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With Fauda’s new season about to drop on Netflix on September 8, you may be looking for some Middle Eastern action drama while you’re waiting, and one option is the classic commando movie The Delta Force, directed by Menahem Golan. It’s available in Israel on Apple TV and streaming platforms around the world.
When Ilana Mittman, a retired social scientist with American and Israeli citizenship, began arranging a trip to Israel from her home in Baltimore, she planned to observe her late father’s Yahrzeit and cast her ballot in the national elections on Oct. 27. Checking her voter registration status online, she made a star…
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor and Israel Land Fund (ILF) founder Arieh King was prevented from traveling to Canada this week after Canadian authorities canceled his electronic travel authorization (eTA).
Finland has chosen not to renew its multi-year funding agreement with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after it expires this year, Finnish Foreign Trade Minister Ville Tavio announced on Thursday.
An Israeli drone strike hit an area near an orphanage between the southern Lebanon towns of Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Mayfadoun, National News Agency reported.
US Democrats on Friday slammed the Trump administration for dragging out the war on Iran to its six month anniversary, warning Republicans would pay the price in the upcoming midterm elections.
Donald Trump came back to the White House claiming to have a good relationship with Vladimir Putin, vowing to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. (Reuters: Evan Vucci)
Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said he had banned people from "committing anything that harms social cohesion" and urged authorities to avoid any “discouraging statements that weaken national and public motivation," in a written statement published on Friday.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has said the Israeli military evacuated the residents and occupied the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank.
By Mishel Bychkova, vice president at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Moscow
By Mishel Bychkova, vice president at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Moscow
NewsPrevious slideNext slide Musicians prepare to perform in the opening ceremony of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, in Mongolia. AFPShow caption: Musicians prepare to perform in the opening ceremony of the … People run for cover after Israel launches strikes on Gaza City.
It was the crumbling stone wall that did it. For a decade, the 50-metre stretch of wall along Ardeh’s main road deteriorated, threatening to fall on the hundreds of vehicles that pass through the village in northern Lebanon's Zgharta district each day.
Mohammed Shamlakh and his siblings are reviving their 1.2-hectare plot with grapevines and fig trees, after it was destroyed by Israeli military bulldozers in the Sheikh Ajlin neighbourhood in Gaza city.
It was the crumbling stone wall that did it. For a decade, the 50-metre stretch of wall along Ardeh’s main road deteriorated, threatening to fall on the hundreds of vehicles that pass through the village in northern Lebanon's Zgharta district each day.
For some time, I have argued that the cognitive war being waged against Israel must be recognized for what it has become: A national-security threat.
I began my foreign correspondent career in 1990 in Romania, just weeks after its communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, was overthrown. The new government called itself the National Salvation Front.
The US Treasury Department proposed on Friday to revoke Banque Misr UAE’s correspondent banking access to US financial institutions, calling it a “critical node” in the Iranian regime’s access to US dollars.
A transgender Israeli woman who served in Israel’s military intelligence directorate is facing deportation from the US after being convicted of imprisonment.
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei told officials on Friday to stop publicising problems and instead highlight the country's “power and strength”, in the latest sign of a leadership rift in Tehran.
The president’s ‘little excursion’ in the Middle East grinds on, despite his earlier promise to voters to keep the US out of ‘endless wars’
The president’s ‘little excursion’ in the Middle East grinds on, despite his earlier promise to voters to keep the US out of ‘endless wars’
Levels of violence are lower than earlier this year, but the situation in south Lebanon "remains fragile," the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) has warned on Friday.
A transgender Israeli woman who served in Israel’s military intelligence directorate is facing deportation from the US after being convicted of imprisonment.
The failure of both sides to adhere to the roadmap for peace “threatens a collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza”, Nikolay Mladenov, the high representative for the Board of Peace, has warned in an interview with Al Jazeera.
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – In a clothing shop in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Firas Zaqloul stands helplessly as he tries to pay for his purchases.
Israeli attacks have killed at least five Palestinians in multiple strikes across the Gaza Strip, including three members of the same family.
Israeli strikes killed five people in Gaza on Friday, authorities in the Strip said, in the latest day of attacks despite international appeals to move ahead on a peace plan.
Academics at the University of Cambridge privately argued in 2024 that Nathan Cofnas, who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism last month, should not have been hired, Middle East Eye has learnt.
TEHRAN — Iran left the door open to diplomacy on Friday, six months into a war with the United States that has upended the Middle East, but only if Washington abandons its pressure campaign.
Israel on Friday carried out a rare air strike in the occupied West Bank, and said it had killed a Hamas operative and two accomplices.
TOKYO — Toyota Motor said on Friday its global vehicle sales and production fell in July, weighed by declines in China, the United States and the Middle East, which offset a stronger performance in Japan.
Six months after the United States and Israel attacked Iran, a lot may have been destroyed but there is no end in sight to the conflict.
The Treasury Department on Friday moved to sanction the United Arab Emirates branch of an Egyptian bank over its financial ties to Iran.
The United States issued more Iran-related sanctions targeting one entity and one individual on Friday, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier this week threatened further action amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at a news conference, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Around a dozen Israeli activists gathered outside European Union representative offices in east Jerusalem on 28 August, calling on the bloc to take a stronger position on the war in Gaza. Holding placards and chanting through a megaphone, the protesters accused the EU of remaining silent over what they described as …
Iran has become stronger while the US has exposed its weakness during the conflict in the Middle East, which is still far from over, experts have told RT on the day marking six months since Washington and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic.
Iran has become stronger while the US has exposed its weakness during the conflict in the Middle East, which is still far from over, experts have told RT on the day marking six months since Washington and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic.
Washington's move to designate Palestine Action as a transnational terrorist organisation could place British activists associated with the group at heightened risk of surveillance and being frozen out of the financial system, campaigners warn.
Some moments in the history of liberation movements require courage to act; others require equal courage to wait.
Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced a new plan to judaise the Negev, or Naqab in Arabic, and the Galilee, vowing to replicate in Israel policies that he has pursued in the occupied West Bank.
At least four people were killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to local health officials. Three men died in separate strikes in Gaza City, with their bodies taken to Shifa Hospital, while another person was killed when a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians was hit in southern Gaz…
Brent crude futures initially jumped overnight after The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump has no interest in reviving the memorandum of understanding (interim peace deal) reached with Iran in June. The war-risk premium in Brent has since faded in New York premarket trading amid mounting developments…
Washington's move to designate Palestine Action as a transnational terrorist organisation could place British activists associated with the group at heightened risk of surveillance and being frozen out of the financial system, campaigners warn.
The IDF killed a former Jenin terror cell leader and two additional terrorists in an IAF airstrike on their vehicle in the West Bank on Friday, the military confirmed in a joint statement with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
US President Donald Trump is apparently suffering from “schizophrenia” and “delusions” over his claims that the Strait of Hormuz belongs to Washington, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi has said.
US President Donald Trump is apparently suffering from “schizophrenia” and “delusions” over his claims that the Strait of Hormuz belongs to Washington, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi has said.