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Palestinians salvage their belongings from the rubble of a building and tents destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Thursday, July 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Hamas said Friday it had agreed to a deal announced by US President Donald Trump to end the war with Israel, that includes it handing over its weapons to a Palestinian governing committee and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
ExxonMobil and Chevron on Friday reported second-quarter profits that surged on rising oil prices due to the Iran war.
An agreement for the "complete disarmament" of Hamas in Gaza can only be agreed if the U.S. and Israel honor past commitments they have made, an official with the group has said.
Police arrested Avraham Hadi, a Ramat Gan man in his 40s, on Thursday on suspicion of smashing the glass entrance doors of the Channel 12 News building in Tel Aviv and leaving a threatening letter at the newsroom entrance.
Iran is suspected of being behind a cyberattack targeting over 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota this week, The Washington Post reported on Friday, citing unnamed US officials.
The 14 members of the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion who led the mass walkout on the Sde Teiman military base on Thursday were sentenced on Friday to 30 days in military prison and removal from combat service, according to the military.
The choreography surrounding the Netanyahu-Trump meeting has fueled speculation about a widening rift, but the more important question is whether Israel and the US remain coordinated on Iran
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed his criticism of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has said the Israeli leader could be arrested on war-crimes charges if he visits the city.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed his criticism of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has said the Israeli leader could be arrested on war-crimes charges if he visits the city.
Ultra-Orthodox (haredi) demonstrators in Jerusalem harassed IDF soldiers and Border Police officers in two separate instances on Thursday night, according to footage shared on social media.
Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas official involved in negotiations tells Reuters that the group will hand over its weapons to the new National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), the technocratic body set up to run the enclave within the Board of Peace framework.
Iran is suggesting that Wednesday's unprecedented drone attack on a US-owned gas-processing vessel moored at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta was a false flag.
The IMF approved $1.8 billion in funding to Egypt following a review of two reform programmes, bringing total disbursements to $7.3 billion.
Two people have been wounded in an Israeli drone strike targeting a group of people near Khadija mosque in northern Gaza City, Al Jazeera is reporting.
A senior Hamas official has said that the Palestinian movement will not take any steps toward disarmament before Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza.
Robert Del Naja is one of the band members of Massive Attack (file picture)
Al Jazeera reports that an Israeli drone has struck a group of people in northern Gaza City.
Turkey is interested in participating in a new security initiative for Lebanon when the UN peacekeeping mission in the country's south expires at the end of the year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after meeting his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun in Ankara.
Iran announced on Friday that it had targeted United States military assets at Kuwait’s Ahmad Al-Jaber airbase, describing the attack as retaliation for US strikes a day earlier.
A dual British-Azerbaijani national has been arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of spying on a British air base on the Mediterranean island and passing information to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, London police said on Friday.
How is a news outlet supposed to report on war casualties? This question is particularly worth asking when it comes to a news outlet that promises its readers journalistic professionalism “without fear or favor”, and even defines itself as "a newspaper of record", or a media outlet whose information archive is suppo…
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Hamas said on Friday it agreed to a deal to end the war with Israel that included provisions addressing its weapons and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.
A rejuvenated Benjamin Netanyahu returned home to Israel Thursday from Washington, having crossed off everything on his diplomatic shopping list.
Hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered the Oval Office on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump publicly questioned why the Israeli leader had announced that he was bringing new intelligence about an Iranian site known as Pickaxe Mountain.
O Hamas anunciou nesta sexta-feira (31/07) que aceitou um acordo divulgado pelo presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, para encerrar a guerra em Gaza. A proposta prevê o desarmamento gradual do grupo, a retirada das tropas israelenses e a transferência da administração do territóriopara uma autoridade palestin…
Boy George has withdrawn from a West End production of Jesus Christ Superstar, days after releasing a pro-Israel song that sparked widespread backlash online.
During his visit to Washington last week, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called for ending the state of hostility between Lebanon and Israel “forever”. He embraced counterinsurgency rather than liberation politics; by identifying sovereignty with disarming non-state actors, rather than freedom from settler-coloniali…
Israeli forces have carried out a series of powerful detonations near Lebanon’s UNESCO-listed Beaufort Castle, as they continue to occupy southern Lebanon despite a United States-brokered “ceasefire” agreement.
If Israel does not approve and endorse the Board of Peace's disarmament deal with Hamas, the terror group will refuse to implement it, a Hamas official told Reuters on Friday.
“I want to tell them that it is possible to establish 100 public diplomacy offices around the world at no cost to the State of Israel.”
Prosecutors filed an indictment in Central District Court on Thursday against Benjamin Yosef Haim Friedrich, 36, on charges of murdering 75-year-old Kabbalist Rabbi Amos Guetta under aggravated circumstances, Walla reported on Thursday.
A U-2 spy aircraft prepares for landing at the U.K.'s RAF Akrotiri air base near Limassol, Cyprus, on March 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
Likud gained two seats this week, rising to 22, amid Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, his meeting with US President Donald Trump, and the party’s campaign against the Democrats following their primaries.
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Almost three years after October 7, Israel continues to face one of the most severe manpower shortages in its history. Yet after two years of unprecedented legal pressure, economic sanctions, mass draft orders, and repeated Supreme Court intervention directed at the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community, enlistment has …
The world is bombarded with contradictory messages, and the messengers seem more confused by the day: Iran won, the US won, Israel lost, US President Donald Trump caved, Vice President JD Vance took over. Let’s ask a few simple questions: Who is in a better position today than on October 7, 2023?
Washington has been working to ensure that the Trump-backed Hamas disarmament plan prevents another October 7-style attack, senior US officials told reporters during a Thursday evening press conference.
Within only the first week of Operation Epic Fury there was concern that war spillover could reach all the way into the Mediterranean, after Iranian Shahed drones believed launched by Hezbollah in Lebanon targeted UK airbases in Cyprus. On March 1-2, 2026, an Iranian-made drone struck a hangar and runway at the RAF …
Iran's army said on Friday it had launched attacks on strategic U.S. assets and military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, following the latest wave of U.S. strikes against the Islamic Republic.
Rashad Sultanov has been accused of carrying out spying on RAF Akrotiri
In today’s episode of Trending Middle East, US President Donald Trump announces that the Gaza Board of Peace has secured an agreement for the "complete disarmament" of Hamas.
Israelis across political and religious lines are worried about the weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans — whom a recent AP poll showed tend to consider support for Israel less crucial to their Jewish identity than older adults. Lesley Sachs, who has protested the current Israeli government and chairs …
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US President Donald Trump and his Gaza Board of Peace announced a deal had been reached for the complete disarmament of Hamas and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the enclave.
Israeli forces carried out "violent explosions" overnight in the southern Lebanese towns of Yahmar al-Shaqif, located near the strategic Beaufort Castle, Arnoun and Kfar Tebnit, the National News Agency reported.
Response from Hamas and Israeli officials suggest Gaza deal still faces obstacles; Tehran launches drone strikes at Kuwait in retaliation for recent US attacks