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Drone-killing Vampires due in Ukraine next year, Pentagon says
The U.S. is aiming to send Ukraine the “Vampire” counter-drone system by mid-2023, with a contract award expected within months, a Pentagon spokesman said.
By Joe Gould
US to reduce staff at Baghdad embassy amid regional tensions
A U.S. official said the decision stems from concern about a possible Iranian retaliatory strike on the first anniversary of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's top general, Qassim Soleimani.
Iran scientist linked to military nuclear program killed
The killing risks further raising tensions across the Mideast, nearly a year after Iran and the U.S. stood on the brink of war when an American drone strike killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches aircraft-carrying ship
Photos showed the ship carrying truck-launched surface-to-surface missiles, anti-aircraft missiles and four small fast boats.
US attack risks ‘full-fledged war,’ says adviser to Iran’s leader
An adviser to Iran's supreme leader warned against any American military escalation in Trump’s final weeks in office.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Iranian attacks are down, but not over, CENTCOM commander says
Iranian attacks on U.S. forces have gone down, but there's no reason to believe they're going away.
After embassy closure threat, US ‘outraged’ by rocket attack that killed 6 Iraqi civilians
he U.S. State Department said Tuesday it was outraged by a rocket attack a day earlier that killed Iraqi civilians and called on the government to take action amid an impending diplomatic crisis between Baghdad and Washington.
US warns Iraqi leaders of Baghdad embassy closure if attacks continue
The warning signals the administration’s increasing frustration and anger with ongoing rocket fire from Iranian-supported groups on or near the vast U.S. Embassy compound.
Iran vows ‘hit’ on all involved in US killing of top general
The chief of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Saturday to go after everyone who had a role in a top general’s January killing during a U.S. drone strike in Iraq.
Amid tensions with US, Iran introduces two new missiles named for leaders killed in airstrike
State TV said the “Martyr Hajj Qassem” missile was not intercepted by a defense system during a test.
‘Desert One’ documentary chronicles challenges, lessons of Operation Eagle Claw
The film is coming to more than 100 theaters across the U.S. starting on Aug. 21.
By Diana Stancy