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Electronics manufacturer ESC BAZ recently presented what it described as a series of groundbreaking capabilities for border protection and the defense of strategic facilities to senior IDF officers and top officials in Israel's defense establishment.
Bret Stephens, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist known as one of the paper’s most consistent defenders of Israel, used his Tuesday column to take direct aim at the country’s handling of settler violence in the West Bank, warning that unchecked attacks now pose a threat to Israel’s security and to Z…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that US President Donald Trump is in full control of the war with Iran after disclosing that the two leaders discussed options to resolve the conflict in their recent meeting in Washington, ABC News reported on Thursday.
Iraq has appealed for closer transport and logistics co-operation with the UAE and other Gulf states, arguing that deeper economic integration can help build “lasting and sustainable peace” in a region grappling with the fallout of the Iran war.
The path of key interest rates in the United States appears to remain uncertain due to persistent inflation and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, the finance ministry said Thursday.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the US would hit Iran "very hard" after an attack on the US military in Jordan.
Ahead of the 26th Knesset elections, scheduled for October 27, 2026, TikTok has published new guidelines for politicians, political parties, public figures, and content creators.
The US military says it has begun launching strikes against Iran in retaliation for an attempted surprise attack on American forces in the Middle East.
SEOUL, July 30 (Yonhap) -- The path of key interest rates in the United States appears to remain uncertain due to persistent inflation and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, the finance ministry said Thursday.
The US has launched a “powerful” bombing raid against Iran after President Donald Trump warned that it was “our turn to hit them,” following Tehran’s ballistic missile attack on American forces in Jordan the previous night.
The U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran at 8 p.m. Wednesday stateside, retaliating against Iranian missile attacks on American forces in the region, raising the specter of escalating conflict after a brief pause.
SEOUL, July 30 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to leave interest rates unchanged in a split vote has heightened uncertainty over the future path of U.S. monetary policy, while persistent Middle East tensions continue to pose risks to financial markets, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said Thursday.
US announces attacks early on Thursday, as experts say strikes carried out by both sides in previous day increase risk of return to all-out war
Here we go again... after months ago President Trump urgently pushed for an international naval alliance to 'open' the Strait of Hormuz amid the Iran war, which was met with at the time with a collective cold shoulder from European allies, the Saudis are newly pitching the same to open up the Bab al Mandab Strait.
Israel's education system is short 3,000 educators and 200 kindergarten teachers, including 100 in special education, as of the end of July, according to a report from KAN News.
A 57-year-old man from Yavne was indicted for running a cannabis-growing operation containing approximately 423 kilograms of the drug out of a rented villa in Migdal.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the Iran war with the leaders of the Evangelical community, who he met on Wednesday during his trip to Washington.
Saudi Arabia is seeking to build an international coalition to protect shipping in the Red Sea from attacks by Yemen’s Houthis, people familiar with the deliberations have told the Reuters news agency.
The Canadian government has issued a statement reaffirming its opposition to Israeli expansion in the occupied West Bank, where settlers have carried out widespread and violent attacks on Palestinian communities.
In less than 24 hours last week, four Palestinians were killed and several were injured across the occupied West Bank, as settler attacks spread to multiple villages, leaving homes, vehicles and other property damaged and burned.
Iraq’s National Security Council has condemned Wednesday’s Saudi-US strikes against the Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), which killed at least 20 members of the Iraqi paramilitary group.
Indian state-owned and private companies shipped at least 2,596 consignments comprising hundreds of thousands of arms, ammunition and military components to Israel during the genocide in Gaza, a new Amnesty International report has revealed. The shipments, sent between 7 October 2023 and 30 November 2025, included m…
US President Donald Trump has vowed to hit Iran “very hard” after Tehran launched ballistic missiles at American forces in Jordan and a drone reportedly struck a US-owned liquefied natural gas storage vessel at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Khalil al-Hayya, the newly elected head of Hamas’s political bureau on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reported, citing Turkish Foreign Ministry sources.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would strike back at Iran after a recent attack that targeted a military base in Jordan, as the war in the Middle East flared up again following a pause in hostilities.
Support for both the Yashar! party and Likud increased this week, while backing for Naftali Bennett continued to decline, a Channel 13 News poll published on Wednesday showed.
Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar! party forced Yonatan Urich, a close adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday to delete an AI generated video showing US President Donald Trump and Netanyahu joking in Hebrew at Eisenkot’s expense.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) has highlighted the extensive military assets being used to enforce the American blockade of Iranian ports, illustrating the scale of Washington’s effort to isolate Iran while maintaining freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
The tensions between the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Iranian-backed militias in Iraq entered a new phase this week after joint US-Saudi airstrikes targeted Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) facilities across Iraq.
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President Trump has repeatedly said that China's President Xi Jinping has directly assured him that Beijing will not supply Iran with weaponry or military support.
Saudi Arabia is seeking to build an international coalition to protect shipping in the Red Sea from Houthi attacks, two people familiar with the deliberations said on Wednesday.
Thu 30 Jul 2026 at 7:16am
In 2002, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, described a series of mostly anti-Israel actions on and beyond campus as “antisemitic in their effect if not their intent.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump attend the dignified transfer of four U.S. service members recently killed in the Middle East, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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Lebanese judicial authorities issued a warrant Wednesday seeking the arrest of influential businessman Antoun Sehnaoui accused of meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid Israel's war on Lebanon.
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The Iran conflict and the Russian war against Ukraine appear to be converging more in recent weeks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in Washington on July 28 alongside Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They held separate meetings with US President Donald Trump.
LONDON, United Kingdom — A Norwegian teenager was found guilty Wednesday in the UK of conspiring to commit murder for Sweden's most notorious criminal network, whose founder has reported links to Iran.
Oil prices are back to jumping as Middle East tensions escalate, while the Federal Reserve kept interest rates on hold, with three of the central bank’s rate-setting committee dissenting.
The United States on Wednesday announced new sanctions targeting entities linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that it accused of extorting ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
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Mourners carry the coffin of an Iranian adviser draped in the Iranian flag during a group funeral for Iranian advisers and Popular Mobilization Forces fighters killed in airstrikes on bases belonging to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of predominantly Shiite militias that includes Iran-backed groups,…
Israel First Party leader MK Sharren Haskel said her newly launched party would need only six Knesset seats to reshape the country’s next government after the upcoming elections.
Thu 30 Jul 2026 at 4:57am
Saudi Arabia is facing a difficult dilemma. Ever since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran on 28 February, the Saudis have largely tried to stay out of it.