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A meeting held on Sunday between Israeli and Syrian officials "went well" amid ongoing efforts to lower tensions between the two countries, a source familiar with the meeting told The Jerusalem Post.
Iran's top civilian officials are publicly urging an end to the ongoing conflict with the United States, exposing a deepening internal rift as they attempt to rein in hardliners who champion continued resistance.
Over 100 former French and British ambassadors called on France and the United Kingdom to "uphold international law in Palestine" and impose sanctions on Israel for its actions in Gaza and the West Bank in an open letter published on Sunday in Le Monde.
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When millions of Iranians took to the streets in January, one name repeatedly rang out among protesters: Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi.
O Irã executou neste domingo (23/08) um homem condenado por agir em nome de Israel e dos Estados Unidos durante protestos antigovernamentais em janeiro, informou o site do Judiciário iraniano.
Tom Barrack, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Syria, has suggested that Israel may have tried to provoke a confrontation with Turkey as a political calculation ahead of elections.
Incident marks apparent escalation by Tehran in its in retaliation against UK over allowing US to use British bases
Earlier this summer, in mid-July, Israel’s parliament approved a sweeping overhaul of the country’s broadcasting system.
Yoaz Hendel said on Sunday that his goal is to establish a broad Zionist government without haredi or Arab parties, arguing that only a strong Zionist Home - The Reservists could force such a coalition to be formed; he told Ron Kofman and Eli Ohana on 103FM.
The attempted suicide of a worker dismissed from one of Iran’s petrochemical companies in Mahshahr on Tuesday has exposed the growing divide between the “military men” controlling the country and Iranian civilians, an expert told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump has vowed to hit Iran hard economically, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Washington would impose measures on Tehran that have "never been seen" as soon as next week.
A terrifying fireball erupted over central Gaza on Sunday as Israel bombed a warehouse in an attack that Palestinian officials said had left a child dead.
A 14-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid on a refugee camp east of Nablus on Sunday, as Israeli military operations and settler attacks continued across the occupied West Bank and air strikes killed at least three Palestinians in central Gaza.
Al Jazeera reported earlier today that at least two had been killed in two separate Israeli attacks on Nuseirat refugee camp and Zawayda in central Gaza.
Iran has discovered over 7.5 trillion cubic feet of gas in a field south of its Fars Province, the country's oil minister, Mohsen Paknejad, said in comments carried by state media on Sunday.
Twenty-five patients and 32 accompanying family members have been evacuated from Gaza to Egypt, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing local sources.
UK Lawyers for Israel has warned the UK government that a proposed ban on trade with Israeli businesses in east Jerusalem and the West Bank would breach several of Britain’s international legal obligations.
Last week, Azerbaijan filed a lawsuit against CNN in a US federal court over what it describes as false and defamatory reporting about its role in the 2026 Iran conflict. CNN alleged that Israel had deployed military and intelligence personnel to Azerbaijan and used Azerbaijani territory for operations against Iran.
The flight delays plaguing Ben-Gurion Airport are continuing into their third day following a strike on Friday led by Israel Airports Authority (IAA) workers’ union chairman Pinchas Idan, with the chairman rejecting claims that he was responsible for the airport shutdown in an interview with KAN News on Saturday.
The Noam LeYisrael Party, led by Avi Maoz, announced on Sunday that Yisca Hayimov, the sister of Shin Bet chief David Zini, has joined the party.
A 14-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid on the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing a medical source.
Two Palestinians have been killed and seven others wounded in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp and the town of az-Zawayda in central Gaza, Al Jazeera reports, citing a source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
A small-scale British power plant was taken offline because of a cyber attack, with UK authorities blaming an Iranian-linked hacking group, The Telegraph reported on Saturday.
Georgia officially refused to implement the EU's newest sanctions against Iran, Interpress news reported on this week, with Tengiz Sharmanashvili, a member of parliament for the ruling Georgian Dream party, saying Tbilisi backs international measures only when they serve Georgian interests.
Support for Hamas has fallen sharply, but the decline has not translated into stronger backing for the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to a new survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR).
Iran has threatened to retaliate against any country that joins the United States’ “economic war” against it, as diplomatic efforts to end the months-long war have stalled and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has drastically decreased.
A small power plant in the U.K. was shut down for four days in July following a cyberattack carried out by hackers linked to Iran, The Telegraph newspaper reported Sunday.
At a moment of the ongoing Iran conflict, Israel and Turkey are escalating their competing claims and rhetoric over Syria, to the point that full-blown war is being threatened.
The Central Elections Committee approved polling stations in 159 retirement homes and assisted-living facilities on Tuesday, August 18, and asked the High Court of Justice to dismiss three petitions over voting access for elderly residents, arguing that its new arrangement has resolved the dispute.
From the start of the 14-year civil war in Syria until the fall of the Assad regime in 2024, the country's airspace was essentially a no-fly zone for the vast majority of the world's airlines.
Lebanon’s economy is projected to shrink by 6.4% in 2026 after Hezbollah’s decision to return to war with Israel wiped out the early recovery achieved in 2025, according to the latest World Bank Lebanon Economic Monitor report.
Grassroots groups preparing to put pressure on PM to break with Starmer policy and impose full arms embargo on Israel
A proposed law that would further legitimise Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces as a permanent national security institution raises concerns over the country's democratic future and state sovereignty, experts and officials told The National.
The High Court of Justice released the full NIS 78 million budget transfer for the Religious Services Ministry from a freeze on disputed government funding on Friday, but left the rest of the contested transfers blocked.
Israel claimed that the reason for its attack on the Abu al-Duhur military air base in Syria was to stop the Turkish security threat from "becoming something much bigger," a spokesperson from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced in an X/Twitter post on Friday.
Iran has been invited to join the Mecca Agreement for Mutual Defense, the new security alliance established by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan earlier this month, Al Mayadeen reported on Saturday, citing a senior Iranian official.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani says the door for diplomacy with Israel is open, urging it to seize a “historic opportunity”.
Within the Israeli occupation zone in southern Lebanon lies Kfarchouba, a village near the eastern border with Israel and one of the few villages whose residents have been permitted by the Israeli military to remain on their land.
Expanding existing oil pipelines as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz will be a major focus of talks on Monday in Paris between French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, French sources have said.
Five convoys carrying 800 tonnes of aid sent from the UAE entered Gaza this week.
Six EU countries are stepping up calls for a bloc-wide windfall tax on oil companies as profits soar due to the Middle East war, according to a letter seen by AFP Saturday.
A bomb attack has caused casualties among Syria's security forces on a bus near Damascus, in the latest violence to hit the country since the ouster of Bashar Al Assad 18 months ago.
Headlines edited by Shir Perets.
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An Israeli air attack near the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza has killed at least one person and wounded two others, Palestinian media reported.
An Israeli air strike in central Gaza has killed one Palestinian and wounded two others, Wafa news agency is reporting, citing medical sources.