Misplaced flashlight in F-35 engine results in $4 million in damage

A foreign object left inside an F-35 engine at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, in early 2023 caused nearly $4 million in damages.

The item — a handheld flashlight — was sucked into the engine’s air intake during a maintenance ground run on the night of March 15.

John Kirby downplaying Iran-backed militia missile attack on U.S. Army Airbase in Iraq:

It's only a very small number of U.S. troops that were affected. They're being seen for traumatic brain injuries, with some symptoms of concussions, but no serious physical injuries other than that.

Turkish parliament is set to vote on Sweden’s entry into NATO later this week.

3 more IDF soldiers have been killed in Gaza, bringing Israel’s official death toll in Gaza to 198.

Israel FM suggests Palestinians could live on artificial island off Gaza

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has suggested that Gaza's population could be transferred to an “artificial island in the Mediterranean Sea.”, The Guardian reported.

“He never said such a thing, and there is no such plan,” the Foreign Ministry told The Times of Israel.

EU states agree on military action in the Red Sea

The EU states have reached a political agreement in principle to launch a military operation to secure merchant shipping in the Red Sea.

Secretive Chinese lab simulates attack on US warships using space weapons, hypersonic missiles, SCMP reports.

Leading the project was Liu Shichang, a scientist with the Science and Technology on Electronic Information Control Laboratory.

The secretive lab works on electronic warfare equipment for the Chinese military, under state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.

Israel has given Hamas a proposal through Qatari and Egyptian mediators that includes up to two months of a pause in the fighting as part of a multi-phase deal that would include the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza, Axios reports.

22 Israeli soldiers were killed in addition to 6 missing in Gaza today, Arab media reports.

Operation Poseidon Archer continues

US and UK carried out additional strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen last night, marking the 8th round of attacks by the US military on Houthis in just over 10 days.

They struck eight sites, according to the statement from the US and UK, which conducted the strikes, and Canada, the Netherlands, Bahrain, and Australia, which supported the attacks.

It was a smaller number than the first joint operation on January 11 that struck over 30 Houthi targets.

The strikes targeted a Houthi underground storage site and sites associates with Houthi missile and air surveillance.

For the first time, the US also struck an underground storage facility used by the Houthis.

The storage site was assessed to have “more advanced conventional weaponry,” including missiles and one-way attack drones.

IDF says 10 of its soldiers were killed in Gaza.

According to the initial investigation, two anti-tank missiles were directed at buildings where many IDF soldiers were in, and in their possession explosive materials that exploded as a result of the strikes.

In addition, a tank that was near the building was also hit by an anti-tank missile.

Hamas fighters fired anti-tank missiles at buildings where the IDF soldiers were with mines, and the buildings collapsed on them.

The rescue operations lasted long hours into the night.

#BREAKING IDF now says 21 of its reserve soldiers were killed in Gaza yesterday, 24 killed in total.

Large Russian missile attack targeted Ukraine's Kyiv, Kharkiv and several other Ukrainian cities earlier this morning.

Trump calls the leaders of the Russian Federation and China “smart and influential people” who “love their countries” and want them to prosper, in contrast to the “incompetent” Biden, “not able to put two words together and leave the stage.”

Russian Army deploys several S-300 air defense systems around St. Petersburg.

Just days ago Ukraine carried out the first kamikaze UAV strike on Ust-Luga gas export terminal near St. Petersburg.

Ukranian FPV drone strike destroys Russian tank.

Photos of the 24 killed IDF soldiers killed yesterday in Gaza.

Hamas rejects Israel's offer to cease hostilities in the Gaza Strip for two months, subject to the release of all hostages, AP reports, citing an unnamed high-ranking Egyptian official.

New UAVs delivered to Iranian Army.

- Ababil 4
- Ababil 5
- Arash
- Bavar
- Karrar

Very intense clashes between Hamas fighters and IDF forces in Gaza.

IDF demolishes more parts of Gaza “dedicated to the memory of 21 fallen IDF soldiers.”