Topic: Defence — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-28 22:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: US futures are but well off session lows, as part of a weaker risk tape after the US and Iran exchanged strikes, fueling doubts whether an end to the war is imminent and crushing hopes for a Hormuz deal (gasp). Overnight, US forces carried out airstrikes on an Iranian military site which Centcom described as "purely defensive" and designed to maintain the ceasefire; it also imposed new sanctions to prevent Tehran from profiting from vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-28 22:10 UTC+10:00] [Defense] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Russia and Afghanistan signed a military cooperation agreement on Wednesday, just one year after the Kremlin removed the Taliban from a list of banned terrorist groups.
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[2026-05-28 21:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Germany is drawing up a law that would force former soldiers to attend regular military exercises, as Berlin pushes ahead with its militarization campaign, Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday. Moscow has denounced the EU’s military buildup as aimed against Russia, and a ploy to distract the public from deepening domestic crises.
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[2026-05-28 21:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Germany is drawing up a law that would force former soldiers to attend regular military exercises, as Berlin pushes ahead with its militarization campaign, Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday. Moscow has denounced the EU’s military buildup as being aimed against Russia and a ploy to distract the public from deepening domestic crises.
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[2026-05-28 21:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-28 21:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Israeli army said on Thursday that it has carried out further attacks on Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut, following earlier strikes in southern Lebanon which have killed at least 13 people.
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[2026-05-28 20:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-28 20:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Burkina Faso’s military leaders have suspended the country’s largest student union and arrested its leader.
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[2026-05-28 20:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Measures cover education, management and supervision of senior cadres and coincide with emphasis on study of Xi Jinping Thought
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[2026-05-28 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Beijing] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Measures cover education, management and supervision of senior cadres and coincide with emphasis on study of Xi Jinping Thought
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[2026-05-28 19:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Iran has said it used a new air defence system to shoot down a United States MQ-9 Reaper drone near the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week, an incident analysts say shows that Tehran has retained its capacity to repel US and Israeli attacks despite months of strikes on its military sites.
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[2026-05-28 18:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-28 18:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: POCHEON, South Korea, May 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea staged an integrated military firepower exercise Thursday showcasing advanced and homegrown assets, including suicide drones and robots, demonstrating ground and air combat capabilities.
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[2026-05-28 17:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF killed Ihab Khrizim, leader of a central Hamas funds transfer network, in a strike on Khan Yunis, the military announced on Thursday.
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[2026-05-28 17:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac met with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on Thursday and discussed the security situation on the Korean Peninsula, while also sharing views on the ongoing Middle East conflict.
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[2026-05-28 16:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The IDF arrested five people during three separate counterterrorism operations in the West Bank throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, the military announced Thursday morning.
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[2026-05-28 16:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: According to regional authorities, the victims included two children aged 11 and 12, while several adults were taken to hospital. Emergency services said the attack sparked a major blaze that spread across 1,800 square metres, affecting commercial buildings in a busy part of the city. Firefighters and rescue teams were deployed as thick black smoke rose above the area.
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[2026-05-28 15:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Tehran10:58 a.m. May 28
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[2026-05-28 15:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Oil prices have jumped after the US carried out new attacks on Iran, targeting a military site in Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city.
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[2026-05-28 15:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-05-28 14:52 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts in diplomacy, military policy and North Korea’s evolving posture.
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[2026-05-28 14:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: BEIJING — China's military said on Wednesday it drove away a Dutch navy vessel it accused of "illegally intruding" into the area around the Paracel Islands in the contested South China Sea.
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[2026-05-28 13:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US military has carried out new strikes against an Iranian drones that it said posed a threat to American forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-28 13:03 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: US forces down attack drones in Bandar Abbas amid further military activity around the strait of Hormuz, with Iranian forces reportedly firing at four ships in the waterway
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[2026-05-28 12:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac was set to depart Thursday for Kazakhstan where he will discuss regional security and cooperation on energy supply chains, the presidential office said.
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[2026-05-28 12:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — US forces carried out new defensive strikes on Iran on Wednesday after President Donald Trump asserted that Iran is “negotiating on fumes” and insisted that November’s midterm elections in the United States won’t make him rush into a deal to end the nearly three-month-old conflict.
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[2026-05-28 12:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is making unacceptable demands during negotiations with Iran after failing to defeat the country militarily, Ali Bagheri, deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has told RT.
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[2026-05-28 12:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US is making unacceptable demands during negotiations with Iran after failing to defeat the country militarily, Ali Bagheri, the deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has told RT.
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[2026-05-28 11:59 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military on Wednesday told residents across southern Lebanon to leave as it expands its operations there, saying in a statement that the military will “work with extreme force” against Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.
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[2026-05-28 11:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Pentagon is seen, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-05-28 11:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel's military issued displacement threats for residents of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Thursday, ordering them to move north of the Zahrani River.
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[2026-05-28 11:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The US military has launched another wave of airstrikes in Iran, actions it is calling "measured, purely defensive, and intended to maintain the ceasefire".
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[2026-05-28 10:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN — Iran on Wednesday said a return to war was unlikely but that its military was nonetheless "lying in wait", while US President Donald Trump threatened to "finish the job" if Tehran did not agree to deal.
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[2026-05-28 10:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Israel's military has just taken out a high-value target, with the confirmed death of the commander of Hamas's military wing, Mohammed Odeh.
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[2026-05-28 10:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hezbollah announced that it launched 37 military operations on Wednesday against Israeli forces inside southern Lebanon as well as Israeli sites in the Galilee.
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[2026-05-28 09:40 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The South Korea-US alliance remains committed to a "conditions-based" transfer of wartime operational control to Seoul from Washington, a US Forces Korea official said Wednesday, amid a report that the US military has expressed concerns over a potentially rushed OPCON transition.
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[2026-05-28 09:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 27 (Yonhap) -- The South Korea-U.S. alliance remains committed to a "conditions-based" transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON) to Seoul from Washington, a U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) official said Wednesday, amid a report that the U.S. military has expressed concerns over a potentially rushed OPCON transition.
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[2026-05-28 09:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran will not back down from its red lines in negotiations with the US, the head of the Iranian parliament's national security committee, Ebrahim Azizi, asserted in a post on X/Twitter on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-28 07:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Lebanese military says one of its soldiers was killed in an Israeli strike on the Kfar Roman-Khardali road in southern Lebanon.
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[2026-05-28 06:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has threatened to use military force against Oman if it collaborates with Iran to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-28 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: PLA says it used electronic interference and warnings against Dutch frigate as tensions widen in South China Sea
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[2026-05-28 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Xisha Islands] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: PLA says it used electronic interference and warnings against Dutch frigate as tensions widen in South China Sea
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[2026-05-28 04:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Israel-Hezbollah conflict intensified on Wednesday with the IDF striking over 150 targets in Tyre, Nabatieh, the Bekaa Valley, and throughout southern Lebanon, and the terror group launching drones at Rosh Hanikra, Shlomi, and sirens wailing in Kiryat Shmona.
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[2026-05-28 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Israeli military has said it is carrying out air strikes on Hezbollah targets in Tyre in southern Lebanon, after ordering the evacuation of the entire city.
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[2026-05-28 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A resident carries belongings as she walks through the rubble of her home destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in the southern village of Maarakeh, Lebanon, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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[2026-05-28 02:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Hamas has confirmed that its newly appointed military chief in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City.
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[2026-05-28 02:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: What is so shocking about Israel's achievement of assassinating two Hamas military chiefs, Izz-al-Din al-Hadad, and his successor, Mohammed Ouda, within 11 days of each other, is that no one is even shocked anymore.
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[2026-05-28 02:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In a statement posted on Telegram, the Israeli military said it is carrying out strikes against Hezbollah command centres in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
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[2026-05-28 01:45 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
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[2026-05-28 01:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said that “the conditions and procedures for passing through the Strait of Hormuz will be completely different from the conditions before the conflict over Iran began,” in comments carried by Iran’s Mehr news agency on Wednesday.
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