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Head of Turkiye’s National Intelligence Organization Ibrahim Kalin met a Hamas delegation led by its new political bureau chief Khalil al-Hayya in Istanbul, according to a statement released by Hamas on Monday.
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WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said Monday that negotiations with Iran were ongoing despite Tehran's denials and the Islamic Republic was facing a "last chance before decapitation."
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Defense Minister Israel Katz emphasized that IDF Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth has not been dismissed and is performing well in his role in the military, during a meeting with heads of the local authorities from the West Bank on Monday.
Dozens of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) anti-draft protesters arrived at the home of the new head of the Ma'alot Tzur haredi enlistment program in Komemiyut on Monday night, demonstrating against the program, N12 reported.
A 76-year-old Yashar Party activist named Ilan Mans was attacked and hospitalized last week at Hemed Bridge while attempting to remove a sign that read, “Yigal Amir will be released,” according to reports from Hebrew media.
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US president also says negotiations with Tehran are ‘going on right now’ despite Tehran’s insistence no direct talks were under way
US president also says negotiations with Tehran are ‘going on right now’ despite Tehran’s insistence no direct talks were under way
US President Donald Trump on Monday scolded Chevron and Exxon for soaring profits in the second quarter, as oil prices have surged due to the Iran war.
Qatar, Egypt and Turkey released a statement on Monday criticising Israel for the intensification of its strikes on Gaza, calling them "a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law".
The Arab League secretary general has strongly condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza and accused them of attempting to sabotage the ceasefire agreement in a statement on Monday.
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Palestinos sentados en una larga mesa entre los escombros de edificios destruidos mientras rompen el ayuno del Ramadán, el jueves 19 de febrero de 2026, en Jan Yunis, Franja de Gaza. (AP Foto/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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An Israeli strike on a civilian car southwest of Gaza City killed two Palestinians and injured several others on Monday night.
Israeli settlers carried out attacks on Palestinians in an area south of Nablus on Monday night, setting fire to agricultural land in the town of Beita and attacking Palestinian vehicles with stones near the village of Burin.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Monday that talks with Iran are in progress, stressing that the two sides are discussing the reopening of the crucial Strait of Hormuz "literally" by the following day, although Tehran earlier denied any plans for negotiations with Washington.
Iranian Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh said on Monday that Iran has an economic resilience plan for at least the next two years, according to Fars news.
US president expects negotiations to begin in next day or two but Iran says it is not reviving talks with Washington
The Trump administration seems to be struggling to figure out how to get out of its self-made Iran quagmire.
The Trump administration seems to be struggling to figure out how to get out of its self-made Iran quagmire.
The UAE secretly pushed for the sale of Israeli drones by Elbit Systems following an attack on Abu Dhabi by Yemen’s Houthis in 2022, according to leaked emails reported by Haaretz and Drop Site News.
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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Palestinians try to extinguish a burning car after an Israeli military strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Three of the four major Arab parties - Hadash, Ta'al and Balad - are expected to officially revive the Joint List this week without Ra'am, while also unveiling their new Knesset slate, Hadash-Ta'al's recently appointed chairman Yousef Jabareen told The Jerusalem Post in a Monday interview.
The UAE secretly pushed for the sale of Israeli drones by Elbit Systems following an attack on Abu Dhabi by Yemen’s Houthis in 2022, according to leaked emails reported by Haaretz and Drop Site News.
During a press conference outside the Oval Office on Monday, Trump told reporters that he is not going to let Iran impose fees on the Strait of Hormuz.
The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem published a report in late June 2026 titled Unshielded Childhood, which cataloged and analyzed the deaths of 54 Palestinian minors killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank during 2025. The report immediately circulated widely through global media outlets, framing the f…
Tel Aviv Vice Mayor Guy Avner challenged New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to a boxing match, citing the American mayor’s anti-Israel statements and accusing him of fomenting hatred towards the Jewish people.
President Donald Trump said Monday that ExxonMobil and Chevron made too much money as crude oil prices rose due to the Iran war.
Trump has said that talks with Iran are ongoing and said that it was Tehran’s “last chance” to make a deal, despite Iran earlier contradicting that discussions are taking place.
Aerial photo shows Shiite pilgrims gathering between the illuminated holy shrine of Imam Hussein and the holy shrine of Imam Abbas, ahead for Arbaeen, the annual Shiite commemoration marking 40 days after Ashura, in Karbala, Iraq, late Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
US President Donald Trump’s "Board of Peace" said on Monday that an essential prerequisite of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza is Hamas’s “complete” disarmament, after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Palestinian Minister for Foreign Affairs Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said on Monday that the violence of Israeli settlers and the expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank, which has accelerated in recent years, are not separate phenomena but “two complementary pillars of Israel’s illegal colonial project” to …
An elderly Palestinian was injured after being attacked by Israeli settlers, who pepper-sprayed him while he was on his land in the Abu Njeim area, southeast of Bethlehem, according to Wafa news, citing local sources.
Six religious Jews have been arrested after attacking the historic St. James Armenian Monastery in Jerusalem’s Old City, according to Israeli police.
United States President Donald Trump has described Iran’s leadership as “unbelievably duplicitous”, saying Tehran asked for talks to end the war and then announced that no discussions were being held.
Lebanese authorities arrested the former Palestinian ambassador to Beirut on Monday, ahead of his extradition to Palestine to face corruption charges, a Lebanese judicial official told AFP.
The Israeli army has said that it killed Mahmoud Fatair, whom it said was the commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, in a strike on central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah area over the weekend.
Hopes for a renewed push for peace in Gaza hung in the balance on Monday as US President Donald Trump's envoy visited Israel following one of the deadliest days in the Palestinian territory since a ceasefire halted two years of all-out war last October.
When Palestinian rapper Shabjdeed released "SLV" on Saturday, a blistering diss track aimed at fellow artist Saint Levant, listeners initially treated it as the start of another celebrity feud.
Palestinian Christian leaders called out American Christian Zionists for ignoring the experiences of Palestinian Christians in Israel, claiming their interpretation of "biblical prophecy" doesn't align with reality in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
Twenty anti-Israel pro-terror organizations in the US have raised more than $250 million in cumulative funding over five years, the Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Ministry revealed in a new report.
Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is protected under freedom of expression, a German court has ruled, according to the legal journal Beck-aktuell.
Mohammad Karami, ground forces commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said on Monday that fighters are standing ready in northwestern Iran to respond to any threats from “extra-regional enemies or terrorist groups”.
Trump pauses ‘massive attack’ on Iran, says new talks to begin
The first Cooking Peace summer camp program wrapped up at the Ben Shemen Youth Village in central Israel with some forty teens, split between Jews and Arabs, concluding the week-long culinary program at a graduation ceremony on Friday.