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Iran’s killer drones increase slaughter in Sudan amid world’s forgotten war
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Iran is once again being accused of playing a deadly role in yet another conflict, this time by supplying attack drones to one of the sides in the predominantly Muslim nation of Sudan’s deadly civil war — drones that are indiscriminately killing women and children.
The war, now in its fourth year, has, according to some accounts, seen as many as 400,000 deaths since the conflict began on April 15, 2023. More than 11 million have been displaced, giving rise to the worst displacement crisis in the world.
Mariam Wahba, research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) told Fox News Digital that, «Iran has supplied the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) with drones, specifically the Mohajer-6, manufactured by Qods Aviation Industries, a U.S.-sanctioned entity, since 2013.»
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The «Mohajer 6» drone is displayed during Iran’s defense industry achievements exhibition, on August 23, 2023 in Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
The State Department has hit out against the use of drones against civilians in the ongoing war in Sudan, with the SAF alleged to use Iranian drones widely against the population. An Iranian woman is also in federal custody in California after being arrested earlier this month for an alleged plot to supply Sudan with more Iranian drones.
Documented cases show both the SAF and the rebel militia they are fighting, the Rapid Support Forces, (RSF), are increasingly using drones against civilians.
Wahba said that «between Dec. 2023 and July 2024, at least seven cargo flights traveled between Iran and Sudan, likely transporting drones and component parts. On April 19, an Iranian-born U.S. resident was arrested at LAX (Los Angeles International airport) for allegedly brokering a $70 million deal to supply Mohajer-6 systems and other hardware to Sudan’s Ministry of Defense, indicating the transfers are likely ongoing.»
A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, «We are greatly concerned about the proliferation of drone warfare by the parties (in Sudan), and the impact this has on civilians and civilian infrastructure. Recently we have seen RSF and SAF drones destroy hospitals and schools, killing civilians.»
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Patients with their malnourished children at the nutrition ward of the Pediatric Center of the Port Sudan Children’s Teaching Hospital, in Port Sudan, Sudan, on Monday, Oct. 328, 2024. Millions of dollars worth of weapons, fuel and drones flowing through Port Sudan have given the country’s army the upper hand in the world’s deadliest war, as Tehran and Moscow jockey for military bases on the Red Sea. (Eduardo Soteras/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
News of the Iran drone plot in the U.S. was first announced by Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, in a post on X, April 19, «Shamim Mafi, 44, of Woodland Hills, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport for trafficking arms on behalf of the government of Iran. She is charged with a violation of 50 U.S.C. § 1705 for brokering the sale of drones, bombs, bomb fuses, and millions of rounds of ammunition manufactured by Iran and sold to Sudan.»
The post was accompanied by photos of Iranian drones, and an image of what looked like a suitcase stuffed with dollar bills.
Ciaran McEvoy from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California told Fox News Digital that Mafi «remains in federal custody and her arraignment is scheduled for Friday, May 8 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.»
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Wahba told Fox News Digital that the Mohajer-6 drone Iran is supplying to Sudan is «Iran’s workhorse drone», adding it’s the system used in attacks on Israel and the Red Sea by Hezbollah and the Houthis.
«The Mohajer-6 is a reusable platform used for surveillance and precision strikes,» Wahba added. It can loiter, collect intelligence and return.»
An Iranian navy special forces known as Takavaran stands guard near the Iranian Kharg replenishment ship docked in the Red Sea Sudanese town of Port Sudan on Oct. 31, 2012. The visit of two Iranian naval ships to Sudan reflects strong ties between the countries, (Ashraf Shazly/AFP via Getty Images)
The State Department told Fox News Digital of wider concerns: «Islamist groups aligned with the SAF have formed relationships with the Iranian regime and have received assistance from Iran. We’ve sanctioned a number of these groups, including the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood, who used unrestrained violence against civilians and undermined efforts to resolve the conflict in Sudan. Many of the group’s fighters have received training and other support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and have committed atrocities against civilians.»
United Nations spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, condemned the recent drone attacks in Sudan. He told reporters: «An aid truck from the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) that was carrying emergency shelter kits came under attack by a drone on Friday (April 24) while transiting through the town of Umm Drisaya in North Darfur state. All supplies were destroyed in the fire.»
Dujarric added: «The second incident occurred on Saturday (April 25) when a drone reportedly caused casualties in residential neighborhoods of El Obeid city, North Kordofan state. Seven people were killed and over 20 injured, according to a local medical group.»
Patients are pictured in one of the rooms of the Saudi hospital in Khartoum’s twin-city Omdurman on March 20, 2025 as most hospitals and schools no longer function in the Sudanese capital and its environs due to the ongoing war which broke out in April 2023. (Ebrahim Hamid / AFP via Getty Images)
«These are ordinary families in their homes, caught in violence that continues to reach civilian neighborhoods,» said Dujarric. «We condemn all of these attacks.»
Ricardo Pires, communication manager for the children’s agency UNICEF, told Fox News Digital: «For children in Sudan, the sound of a drone is yet another dreadful signal to hide and hope they are not harmed next. Across Darfur and Kordofan, drones and other explosive weapons are turning streets, hospitals and schools into places of danger and death. This is not just a protection threat for children. It is childhood being attacked by new forms of warfare.»
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The State Department spokesperson added, «In order to safeguard U.S. interests, to include the protection of religious freedom in Sudan, U.S. efforts seek to limit malign Islamist influence in Sudan’s government and curtail Iran’s regional activities, which have contributed to regional destabilization, conflict and civilian suffering.»
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After Democrats’ shake-up, Collins faces toss-up against Platner replacement in must-win Senate race
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The first Fox News Power Rankings of the 2026 midterm elections and a new poll both indicate an extremely close contest between longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Troy Jackson, the candidate set to replace ex-nominee Graham Platner as the Democratic challenger, in what’s expected to be a premiere Senate battleground.
The Fox News Power Rankings, which gauge the competitiveness of elections using data, reporting, and analysis, ranks the showdown in Maine as a toss-up. The midterm ballot box battle is one of roughly a dozen Senate contests that will determine if the Democrats win back the chamber or if Republicans hold onto their slim majority.
Meanwhile, a Pine Tree Poll conducted over the past seven days by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center indicates Jackson with a slight three-point edge over Collins among likely general election voters in Maine.
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Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, who ran unsuccessfully for the 2026 Maine gubernatorial nomination, is on a glide path to replace ex-candidate Graham Platner as the Democratic Party’s Senate nominee. (Sophie Park / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Jackson, a former Maine Senate president, is on a glide path to replace Platner at Saturday’s Maine Democratic Party nominating convention in Bangor, after winning the vast majority of the 500 voting delegates chosen this past weekend by Democrats in the state’s 16 counties. And most of Jackson’s top rivals for the nomination backed him after dropping out of the race on Sunday.
While the delegates on Jackson’s slate are not required to support him at the convention in Bangor, Maine, he is now considered all but certain to secure the nomination.
A fifth-generation logger and a one-time conservative Republican who became a Democrat over two decades ago, Jackson came in third place last month in Maine’s Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Platner dropped out earlier this month, amid calls from top Democrats in Maine and across the country to immediately exit the race following an explosive report containing an allegation of rape from a woman he previously dated. Platner denied the report but stepped aside.
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Then-Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner and Troy Jackson stand together during a «Fighting Oligarchy» tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in Orono, Maine, on May 24, 2026. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Jackson, who had campaigned alongside Platner during the primary, quickly made the case that he was the best equipped candidate to grab the mantle of the progressive and populist movement that had backed Platner.
Along with Platner, Jackson had the support of progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont as he ran for governor, and he is currently backed by Our Revolution, the group born in 2016 out of Sanders’ first presidential campaign.
Jackson, similar to Platner, is running on a platform aimed at working-class voters. He backs raising taxes on billionaires, the universal healthcare system known as «Medicare-for-all,» abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he opposes military aid to Israel at a time that Democrats are increasingly divided on support for America’s longtime Middle East ally.
Collins, as she runs for a sixth six-year term in the Senate, is facing a rough political climate for Republicans, amid GOP President Donald Trump’s underwater approval ratings, persistent inflation and what polls indicate is an unpopular war with Iran.
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Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine stands for an interview with Fox News Digital, on Feb. 10, 2026 in Washington D.C. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The senator, known as a moderate Republican who at times has voted against Trump, last month received bipartisan praise after reaching a milestone by casting her 10,000th consecutive Senate vote.
But Democrats are taking aim at Collins over her comments that she didn’t regret her 2018 vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, despite his crucial vote four years later to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling.
And following the fatal shooting in Maine earlier this month involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Democrats heavily criticized the Senate Appropriations Committee chair for her support for ICE funding.
But Collins has a history of defeating the Democrats’ efforts to oust her from the Senate.
Six years ago, she trailed Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, the then-Maine House speaker, but the senator ended up winning re-election by nearly 9 points.
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Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the U.S. Senate. That means Democrats would need a net gain of four seats in the midterms to retake the majority, which they lost in the 2024 elections.
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The Senate race in Maine, along with battles for Republican-controlled Senate seats in Alaska, Iowa, and Ohio, are ranked as toss-ups in the Fox News Power Rankings.
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Nacieron cuatrillizas idénticas en Australia, un caso natural considerado único en el mundo
En un hospital de Brisbane, Austral el nacimiento de cuatro niñas idénticas sorprendió al personal médico y a una familia que jamás imaginó recibir una noticia tan poco habitual.
Jenitar Na’amoana, una madre australiana de 34 años, dio a luz a cuatrillizas idénticas concebidas de forma natural, una situación que ocurre, según especialistas, en apenas uno de cada 15 millones de embarazos. El parto se realizó en el Hospital Real de Brisbane y de la Mujer y marcó un hito en la medicina australiana, tanto por su rareza como por el desafío que implicó para todos los involucrados.
La historia comenzó como cualquier control de rutina, pero el asombro se apoderó de los médicos cuando descubrieron que la gestación incluía cuatro bebés. La familia Na’amoana, que ya tenía cuatro hijos de entre uno y diez años, recibió el diagnóstico con “enorme sorpresa”, según relató la propia Jenitar.
A partir de la semana 25 de embarazo, la paciente quedó internada para un monitoreo constante, ya que el caso fue catalogado como de riesgo extremadamente alto. “Siempre dijimos que si lográbamos que llegara a las 28 semanas, estaríamos haciendo un buen trabajo”, explicó la doctora Alexa Bendall, obstetra y especialista en medicina materno-fetal, a Metro North Health, la red pública que gestiona hospitales y servicios médicos en el norte de Brisbane.
Finalmente, las niñas nacieron el 14 de julio, por cesárea, cuando la gestación alcanzaba las 28 semanas y cuatro días.
No solo la cantidad de bebés sorprendió al equipo médico, sino el hecho de que fueran monocigóticas: las cuatro niñas se originaron a partir de un solo óvulo fecundado que se dividió en cuatro embriones y compartieron la misma placenta.
Esto es “algo inaudito”, en palabras de la doctora Bendall, quien acompañó a Jenitar desde el inicio del embarazo. La probabilidad de que se presente un embarazo de cuatrillizas idénticas concebidas de forma natural es de una en 15 millones de casos.
En términos simples, un embarazo monocigótico ocurre cuando un solo óvulo se divide varias veces tras la fecundación, dando lugar a bebés genéticamente idénticos. La situación de que sean cuatro y compartan la misma placenta añade un nivel de rareza extraordinario.
Las recién nacidas recibieron los nombres de Emily, Harriet, Catherine y Alexa. Este último, en homenaje a la médica que lideró el seguimiento del embarazo y el parto, un gesto que la profesional calificó como “un hermoso homenaje”.
La llegada de las cuatrillizas elevó a ocho el número de hijos de la familia Na’amoana. El propio hospital destacó que la madre “ha evitado todas las complicaciones y riesgos tanto para ella como para sus bebés”, algo que los especialistas consideran casi milagroso dadas las condiciones del caso.
Cuidar a cuatro recién nacidas al mismo tiempo requiere no solo de un esfuerzo físico y emocional, sino también de recursos materiales. Ante esta nueva realidad, Jenitar Na’amoana inició una campaña de recaudación de fondos con el objetivo de adquirir una furgoneta de al menos diez asientos. En el mensaje de la campaña, la madre expresó: “Nuestros cuatro preciosos milagros han llegado sanos y salvos, y aunque nuestros corazones rebosan de gratitud, la realidad de cuidar a cuatro recién nacidas a la vez nos ha traído desafíos que nunca hubiéramos imaginado”. La iniciativa ya recaudó más de US$25.000.
Tras el nacimiento, las niñas permanecen en la unidad de cuidados intensivos neonatales del Hospital Real de Brisbane y de la Mujer. Allí, el equipo médico monitorea su evolución hasta que alcancen el desarrollo necesario para recibir el alta. “El hecho de que hayamos tenido cuatro bebés preciosas y sanas nacidas a las 28 semanas y cuatro días es increíble y estamos muy contentos de formar parte de ello”, expresó la doctora Bendall.
Los nacimientos de cuatrillizos de forma natural son extremadamente poco frecuentes, con una probabilidad de aproximadamente una entre 700.000. Que, además, sean idénticos y compartan la misma placenta constituye una rareza aún mayor. El caso australiano no solo sorprendió a la familia Na’amoana, sino que se convirtió en referencia para la medicina global.
“Cada día que nuestros bebés milagro crecen fuertes es otra oración respondida”, compartió Jenitar Na’amoana en sus redes sociales junto a imágenes de las pequeñas. Su testimonio simboliza la combinación de ciencia y esperanza ante un fenómeno estadísticamente improbable.
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Dagen McDowell highlights how Iran’s financial support of terror proxies, including the Houthis in Yemen, has led to a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia. This significant escalation in the Middle East jeopardizes critical oil shipping lanes in the Red Sea, causing global investors to remain on high alert due to potential economic repercussions.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Iran on Wednesday of flying members of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps into Yemen, saying Tehran’s actions helped ignite a renewed confrontation between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
«They decided to send direct flights from Tehran into Yemen, carrying IRGC elements and others into the country,» Rubio told reporters. «And the Saudis responded to it.»
Rubio did not identify the flights, specify how many IRGC personnel were allegedly transported or provide evidence supporting the allegation.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Pasay, Metro Manila on July 22, 2026. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
He made the remarks while attending an annual gathering of Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers in Manila, Philippines, where the U.S.-Iran conflict and threats to international shipping were among the central security concerns.
The Houthis have declared a blockade targeting Saudi-linked vessels in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, threatening to widen the conflict and disrupt another critical global trade route.
The rebels say they are targeting ships connected to Saudi Arabia or traveling to and from the kingdom’s Red Sea ports in retaliation for Saudi restrictions on Yemen and a recent attack on the airport in the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa.
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Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
The Houthis blamed Saudi Arabia for the airport attack, which they said was intended to stop a flight carrying Houthi leaders home from Iran. Rubio disputed that account and alleged that Tehran was using direct flights to transport IRGC personnel and others into Yemen.
The Houthis later launched missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport, marking one of the most serious confrontations between the two sides in years.
Rubio said U.S. officials had spoken repeatedly with Saudi officials during the past week about the Houthi threat.
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«Anything that restricts shipping through the Red Sea would be problematic for the same reasons that the Strait of Hormuz is problematic,» Rubio said. «So we’re watching that closely.»
Saudi Arabia’s military has vowed to keep Bab el-Mandeb open and respond firmly to Houthi threats against commercial vessels using the waterway.
The narrow strait connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and serves as a major shipping corridor linking Europe and Asia through the Suez Canal. Around 12% of global trade and roughly one-quarter of worldwide container traffic normally pass through the route.
Its importance has grown as the U.S.-Iran conflict has sharply curtailed shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia has increasingly relied on Red Sea export routes to transport oil to international markets.
A Houthi follower looks on, during a pro-Iran demonstration, as the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran continues, in Sanaa, Yemen April 6, 2026. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
The Houthi-run SABA news agency claimed six vessels had altered course after receiving warnings from the group, a claim that could not be independently verified.
The Houthis say the blockade is limited to Saudi-linked shipping. During their earlier campaign connected to the war in Gaza, however, the rebels attacked more than 100 vessels, including ships with little or no apparent connection to Israel.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the latest Houthi threat had not materialized.
«So far, it hasn’t happened,» Trump told reporters. «I think that if there is something like that, we’ll just have to take care of business.»
Rubio’s accusation came as the U.S. military carried out an 11th consecutive night of strikes against targets in Iran. U.S. Central Command said the latest targets included aircraft hangars and drone storage sites.
Speaking to Southeast Asian leaders, Rubio also warned that allowing Iran to control the Strait of Hormuz, collect tolls and attack ships that refused to comply would set a dangerous precedent for international waterways around the world.
«If we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway, charge a toll and, if you don’t pay them, blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous precedent which will repeat itself in other parts of the world, including in this region,» Rubio said.
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Rubio said Iran’s support for the Houthis reflects a broader pattern of backing armed groups across the Middle East.
«The Houthis, Hezbollah, the militias in Iraq, Hamas — this is what Iran spends its money on,» Rubio said. «It’s not on its people. It’s on supporting terrorist organizations and destabilizing actors in the region.»
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