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Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, an 11th-hour deal that headed off US President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization. Hours after the announcement, Iran and Gulf Arab countries reported new attacks Wednesday, though i…
Eleventh-hour pause in hostilities and global instabilities leave no room for any miscalculation that heightens distrust
Eleventh-hour pause in hostilities and global instabilities leave no room for any miscalculation that heightens distrust
(ATTN: RECASTS para 3; ADDS more info in paras 10-14)By Song Sang-ho
Iran’s chief justice demanded all executions of “enemy agents” be sped up in a jarring video leaked the same day the US secured a temporary cease-fire with war-torn Tehran.
Un simpatizante del gobierno grita consignas durante una marcha tras el anuncio de un alto el fuego de dos semanas con Estados Unidos e Israel, el miércoles 8 de abril de 2026, en Teherán, Irán. (AP Foto/Francisco Seco)
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore torched the US as the “bad guys” in the war with Iran – while hailing the Middle Eastern nation as one of the world’s “greatest civilizations” in a deranged online tirade.
When fruit grower Ali Capper woke to news that war had broken out in Iran, she says she "felt quite sick" anticipating the repurcussions for the UK farming industry.
A senior Iranian official told Al Jazeera that Tehran will “punish Israel” over what it described as violations of the ceasefire and attacks in Lebanon.
The world breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night on news of a cease-fire in the Iran war, but this is certainly no time for President Donald Trump to go wobbly.
The Trump White House is mulling ways to 'punish' NATO allies for not stepping up to support the US Iran campaign, and for staying on the sidelines after Trump's repeat appeals to create a coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
US President Donald Trump said countries supplying Iran with military equipment will face immediate 50 percent tariffs on all goods entering the United States.
A seven-year-old girl has been killed by debris from a drone shot down by Iranian air defences, according to Iranian media.
The spot price for cargos of Brent crude oil came in at $124.68 per barrel on Wednesday in a sign that the Iran ceasefire agreement is unlikely resolve the deep supply disruption triggered by the five-week war.
End the war completely'Double sided' ceasefire in Iran must be sustained and become final
A government supporter chants slogans during a gathering after the announcement of a two-week ceasefire with the United States and Israel in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
As the conflict has intensified, more energy and civilian sites have been targeted in what is seen as a broader approach
As the conflict has intensified, more energy and civilian sites have been targeted in what is seen as a broader approach
Iranians who have fled the rogue theocratic nation said lasting peace can only be achieved by overthrowing the brutal regime, which they slammed as a “cancer.”
In an early clue how the Iran war will impact energy earnings, ExxonMobil warned of a $6.5bn hit to Q1 earnings from the Iran war but said the bulk of this was the result of unfavorable timing for its accounting of hedging contracts, which would be offset as underlying transactions were eventually completed. The US …
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US must choose between a ceasefire or continuing the war through Israel.
The US was racing to salvage a ceasefire with Iran on Wednesday that appeared to collapse as a result of deadly Israeli attacks on Lebanon and an unclaimed strike on an energy facility on Iran’s Lavan Island.
US forces struck more than 13,000 targets in Iran, including most of the regime’s weapons factories and every attack drone production facility, as part of the “decisive military victory” achieved during Operation Epic Fury, according to the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is considering punishing some members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that he perceives as unhelpful to the United States during the Iran war, a report said Wednesday.
President Donald Trump is reportedly mulling ways to punish NATO members who refused to help the US in its war against Iran, which is still flaring despite the announced two-week ceasefire.
An Iranian delegation led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has arrived in Islamabad for talks with the US, as efforts to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East continue amid a fragile ceasefire.
United States Vice President JD Vance has warned Iran that it would be “dumb” to jeopardise its ceasefire with Washington over Israel’s attacks in Lebanon.
United States President Donald Trump is said to be considering withdrawing from NATO, the transatlantic alliance that has been a central pillar of Western security for decades.
Israel has offered to restrain its strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon in order to allow for the ceasefire between Iran, Israel, and the US to be successful, US Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Wednesday night.
Mediation efforts to halt the Iran war were hours from collapse when Pakistan mounted an overnight diplomatic push to secure a temporary ceasefire and bring Washington and Tehran into direct negotiations, four Pakistani sources told Reuters.
The Trump administration is considering a plan to punish some members of the NATO alliance that he believes were unhelpful to the US and Israel during the Iran war, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing administration officials.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said his party will seek passage of a resolution to stop further US military action in Iran during Thursday’s session.
“The two sides” in the US-Iran ceasefire “seem to have a dramatically different sense of what they just agreed upon,” frets National Review’s Jim Geraghty. Iran made a slate of “unrealistic demands” on uranium enrichment, control of Hormuz and sanctions relief; “a U.S. concession to just about any of them would repr…
This is definitely in you really can't make this up(!) territory... Sen. Lindsey Graham is actually calling for a Congressional vote, but not concerning a War Powers Resolution.
Two-week truce with Tehran leaves Trump mere days to finalise a deal before a legal cut-off triggers a high-stakes clash with Congress
Two-week truce with Tehran leaves Trump mere days to finalise a deal before a legal cut-off triggers a high-stakes clash with Congress
More Australians are riding bikes and trikes as the Iran war disrupts global oil supplies and drives up fuel prices. (Supplied: Trike Bike Australia)
With regime change increasingly out of reach, the US president may pivot towards a business deal with Tehran’s fractured leadership
With regime change increasingly out of reach, the US president may pivot towards a business deal with Tehran’s fractured leadership
Trump Says Opening the Strait of Hormuz ‘Should Be Easy.’ Will It?1:34
President Donald Trump has once again shown his compassion for an oppressed population by allowing Iran to agree to a cease-fire in this war (“Don’s halt on Doomsday,” April 8).
TEHRAN, Iran — A ceasefire deal to pause the war in Iran appeared to hang by a thread Wednesday after the Islamic Republic closed the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The White House demanded that the channel be reopened and sought to keep peace talks on track.
WASHINGTON — President Trump told The Post the CIA’s secret new “Ghost Murmur” tool was “very important” to rescuing a downed airman inside Iran this weekend — as leading physicists and engineers debate how the futuristic technology, said to detect heartbeats at great distance, might work.
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De izquierda a derecha: El comandante interino del Comando Cibernético de Estados Unidos, William Hartman; el director del FBI, Kash Patel; la directora de Inteligencia Nacional, Tulsi Gabbard; y el director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe, durante una audiencia de la Comisión Selecta Permanente de la Cámara de Representa…
Loyalists rush to defend president for ‘outsmarting the critics’ but others decry deal as ‘a negative for our country’
US President Donald Trump has recently escalated his rhetoric over the Iran war, using language that is unusually provocative. He warned that Iran could be “sent back to the Stone Age.” In a social media post, he went further, urging Iran to “Open the F---in' Strait,” accompanied by insults and threats that depart s…
With minutes before a self-imposed deadline – and an unprecedented threat to wipe out Iran's "civilisation" - US President Donald Trump announced that a two-week ceasefire had been agreed to halt the war.