TEHRAN -- Iran said Thursday it has inducted 1,000 domestically developed "strategic combat" drones into the combat formations of its army divisions, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
The drones were distributed to the army's ground, air defense, naval, and air forces under the order of army chief Amir Hatami, the report said. (Iran-Drone-Induction)
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GAZA -- Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Thursday near a sensitive ceasefire boundary in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said.
Medical staff at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis told Xinhua the hospital received the bodies of two people shot near the so-called "Yellow Line," a demarcation marking Israeli-held territory under the first phase of the current ceasefire. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel)
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ANKARA -- Türkiye's gendarmerie has detained 171 suspected migrant smuggling organizers in a nationwide coordinated operation over the past two weeks, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Thursday.
"In operations conducted by our Gendarmerie in 26 provinces over the past two weeks, we have apprehended 171 organizers of migrant smuggling," Yerlikaya said on social media platform X. (Türkiye-Migrant smuggling-Suspect)
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TEHRAN -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is scheduled to hold "live-fire" exercises in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and Monday as tensions remain extremely high between Tehran and Washington, Iran's Press TV news network reported.
In a post on social media platform X on Thursday, Press TV said that the drills will be carried out by the IRGC's Navy, describing the strait as "a chokepoint for the flow of 20 percent of the world's oil and natural gas." (Iran-IRGC-Drill) ■
