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Explosive White House leak reveals final approval and date for Iran strike

February 23rd, 2026 - 06:42 GMT

Osama Ali

Explosive White House leak reveals final approval and date for Iran strike

ALBAWABA - Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has caused a stir by saying that the White House has made a final decision to attack Iran with U.S. military force, possibly as soon as Monday or Tuesday. Kiriakou said on Julian Dorey's podcast that he got information from someone who had just been in the White House. He says that people are no longer talking about whether an attack will happen ...

The capture of the arms depots was confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog. (Photo: AFP /JM LOPEZ)

March 17th, 2013 - 03:04 GMT

After days of fierce fighting, Syrian rebels seize arms depots in Aleppo

A federal policeman inspects a vehicle in front of government buildings on Sunday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. (Photo: AFP / Sabah Arar)

March 17th, 2013 - 12:36 GMT

Iraq's Shia south rocked by more bomb attacks

An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on March 16, 2013 shows a bus following an accident with a truck in the Adssiyeh region in southwest Jordan. (AFP PHOTO/YOUTUBE)

March 17th, 2013 - 11:29 GMT

Bodies of the Jordan bus crash transferred back to Palestine

Tunisian people wave a giant national flag during a demonstration to mark the 40th day of mourning after the death of anti-Islamist opposition leader Chokri Belaid (featured on poster) on Saturday on the Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis. (AFP / Fethi Belaid)

March 17th, 2013 - 10:21 GMT

In biggest protest since Belaid's assassination, Tunisians call for downfall of Islamist government

An Iraqi Kurdish woman visits the grave of her sister, who was killed in a gas attack by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 1988 (AFP Photo)

March 17th, 2013 - 10:07 GMT

Hundreds gather to mark 25th anniversary of Halabja gas attack

File picture dated March 20, 2003 shows smoke billowing after a missile hit the planning ministry in Baghdad as the Iraqi capital came under heavy US-led bombardment on the first day of the US-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein. (AFP / Ramzi Haidar)

March 17th, 2013 - 09:06 GMT

Al-Qaeda in Iraq claims responsibility for ministry attack

The Libyan embassy in Cairo announced on Saturday that it had suspended operations indefinitely. (Photo used for illustrative purposes)

March 17th, 2013 - 07:58 GMT

Cairo's Libyan embassy suspends work after Egyptians protest over Copt death

Syrian government forces deploy themselves in the streets of Syria's second city Aleppo. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

March 17th, 2013 - 05:23 GMT

Syria general's defection latest in series of Assad insiders abandoning regime

Egyptian women shout slogans against President Mohamed Morsi's government at Tahrir square. (AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA)

March 16th, 2013 - 04:35 GMT

UN call to end violence against women slated by the Brotherhood

Egyptian protestors take part in demonstration to show their support for their country's military and against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)

March 16th, 2013 - 10:04 GMT

Crowds gather in Egypt to call for military rule

Iraqi demonstrators shout slogans during an anti-government protest in the western city of Ramadi on Friday. (AFP PHOTO/AZHAR SHALLAL)

March 16th, 2013 - 04:42 GMT

Police turn violent after Iraq's Sunnis take to the streets once again

Lebanese security forces and civilians inspect the scene of a bus crash, killing and wounding several people, in the town of Kahaleh, ten kilometres east of Beirut on March 15, 2013, that was carrying Syrian refugees upon their arrival from Syria to Lebanon. (AFP PHOTO/ ANWAR AMRO)

March 15th, 2013 - 09:15 GMT

Syrian government threatens strike on Lebanese "armed gangs"