BERLIN -- Czech police announced on Tuesday that three suspects, including Czech and U.S. citizens, have been arrested for allegedly setting fire to an arms factory in the eastern Czech city of Pardubice.
One suspect was arrested in Slovakia, while the other two in the Czech Republic, the police said on social media platform X. The fire broke out Friday at facilities belonging to the Czech defense firm LPP Holding, which manufactures military equipment, including drones supplied to Ukraine. (Czechia-Police)
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BEIRUT -- At least 17 people were killed and several others wounded in a series of Israeli airstrikes and ground operations across southern Lebanon, Mount Lebanon, and Beirut's southern suburbs overnight and early Tuesday, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.
The Israeli military on Tuesday confirmed its strikes, saying that it had completed another wave of airstrikes across Lebanon, targeting fuel stations belonging to a Hezbollah-controlled company. (Lebanon-Israeli-Strikes)
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NEW DELHI -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump held conversations over the phone on Tuesday, discussing the importance of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open, according to U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor.
In a post on social media platform X, Gor wrote that the two leaders "discussed the ongoing situation in the Middle East, including the importance of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open." (Modi-Trump-Conversations)
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BAGHDAD -- Six Iraqi Kurdish military personnel, known as Peshmerga, were killed and 30 others injured early Tuesday when Iranian ballistic missiles struck military positions in Erbil province, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, local authorities said.
According to a statement by the Peshmerga Ministry of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government, the headquarters of the 7th Infantry Division and a force from the 5th Infantry Division of the Peshmerga forces were hit by six Iranian ballistic missiles. (Iraq-Iran-Attacks) ■
