about $10,000 for Game 3 in New York. Game 4 in New York was much less, dropping to about $4,000 on Wednesday.
The Stanley Cup Final this year between teams in Las Vegas and Raleigh, North Carolina, has included a get-in price of at least $600 for each of the first four games of the best-of-seven series.
Infantino says FIFA is powerless to get US entry for denied Somali referee
Infantino said it was “unfortunate” that Somali referee Omar Artan was denied entry to the U.S. and said people “should chill.”
He said FIFA cannot dictate to governments who to let into their countries, though it is working “behind the scenes.”
“We always try to make the situation as positive as possible and to find solutions,” he said. “Sometimes we manage, other times not.”
“We don’t live on the moon, we live on planet Earth,” he said.
He thinks FIFA deserves credit for ensuring Iran’s participation
Infantino praised FIFA for working through details that allow Iran to play in the tournament at a time the U.S. is at war with Iran. The Iranian team moved its training camp from the U.S. to Mexico and will fly to the U.S. before matches.
Quote:The Trump administration rejected Iran's accusation that the United States engineered the loss of World Cup ticket allocations for its fans, saying it does not control ticket sales and warning that it will not let the Iranian team exploit the tournament to slip extremists into the country.
The pushback came a day after Iran's football federation claimed its allotment of supporter tickets for three group-stage matches on U.S. soil had been pulled less than a week before kickoff.
"Despite claims by Iran's football federation, the United States does not allocate tickets for World Cup matches," an administration official told Newsweek on background. "Ticket distribution is managed by FIFA and the event organizers, not by the U.S. government."
The official said any limits on Iranian fans stem from existing law rather than a new or targeted measure.
"The current U.S. travel restrictions on Iranian nationals have been consistently applied and remain unchanged," the official said. "The United States has worked closely with relevant authorities and international partners to ensure Iranian players and essential team personnel could participate in the World Cup."
Iran World Cup Tickets: What FIFA and the State Department Say
Iran's football federation said Tuesday that FIFA had revoked the ticket allocation for its fans at the team's three World Cup games in the United States. Under FIFA rules, each of the 48 federations is entitled to 8 percent of stadium capacity per game to sell to its own supporters, adding up to several thousand tickets.
The federation said it had already begun selling those tickets before the allocation was withdrawn. It was unclear Tuesday how many tickets in Iran’s allocation were sold, if they live in their home country or are part of its diaspora including about 1 million people in the U.S.
"Depriving Iranian supporters of access to their lawful and official allocation of tickets is an action contrary to the spirit governing international competitions and the principle of equality among participating countries," the FFIRI said in a statement.
UKRAINE WAR
Quote:Ukraine’s army has recaptured more than 230 square miles of territory so far this year, Kyiv’s military chief confirmed Monday as momentum continues to shift against Russia’s more than four-year-old invasion.
Oleksandr Syrskyi said his forces have retaken several strips of land across the 800-mile front in the first five months of 2026, with about one-sixth of the territorial gains resulting from last month’s offensive.
May’s total gain of more than 38 square miles also marked Russia’s first net retreat since a major counter-offensive by Kyiv in 2023, according to DeepState, an independent Ukraine-based battlefield analyst group.
In total, Ukrainian forces struck more than 88,000 Russian military targets in May, killing more than 30,000 soldiers and causing more than $1 billion in damage to Moscow’s military-industrial complex, Syrskyi added.
Syrskyi added that the fighting remains most intense in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia has struggled to make significant advances for nearly two years.
The military chief also singled out the village of Oleksandrivka in the Kherson region and the city of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region as areas along the front line where the heaviest fighting was taking place.
Meanwhile, Syrskyi said that despite expert consensus that the city of Pokrovsk fell last year to Russia following an intense campaign lasting nearly two years, Kyiv’s soldiers are still fighting inside the logistical hub.
While the real-time state of the battlefield remains difficult to track due to the intensity of the war, Ukraine’s reported victories line up with analysis from the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which found that Kyiv was “actively challenging the positional character of the war” as of the end of May.
The think tank specifically cited Ukraine’s ability to deploy drones to disrupt Russia’s supply chain and troop movement along the front as some of the keys to hindering Moscow’s advance.
Quote:Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is hoping for a Hail Mary winter offensive against Ukraine, experts said — as Russia’s economy is in a death spiral and the war-mongering leader is growing increasingly desperate.
After a lackluster spring offensive left Russia losing more territory than it conquered for the first time in three years, the Kremlin is now likely eyeing a large-scale assault come winter to inflict maximum damage on Ukraine, Maria Snegovaya, a senior fellow with the CSIS think tank’s Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, told The Post.
“Putin will wait for the winter again to resume the large-scale strikes and create a humanitarian crisis to get concessions in the Donbas issue,” Snegovaya said, referencing the region Russia has failed to completely conquer for more than four years.
The expert warned that the strikes would be even larger than last winter’s, when Russia fired a record number of drones and missiles daily against critical civilian infrastructure.
Russia will also likely expand its attacks further by targeting Ukrainian railways to disrupt supply lines and attacking water infrastructure, added Kateryna Stepanenko, the Russia team lead and deputy director of the Cognitive Warfare Project at the Institute for the Study of War think tank.
Snegovaya, who was in Ukraine last month, said the brutal winter was still at the forefront of the minds of the average Ukrainian citizen — with Putin likely wanting to tap into that terror in a desperate attempt to get himself out of his current situation.
Putin is facing increased pressure inside Russia over the country’s plummeting economy and internet outages, which experts say could be a prelude to panicked actions by the Kremlin.
The Kremlin war machine is also facing rapidly dropping recruitment rates as the war rages on.
Quote:Russia is allegedly recruiting young Ukrainian women, including teenagers, to carry out assassinations against service members in honeypot traps, Ukraine’s top cop said.
National police chief Ivan Vyhivskyi said there have been at least six cases of contract killings arranged on Telegram between Russian operatives and Ukrainian women so far, including one involving a 17-year-old suspect, local Cenzor.NET reported.
“We are talking about planned murders organized by the special services of the aggressor state and carried out by Ukrainian citizens,” Vyhivskyi said, adding that only one of the assassination cases was prevented.
The operations allegedly begin with Russian recruiters scouting young women on messaging platforms, promising them easy money and coordinating their actions remotely, the police chief said.
The young women are specifically asked to go on adult dating websites and search for Ukrainian military personnel, with Russia providing them money to rent apartments for the deed.
Before the meetup, the women are instructed on where they can get methadone, a synthetic opioid used as a painkiller that can be lethal in high doses, Vyhivskyi added.
The women are also coached on how to lace the servicemen’s drinks with the poison during the meetup.
One such case was reported last week when police found a 27-year-old soldier dead in a residence in the Zhytomyr region, with a powdery substance found in his dishware, according to the national police.
A 17-year-old girl from Berdychiv was arrested in connection with the murder on June 4, telling police she was instructed to poison the man at the instructions of a suspected Russian security services agent over Telegram.
The girl added that she had received a parcel of a clear substance, likely methadone, to carry out the assassination, police added.
The suspect allegedly put the methadone into an alcoholic drink for the serviceman, with the girl leaving the residence after the soldier fell unconscious and died, authorities said.
Ukraine and Russia have previously accused each other of recruiting each other’s citizens to carry out target assassinations against servicemembers through the war.
USA
Quote:Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has cracked down on YouTubers in the Tucson, Arizona, neighborhood of missing person Nancy Guthrie following complaints from neighbors, arresting three people on Monday.
A spokesperson for the Pima County Sheriff’s Department told Newsweek that it has "received numerous complaints about individuals blocking roadways, trespassing and disrupting the peace in the neighborhood. Deputies initially issued warnings, followed by the posting of no-trespassing signs and the issuance of citations for violations. Despite those efforts, some individuals continued to disregard the law."
The spokesperson added: "After reviewing video evidence showing one of the arrestees urinating in public behind a makeshift tent, Sheriff Chris Nanos has directed deputies to take a stronger enforcement approach."
Alexander Zabel Jr., 54, who runs the "Criminal Network” page on YouTube, was arrested and charged with two counts of obstruction of a highway or public thoroughfare and one count of public nuisance, the sheriff's department said. His YouTube account later shared a clip of the station's report.
Troy Bradshaw, 34, who runs the "DAA JUICE" page, was charged with one count of public nuisance. A post on the “DAA JUICE” X account early Tuesday said he had been subsequently released on bail.
Damien Todd Enderle, a 46-year-old man who helps run local crime blog 857 Tucson, was charged with one count of public nuisance, the sheriff's department said. He was cited and release.
He said he and the other YouTubers were not being a public nuisance in a YouTube livestream on Monday night.
"The officer told me, 'I don't want to arrest you. You're not doing anything. I have to give you a ticket,'" he said. "He said, 'if you sign here, I don't have to take you into jail.'... So I signed the paper. He gave me a charge for public nuisance."
EUROPE
Quote:The man who was repeatedly stabbed in a sickening, caught-on-camera attack that sparked riots in Northern Ireland lost his left eye in the near-beheading – as the Sudanese suspect was identified for the first time as he appeared in court Wednesday.
Stephen Ogilvie, thought to be 44, suffered injuries to both eyes after Sudanese migrant Hadi Alodid, 30, allegedly tried to behead him late Monday night, the Sun reported.
Barbaric video footage showed Ogilvie being pinned under the knifeman — with a horrified witness heard crying, “He’s trying to cut his head off. He’s slicing his head off.”
Ogilvie suffered serious injuries to his right eye and had deep slash wounds in his head, face and back, the hearing in Belfast was told.
Alodid was identified for the first time as he appeared in court Wednesday on charges of attempted murder and possessing a blade.
He was arrested minutes after the assault — and allegedly told emergency services, “I have killed someone. I don’t know if they are dead.”
The migrant — who reportedly exploited a legal loophole to get into the UK — is also accused of threatening to kill a radiographer on the same day as Monday’s attack, the hearing was told.
“I will kill you,” Alodid allegedly told the radiographer.
Alodid appeared on video and stayed silent during the hearing. He was denied bail and will next appear in court on July 8.
Police “strongly” opposed bail and a detective warned that potential future offenses could be “serious and unpredictable in nature.”
Judge Stephen Keown said the risks of granting Alodid bail were “far too great” due to the risks of reoffending and harm to the public.
The judge also noted that Alodid could be a flight risk. The migrant entered the UK via the Common Travel Area — an open-border zone which allows British and Irish citizens to travel freely.
The stabbing sparked anti-immigration protests, which developed into riots across Northern Ireland Tuesday night – with masked yobs hurling petrol bombs at cops and setting homes and cars alight.
Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s First Minister, said “groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice,” branding it “outright thuggery.”
Two officers were injured amid the disorder, Jon Boutcher, Northern Ireland’s chief constable revealed in a press conference Wednesday, branding the protests an “act of self-harm.”
Quote:Anti-immigration protests erupted into riots in Northern Ireland on Tuesday after a Sudanese migrant’s shockingly barbaric knife attack — with masked demonstrators breaking windows, setting homes on fire, and torching buses.
Tensions flared after a 30-year-old asylum seeker from Sudan, who was charged with attempted murder, allegedly tried to behead a man in Belfast on Monday night, disturbing video shows.
The bloodied victim desperately kicked his legs before the maniac repeatedly stabbed him in the head and neck, the video shared by Turning Point UK shows.
“Get off him, you f–king rat!” one woman shouted as the deranged attacker showed off his weapon — while a man yelled, “He’s trying to cut his head off. He’s slicing his head off.”
Other horrified locals rushed to intervene, including one who clobbered the attacker with a stick.
The victim, an unidentified local man in his 40s, was left with significant injuries to his eyes and serious slash wounds to his back and face, police said of the “brutal” assault.
Far-right activists on social media called for mass immigration demonstrations following the heinous knifing.
Crowds of agitated protesters, including masked men, hijacked vehicles, torched homes, police cars and vandalized businesses across Belfast, the BBC reported.
Emergency responders swarmed the city after demonstrators smashed doors and set fire to several homes off Crumlin Road in northern and eastern Belfast — displacing longtime residents and filling the air with thick, black smoke, the outlet reported.
Masked demonstrators smashed windows and kicked down doors while yelling they were “getting the foreigners out.”
Wild photos captured a Glider bus engulfed in flames and billowing smoke after it was hijacked and torched.
Northern Ireland’s first minister, Michelle O’Neill, blasted the destruction as “outright thuggery.”
“Groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice,” O’Neill wrote on X. “This has nothing to do with community. This is outright thuggery.
“The attack in North Belfast was heinous and wrong. But there are dangerous attempts to exploit that to target and attack innocent people who are simply trying to live, work, and raise their families here.”
The motive for Monday’s horrific attack remains unclear, but police so far have “no information to suggest that this was a terrorist-related incident,” Ryan Henderson, the assistant chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said in a press conference Tuesday.
The suspect was living in the UK “under a five-year visa,” Gavin Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party leader, told the House of Commons — calling for him to be “convicted and deported on the first flight out.”
SpaceX founder Elon Musk also posted on X that “Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!” in response to a list of scheduled demonstrations posted by far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson.
LATIN AMERICA
Quote:Peru’s presidential race between right-wing Keiko Fujimori and left-wing Roberto Sánchez is still extremely close with 97 percent of the votes counted, so much so that ballots cast overseas—especially in Florida—could give one of the candidates the winning edge.
As of Wednesday morning, Sánchez was slightly ahead with 50.05 percent of the vote, while Fujimori had 49.94 percent. The left winger’s modest lead, however, could be quickly reversed once all the votes from the Peruvian diaspora are counted, as a majority of voters overseas support Fujimori.
“It could happen (unprecedented in our history) that Roberto Sánchez receives more votes in national territory but loses the election, because in the total (including votes from abroad), Keiko Fujimori surpasses him,” political analyst Jeffrey Radzinsky wrote on X.
“It’s a scenario, just that, we have to wait for the count and respect the results.”
What Vote Counting Can Tell Us So Far
According to Peru’s National Office of Electoral Process (ONPE), 62.5 percent of the vote from Peruvian living abroad has gone in support of Fujimori (132,004 votes), while only 37.5 percent has been cast for Sánchez (79,327).
More than 1.2 million Peruvians living abroad were eligible to vote in the June 7 presidential election’s second round, according to the Latin Times.
Among voters living in the United States, which has the highest number of Peruvians voting from outside Peru, Fujimori’s dominance is even starker. An overwhelming majority of the votes coming from the country was cast for Fujimori, at 76.56 percent, while Sánchez got only 23.43 percent.
At the state level, the vast majority of votes from the United States are coming from Florida, which is home to the largest Peruvian-American population anywhere in the United States.
Quote:Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has addressed accusations that his party plans to cut Social Security and other federal programs.
Following Johnson’s appearance on the Moon Griffon Show on June 8, Democrats accused him of planning cuts to entitlement and benefit programs, while Johnson said Republican efforts are focused on strengthening oversight and addressing what he described as "autopilot" spending.
The Trump administration is intensifying its focus on reducing federal spending and rooting out what it describes as widespread waste, fraud and abuse across government benefit programs.
What Johnson Said
In a clip from the interview posted on X, formerly Twitter, Johnson said: "The largest spending items, the reason we're in trouble is because over 74 percent of federal spending is on autopilot—mandatory spending, that is your entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and things like Social Security—they have to be adjusted and fixed.
"We have a plan to do that next year, and it's critical, because we're at $40 trillion plus in debt. At some point you get into a hole so deep you can't climb out of it, so desperate times call for desperate measures."
The comments quickly drew criticism from Democrats, who argued Johnson was signaling future reductions to major entitlement programs.
Democrats Accuse GOP of Targeting Benefits
Responding to the clip, Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, wrote on X: "Mike Johnson says Republicans have a plan to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—after already passing the largest healthcare cut in history.
"Higher costs, less healthcare. That’s what Republicans are running on this November."
The exchange reflects a longstanding political divide over entitlement spending, with Democrats warning that Republican reforms could reduce benefits while Republicans argue changes are needed to improve efficiency and strengthen program finances.
Johnson's Response
The Republican rejected the criticism and accused Democrats and news organizations of misrepresenting his remarks.
"Once again, Democrats and the media are fearmongering," Johnson wrote in a post on X.
"Everyone knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is rampant waste, fraud, and abuse throughout government programs. Just today, the @GOPoversight released a report that Tim Walz’s failures in Minnesota cost the taxpayer potentially $9 billion in Medicaid-related funds and roughly $300 million in federal child nutrition funds."
Quote:The Trump administration on Wednesday escalated its global crackdown on “birth tourism,” with the State Department detailing a series of enforcement actions targeting foreign nationals accused of using U.S. visitor visas to secure citizenship for their children.
In a series of posts on X, the State Department said it is “defending the integrity of U.S. citizenship” by shutting down networks that help pregnant travelers enter the United States under false pretenses, warning that visas will be denied or revoked if childbirth is the primary purpose of travel.
The posts outlining more than 600 cases underscore a broader immigration push that has intensified scrutiny of visa applicants worldwide, particularly those suspected of misrepresenting their intent during consular interviews.
The announcement comes as the Trump administration has also tightened scrutiny across other visa programs, including H‑1B visas, as part of a broader effort to curb what officials describe as fraud and misuse in the immigration system.
Newsweek reached out to the State Department through its online portal on Wednesday for comment.
Dr. John C. Eastman of The Claremont Institute, who has advocated for changes to birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, told Newsweek that the cases outlined make an argument for the changes made by the administration.
"The State Department’s recent exposé and revocation of fraudulent visas is further evidence of the need for President Trump’s Executive Order, correcting the misunderstanding of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause, which was never intended to apply to temporary or illegal visitors to this Country," Eastman said.
"The birth tourism scam may be the most high-profile abuse, but the problem is much larger, and unless fixed, our very sovereignty and 'consent of the governed' cornerstone principle will be at risk."
David Bier, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, told Newsweek on Wednesday: "This is nothing new, and it should have no effect on the birthright citizenship debate."
ASIA
Quote:Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged greater trade with North Korea and more high-level meetings with its leader, Kim Jong Un, both significant wins for the ruler of one of the world’s most isolated regimes.
Xi made the remarks during summit talks in Pyongyang on Monday, state media reported, as part of his first official trip to China's neighbor in seven years. He promised to "open up a new future" of relations between the two countries.
Kim appears to be benefiting from a quiet contest for influence over Pyongyang between Xi and President Vladimir Putin of Russia. President Donald Trump may also be seeking an audience at a time of global instability.
Officially, Xi’s trip marked the 65th anniversary of China and North Korea’s mutual defense treaty, but Pyongyang now has more than one ally.
Russia has deepened its diplomatic and defense ties with North Korea in recent years, including through the signing of a new security pact in June 2024, which formalized North Korean aid in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Last month, North Korea sent soldiers to march alongside Russian troops for the first time in the annual Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square.
The timing of Xi’s visit is linked to Kim and Putin’s ties, said Christopher Green, a senior consultant with the International Crisis Group.
China tolerates mutually beneficial economic and political ties between Moscow and Pyongyang but "will not allow a situation where it is no longer indispensable to North Korea, because keeping the Kim regime close is part of Beijing's national security calculus," Green told Newsweek.
What Kim Gets From China
China shares a land border with North Korea and has long been its largest trading partner and main lifeline to buffer international sanctions targeting its ballistic and nuclear missile programs.
Monthly two-way trade exceeded $325 million in April, the highest level since November 2017, according to Chinese custom data.
Quote:Philippine authorities have released images of structures at a disputed reef they believe were placed there by China.
The number of newly identified foreign objects has grown to six since the first structure was reported inside Scarborough Shoal's lagoon on May 30, a Philippine coast guard spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Scarborough Shoal—known as Bajo de Masinloc in the Philippines and Huangyan Island in China—is one of the most sensitive flashpoints in the South China Sea dispute.
Beijing has exercised de facto control over the feature since a tense standoff in 2012, but has so far not physically occupied it.
"We flew planes over Bajo de Masinloc, or Scarborough Shoal, to see what structures are being built there—whether it's a floating structure or a fixed structure," Philippine military chief Romeo Brawner Jr. told reporters Tuesday in Quezon City. "We will also send ships."
The newly identified objects under investigation by Manila include an antenna mounted atop a rock near the lagoon entrance, a second suspected antenna, a floating structure, an unidentified cylindrical object and three buoys, adding to two that were discovered there in October.
Another object—a mobile, makeshift structure estimated to measure roughly 20 by 20 feet and carrying six occupants—is also being monitored, Brawner said.
Quote:Beijing has in recent months become increasingly vocal in its campaign against Japan's push to strengthen its defense posture and position itself as a more active security partner in the Indo-Pacific.
'Remilitarization'
Chinese military officials have characterized the security push as "remilitarization" in defiance of its pacifist postwar constitution, pointing to a series of defense initiatives, including deeper cooperation with other key United States allies and partners in the region.
At the root of the current chill in China-Japan ties was Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's November remark that a Chinese attack on—or blockade of—Taiwan could constitute a "survival-threatening situation," a legal threshold that would permit the Japan Self-Defense Forces to use force alongside an ally, such as a hypothetical U.S. task force.
China demanded a retraction and responded with a range of retaliatory measures, from reductions in some Japan-bound flights by major Chinese airlines to curbs on rare-earth exports that Beijing says are intended to prevent strategically sensitive materials from reaching foreign defense industries.
Newsweek reached out to the Chinese and Japanese Foreign Ministries via email for comment.
Pacifist?
Japan's postwar constitution prohibits maintaining traditional military forces designed for offensive warfare and renounces war as a sovereign right.
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought a larger security role for Japan amid China's rapid military buildup, rising pressure on Taiwan and escalating tensions over disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Abe reinterpreted Article 9 to permit limited collective self-defense, established a National Security Council and eased long-standing restrictions on defense exports.
Buoyed by a historic supermajority in the House of Representatives, Takaichi has sought to build on her mentor's legacy. In February, her government approved limited exports of lethal weapons to partner countries for the first time, albeit under strict end-use restrictions.
Tokyo also reached its goal of raising defense spending to 2 percent of GDP ahead of schedule and has pressed ahead with plans to reinforce remote islands along Japan's southwestern frontier.
Japan's Defense Ministry said Monday it had begun shipping a Type 12 surface-to-ship missile launcher to Minamitorishima, Japan's easternmost island. Earlier this year, the ministry also confirmed plans to deploy Chu-SAM surface-to-air missile units on Yonaguni, just 70 miles from Taiwan, a move Beijing denounced as "extremely dangerous."
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on May 31 said defense authorities play a "crucial role" in maintaining a "free and open Indo-Pacific"—the strategic concept first championed by Abe.
"Military buildups and actions without clear intentions will be the cause of distrust and miscalculation," he stated, in a thinly veiled criticism of China.
Countries should pool their capabilities to build "effective deterrence and response capabilities" through joint training, intelligence sharing, technology cooperation and defense-industrial collaboration, he said during a forum at the Shangri-La Dialogue, the annual defense summit hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore.
Philippine-Japan Alignment
Few relationships better illustrate Japan's expanding security role than its deepening partnership with the Philippines. Both countries are treaty allies of the United States and face growing pressure from China's expanding maritime presence in nearby waters.
Quote:Vietnam is set to become the second foreign buyer of India's BrahMos cruise missile, a move analysts say underscores a reality shaping security calculations across Asia: warmer ties with Beijing have not erased concerns about China's growing military power.
The deal, long rumored but not officially confirmed, was acknowledged by Indian Defense Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh on May 30 during the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore. Singh also said a similar deal with Indonesia is nearing completion.
China is Vietnam's largest trading partner, and the two countries have worked to improve relations in recent years. Yet Hanoi remains wary of Beijing's expanding military capabilities and maritime ambitions, particularly in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
The deal also represents another success for India's efforts to expand its defense partnerships across Southeast Asia as part of its broader "Act East" strategy.
Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi and Vietnam's Foreign Ministry by email with requests for comment.
A Supersonic Upgrade
Co-developed by India and Russia, the BrahMos is widely regarded as one of the world's fastest operational cruise missiles.
The export version has a range of roughly 180 miles and can travel at nearly three times the speed of sound, making it significantly more difficult to intercept than conventional subsonic missiles.
Vietnam is expected to acquire a shore-based version of the system, which would strengthen its ability to target hostile naval vessels operating near its coastline.
"The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile is unparalleled in its segment, be it speed, stealth or accuracy. It is already successfully integrated into the land, ship, air and submarine-based platforms of the Indian armed forces, making it a tried and tested missile," Commodore (Ret.) Seshadri Vasan, director general of the Chennai Centre for China Studies, told Russia's state-owned Sputnik news agency.
The Philippines became the first foreign operator of the BrahMos system after taking delivery of the initial components and the first batch of missiles in 2024.
The U.S. treaty ally is in the midst of a $35 billion military modernization push, driven in large part by a bitter territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea.
Quote:Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has hailed a "historic victory" in parliamentary elections, which are considered a test of his party's ability to move the former Soviet republic away from Russia's influence.
U.S. President Donald Trump had endorsed Pashinyan ahead of Sunday's ballot amid allegations of interference by Moscow, with Russian President Vladimir Putin comparing its European Union ambitions to the scenario that triggered his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In a post on Truth Social last month, Trump expressed his “complete and total endorsement for re-election” of Pashinyan, the first time a U.S. president has publicly backed a candidate in a country considered part of Russia’s backyard, following a peace and trade deal signed with the incumbent Armenian premier.
Putin is likely to view the result with concern as Pashinyan seeks closer ties with the EU, a peace agreement with Baku and the normalization of relations with Turkey.
"Russia is concerned about Armenia coming too close to the EU," Fabienne Hara, the Europe program director at the International Crisis Group, told Newsweek on Monday. "There's a shift in foreign policy of Armenia in which they are trying to diversify their partners."
The Nagorno-Karabakh Influence
Sunday's ballot was the first election since Armenia’s loss of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan in 2023, which ended more than three decades of Armenian control over the disputed region that is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan.
When Russia failed to come to Armenia's aid after Baku seized Nagorno-Karabakh, Pashinyan suspended Yerevan's participation in the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), marking its biggest move away from Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union and pivot toward the European Union and NATO.
On Sunday, Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract party won just under half (49. 8 percent) of the votes. This was less than the 54 percent it got in 2021's ballot, but ahead of the main pro-Russian groups Strong Armenia and Armenia Alliance, which got a better-than-expected total of 31 percent, and so are on track to enter parliament.
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