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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Frank McKenzie

Israeli and foreign fighter jets fly in formation during the Israeli Air Force's Blue Flag exercise in October 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 26, 2022, 6:10 pm
Israeli defense chief said to talk anti-Iran alliance with Saudi counterpart
IDF commander Aviv Kohavi reportedly agrees with other Mideast security officials to create alert system, at US-sponsored meeting in Egypt including states Israel has no ties with
By ToI Staff
Missiles are fired in an Iranian military exercise by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, on July 28, 2020. (Sepahnews via AP)
March 19, 2022, 8:51 am
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatens to hit ‘Zionist bases’ in Iraq
IRGC claims ‘natural right to destroy any base from which any attack’ was launched against the Islamic Republic, days after striking alleged Israeli site in Erbil
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: F-15 fighter jets with the 125th Fighter Wing of the Florida Air National Guard perform a flyover on February 14, 2020, in Deland, Florida. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
March 16, 2022, 12:10 am
US to sell F-15s to Egypt, top general tells Senate
Central Command chief Frank McKenzie says deal the result of ‘a long, hard slog’; State Department, which last year froze military aid over rights concerns, has yet to approve sale
By AFP
This photo released Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, by the Iranian Army, shows a missile being fired during a military drill at an undisclosed location in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)
December 28, 2021, 1:52 pm
Israeli defense official says Iran faces ‘no deterrent’ to its nuclear goals
‘Iran is no longer afraid,’ Zohar Palti tells New Yorker; US special envoy Rob Malley, in same article, says Tehran ‘playing with fire,’ efforts to revive 2015 deal could fail
By ToI Staff
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of US Central Command at Resolute Support headquarters, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahmad Seir)
December 11, 2021, 10:26 am
US Mideast military chief: Attacks by Iran-backed militias ‘may provoke a response’
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie says Tehran ‘is trying to eject’ US troops from Iraq, and that it holds to dangerous belief its attacks on troops won’t affect nuke talks
By Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns
Afghans inspect damage of Ahmadi family house after a US drone strike on August 29, 2021, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi, File)
November 3, 2021, 10:13 pm
Pentagon probe: Drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians did not violate law
Independent review concludes deadly bombing in final days of Afghanistan war not caused by misconduct or negligence, doesn’t recommend disciplinary action
By Lolita C. Baldor
In this Aug. 30, 2021, file photo Gen. Frank McKenzie, Commander of US Central Command, appears on screen as he speaks from MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa, Fla., as he speaks about Afghanistan during a virtual briefing moderated by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
September 17, 2021, 11:27 pm
Pentagon calls Kabul strike that killed 10 civilians a ‘tragic mistake’
US retreats from defense of drone strike in Afghanistan last month after review finds only civilians, including 7 children, were killed, not IS fighters
By Robert Burns
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top US commander for the Middle East, speaks to the media after arriving in Syria to meet with US and allied commanders and troops, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Lolita C. Baldor)
May 22, 2021, 6:02 pm
Top US commander in Middle East says more work needed to counter Iranian drones
Gen. Frank McKenzie says Iran-backed militias in Iraq believe they can launch attacks at a ‘fairly low level’ without provoking an American response: ‘It’s a dangerous situation’
By Lolita C. Baldor
Armed US soldiers stand guard in the motorcade for President Donald Trump as he makes a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit to the troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
November 20, 2020, 12:34 pm
US general warns Islamic State still a long-term threat in Iraq, Syria
As Trump pushes to withdraw troops from the Middle East, US Central Command chief says solution needed for refugees, or ‘we’re never really going to defeat ISIS’
By Robert Burns
Gen. Frank McKenzie, center front, the top US commander for the Middle East, walks as he visits a military outpost in Syria, on January 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)
February 4, 2020, 7:33 pm
US general slips into Iraq for talks to salvage relations
Frank McKenzie meets with Iraqi leaders amid calls for American troops to be expelled from country following strike on Iran’s Soleimani, militia commander
By Lolita C. Baldor
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