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The US Treasury Department has sanctioned a Turkish bank that allegedly conducted transactions for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force.
Microsoft signed a contract worth more than $100m with the Israeli government in 2024, according to documents published on the Israeli Ministry of Finance’s Hebrew-language website, Middle East Eye can reveal.
US President Donald Trump and his Vice President JD Vance have met a group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis, among them members of sects that are anti-Israel.
Hundreds of people gathered in southern Iran on Thursday for the funeral of four people who Iranian state media said were killed in a strike on a wedding ceremony.
MOTORISTS are in for a big spike in fuel prices next week, as the global oil market continues to react to mounting tensions in the Middle East and Russia, local oil industry sources said on Friday.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights has condemned comments by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz about a plan to forcefully relocate large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza.
The three-year anniversary of the October 7, 2023, attack is approaching in Israel, and despite everything that has happened since – including wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran – the memory of the assault continues to play a defining role in how Israelis view their place in the Middle East.
Israel’s Right is conducting an experiment in political self-sabotage.
The US and its allies Britain, France and Germany are pushing other countries on the UN nuclear watchdog's board to pass a resolution next week reporting Iran to the UN Security Council for the first time in 20 years, diplomats said on Friday.
Leading members of Jewish civil society groups have written to British Prime Minister Andy Burnham urging him to adopt stronger measures on Israel and "oppose any further attempts to muzzle the Palestine marches".
Microsoft signed a contract worth more than $100m with the Israeli government in 2024, according to documents published on the Israeli Ministry of Finance’s Hebrew-language website, Middle East Eye can reveal.
The IDF is set to carry out a series of strikes on Lebanon in the coming hours, the security department of the Upper Galilee Regional Council announced Friday evening.
Unity Party chairman Gilad Erdan announced he is withdrawing from Israel's 2026 election race on Friday.
Israel’s military actions resulting in the displacement of entire Palestinian populations in three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank “appear to amount to collective punishment and raise concerns of ethnic cleansing”, a United Nations Human Rights report has found.
An Israeli drone strike has targeted Ali al-Taher hill in southern Lebanon, according to Al Jazeera.
The United States has rejected calls by top Israeli officials that the Palestinians should be removed from Gaza in a rare public display of disagreement with Israel.
Oil was on course for a weekly gain of more than 5 per cent on Friday as the US and Iran continued to exchange fire in a conflict now in its seventh month.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters at the G20 Finance Ministerial in Asheville, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Four Lebanese citizens who were held in Israel have been released and handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the day after a first prisoner was freed.
"It's my burden. I was born into it." Eyal Weizman is a leading architect, author, and the founder of Forensic Architecture, whose evidence has fed directly into South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. His new book, Ungrounding, traces the destruction of Gaza back to the Nakba of 1948 and argues that…
A senior official from South Korea's presidential office said the government is considering various options in the Strait of Hormuz. (Photo by Yosuke Onchi)
Iranian diplomat Mojtaba Ferdowsi Pour has said that countries in the Middle East must not permit the use of their territory and airspace as a launchpad for attacks on Iran.
An 84-year-old retired priest known for her climate change and pro-Palestine activism had her home raided by British police on Friday, according to the campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ).
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on X Friday that the EU has "officially joined" Operation Economic Outcast, the sweeping US sanctions campaign to cut Iran out of the international banking system and completely isolate it from the global economy.
Iraq remains one of Iran’s most important regional economic and financial links as Washington expands pressure on Tehran and entities accused of supporting it. Iraq’s close political and commercial ties with Iran, along with the influence of Iran-backed armed groups in parts of the economy, give Tehran access to tra…
You are a soldier, tasked with searching a house for a suspected terrorist and hidden weapons. The house is full of women, children, and an elderly, sick, bedridden man.
United States Vice President JD Vance has expressed scepticism about reports of a deadly US attack on a wedding party in the Iranian town of Kuhestak on Tuesday this week, saying he does not trust Iran’s narrative.
CHICAGO — Diesel hit a record price in the U.S. on Friday, soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time as the six-month war with Iran disrupts the world’s flow of fuel.
Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has told his lawyer that he is still being beaten in detention by his Israeli guards.
By infiltrating phones, tracking communications and piecing together intelligence across the border, Lebanese and Syrian security authorities uncovered a cell accused of plotting attacks inside Syria.
The price of diesel fuel hit a record Friday as the wars in Ukraine and Iran knock out refineries, triggering a global supply crunch.
Funerals have taken place for two Palestinian teenagers who were shot dead this week when settlers and soldiers entered a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has told his lawyer that he is still being beaten in detention by his Israeli guards.
Family-run Al-Qarara Seed Bank is striving to help Palestinians gain sovereignty over their food security
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Egypt, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations, marked his first trip to the Middle East in four years and the first to Egypt in a decade.
Senator releases letters from armed forces after reports of location data being used to track US troops in Middle East
The writer-director once called Israel’s ‘one-man New Wave’ is in Venice with The Road to Jericho, a new and poetic attempt to highlight the plight of those in the occupied West Bank
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has blasted his Jordanian counterpart for criticising Iran's retaliatory strikes on countries in the region.
Israel’s National Security Minister has presented a plan to illegally expel all Gazans to foreign countries, a policy he claimed was “realistic”.
After the devastation of Gaza, can elections really matter?
Two little-known oil traders, Vitol and Heritage Petroleum FZCO, have emerged as two of the top suppliers of crude to Israel during its genocide in Gaza, according to a new report by Oil Change International (OCI) and the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO).
As the United States and Iran exchanged attacks this week, one date was increasingly looming over the conflict.
Two incidents occurred this week: one that filled me with despair, and one with hope.
Two little-known oil traders, Vitol and Heritage Petroleum FZCO, have emerged as two of the top suppliers of crude to Israel during its genocide in Gaza, according to a new report by Oil Change International (OCI) and the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO).
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Vice President JD Vance blamed Iran for rising gas prices and said he “won’t make a promise” about when they might fall. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had predicted prices could hit $3 a gallon by Labor Day. Gas prices are now averaging above $4 a gallon.
Un hombre descansa en un banco junto a la costa mientras, por detrás, buques comerciales esperan fondeados en el estrecho de Ormuz, frente a la costa de Bandar Abbas, Irán, el 4 de septiembre de 2026. (AP Foto/Vahid Salemi)
US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by US Senator Ron Wyden and statements given to Reuters, a development that follows reports that commercially available location data had been used to target American forces i…
Several homes in the town of Gva'ot in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank were evacuated on Friday after a fire broke out nearby, according to the Israel Fire and Rescue Authority.