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The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft strike group, deployed to the Mediterranean Sea by the Pentagon to deter attacks by Iran-backed groups, will be pulled in the coming days, according to an ABC News report.Rina Bassist, Ezgi Akin, Beatrice Farhat, Elizabeth Hagedorn, Adam Lucente, Jack Dutton, Jared Szuba and Al-Monitor’s contributors on the ground in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel contributed to this blog.
Just hours before Nasrallah’s speech, two explosions rocked Iran's south-central city of Kerman near the cemetery where former Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani is buried.
For the second time this month, the Biden administration has used an emergency authority that allows it to bypass traditional congressional review for the sale of weapons to Israel.Rina Bassist, Ezgi Akin, Beatrice Farhat, Elizabeth Hagedorn, Adam Lucente, Jack Dutton, Jared Szuba and Al-Monitor’s contributors on the ground in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel contributed to this blog.
December 2023 Al-Monitor Trend Report 2,247 words The curtain has closed at COP28 in Dubai after delivering a historic global agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels, but the UAE continues pumping out dealmaking shaping the path to a post-oil future. On Dec. 18, Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio announced a $2.2 billion investment from Abu Dhabi-backed fund CYVN, the same day that Dubai-based decarbonization company Positive Zero revealed it could receive up to $400 million from BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager.
The Israeli military confirmed that reservists from at least two brigades will be sent home this week, though the IDF did not say whether the troop drawdown reflects a new stage of the war in Gaza.