World News / 19 January 2024
Fears of an expanding war
Tensions fueled by the Israel/Hamas conflict have been spreading in the Middle East with Iran and Pakistan launching attacks on each other’s territory. Iran claims the strike in the border region targeted Iranian Sunni militants who were planning attacks against the Iranian state, but Pakistan says 2 children were killed and the strike was a “blatant violation” of its airspace. It quickly moved to expel Iran’s ambassador from Islamabad and withdrew its own rep from Tehran. And overnight, Pakistan launched strikes on what it said were separatist militant hideouts inside Iran, killing 9 people. Iran says it does not want to get involved in a broader conflict despite hitting targets in Iraq and Syria in the past week. It’s also backing the Houthi rebels in Yemen who have been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea.
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