Pakistan-Iran attack LIVE Updates: Three women and four children were among those killed in the Pak strikes.
Pakistan-Iran attack LIVE Updates: Nine people were killed in retaliatory attacks by Pakistan on a border region in Iran’s southeast on Thursday, escalating regional tensions.
Three women and four children were among those killed in the strikes, according to the deputy provincial governor of Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province.
The development comes two days after Iran carried out strikes against “terrorist” targets in Pakistan which left at least two children dead. Islamabad expelled the Iranian envoy to the country and recalled its ambassador from Tehran.
Meanwhile, amid tensions between Iran and Pakistan, the US is concerned about the escalating tensions in the region and has urged restraint on all sides, US State Department of State Matthew Miller said.
Iran and Pakistan share around 900-km border that enables militants to move freely between nations. Notably, it was the first missile attack on Iranian soil since the end of the gruelling eight-year Iran-Iraq War in 1988.
The attack and counter-attack raise the threat of violence spilling over to other parts of the Middle East, which is already reeling under the ongoing Israel-Gaza war.
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Jan 19, 2024 03:45 PM IST
Iran launches air defence drill amid rising regional tensions
Iran said on Friday that it successfully carried out an air defence drill using drones designed to intercept hostile targets in an area stretching from its southwestern to southeastern coasts, amid heightened tensions in the region.
On Thursday Pakistan launched air strikes against what it said were separatist militants inside Iran in a retaliatory attack two days after Tehran said it struck the bases of another group within Pakistani territory.
The tit-for-tat strikes were the highest-profile cross-border intrusions in recent years and have raised alarm over wider instability in the Middle East since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on Oct. 7.
FILE PHOTO: A drone is seen during a military exercise in an undisclosed location in Iran, in this handout image obtained on October 4, 2023. Iranian Army/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS -
Jan 19, 2024 03:38 PM IST
Iran and its proxies and widening violence in the Middle East
Iran launched missile strikes on three different countries this week – Iraq, Syria and Pakistan – while proxy militant groups it backs continue to target U.S. and Western interests and fight Israel, stoking fears of conflict that could engulf the Middle East and spread to other regions.
Iran’s strikes on Iraq, Syria and Pakistan were all in response to attacks carried out on its soil or against Iranian targets.
Tehran said on Tuesday it fired missiles at Islamic State militants in Syria, in response to a bombing that killed scores of people at a commemoration for the famed commander Qassem Soleimani in central Iran on Jan. 3. Soleimani was the principal architect of Iran’s network of proxy paramilitaries in the Arab world. A U.S. drone strike killed him in 2020.
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Jan 19, 2024 02:57 PM IST
Islamabad’s inactions, domestic pressure forced Iran to strike Pakistan: Report
After an alarming flare up, Pakistan and Iran have shown signs that they don’t want the situation to escalate. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told Bloomberg on Friday that they don’t want an escalation. “We also got similar kind of sentiments from their side. So we are taking it further,” she said.
Jan 19 (Reuters) – Iran said on Friday that it successfully carried out an air defence drill using drones designed to intercept hostile targets in an area stretching from its southwestern to southeastern coasts, amid heightened tensions in the region.On Thursday Pakistan launched air strikes against what it said were separatist militants inside Iran in a retaliatory attack two days after Tehran said it struck the bases of another group within Pakistani territory.The tit-for-tat strikes were the highest-profile cross-border intrusions in recent years and have raised alarm over wider instability in the Middle East since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on Oct. 7.“Iranian forces have successfully launched a new air defence method that uses drones to intercept and target hostile targets,” state-run Press TV quoted an Iranian army spokesman as saying.The two-day drills, which began on Thursday, cover an area from Abadan in southwestern Khuzestan province to Chahbahar in southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province that borders Pakistan and Afghanistan.Press TV said the army’s air force and navy, the aerospace force and the navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) participated in the exercises.Iran and Pakistan have a history of rocky relations but both have signalled a desire to cool tensions in the wake of this week’s strikes.Against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, Iran and its militia allies around the Middle East have been carrying out attacks on Israeli and U.S. targets in the region in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.(Reuters) – Iran said on Friday that it successfully carried out an air defence drill using drones designed to intercept hostile targets in an area stretching from its southwestern to southeastern coasts, amid heightened tensions in the region.
On Thursday Pakistan launched air strikes against what it said were separatist militants inside Iran in a retaliatory attack two days after Tehran said it struck the bases of another group within Pakistani territory.
The tit-for-tat strikes were the highest-profile cross-border intrusions in recent years and have raised alarm over wider instability in the Middle East since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on Oct. 7.
“Iranian forces have successfully launched a new air defence method that uses drones to intercept and target hostile targets,” state-run Press TV quoted an Iranian army spokesman as saying.
The two-day drills, which began on Thursday, cover an area from Abadan in southwestern Khuzestan province to Chahbahar in southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province that borders Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Press TV said the army’s air force and navy, the aerospace force and the navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) participated in the exercises.
Iran and Pakistan have a history of rocky relations but both have signalled a desire to cool tensions in the wake of this week’s strikes.
Against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, Iran and its militia allies around the Middle East have been carrying out attacks on Israeli and U.S. targets in the region in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Iran has also launched strikes on Syria against what it said were Islamic State sites, and Iraq, where it said it had struck an Israeli espionage centre.
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