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Iran is currently working to enrich uranium at Pickaxe Mountain, and is harboring centrifuges there, a senior diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
Topic:Law, Crime and Justice
Damaged structures at the site of an airstrike on a Popular Mobilization Forces base in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)
The United Arab Emirates, thanks to years of anticipatory planning, is not in a position where it will need to bow to the Islamic Republic’s demands to administer and charge fees for the crossing of the Strait of Hormuz, former Emirati diplomat Obaid al-Zaabi told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid asked Democratic US senators not to "give up" on Israel during a meeting in Washington on Wednesday, Lapid's office confirmed.
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Operations at Iraq’s primary deep-water port of Umm Qasr have come to a standstill, disrupting one of the country’s main trade gateways.
El piloto de McLaren Lando Norris lidera en la largada del Gran Premio de Hungría, el domingo 26 de julio de 2026. (AP Foto/Darko Bandic)
LONDON (AP) — A Norwegian teenager was convicted in a London court on Wednesday of traveling to Britain to carry out a contract killing on behalf of an international crime gang linked to Iran.
A mock “wanted” poster of Lebanese bank owner Antoun Sehnaoui, left, plastered by depositors protesters outside the Lebanese Central Bank, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. More than a dozen Lebanese lawyers on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, filed a complaint at the prosecutors’ office in Beirut on Wednesday aga…
Iraq vowed on Wednesday to defend its sovereignty and to prevent its territory from being used against neighbouring countries following deadly US-Saudi strikes on the country.
Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War
ADÍS ABEBA, Etiopía (AP) — Cinco etíopes fueron ejecutados en Arabia Saudí esta semana por cargos relacionados con drogas, tras un juicio que presuntamente no respetó el debido proceso y duró unos minutos sin un traductor, según Human Rights Watch.
The Israeli military bombed a mosque in Gaza, accusing the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Wednesday of using it to store weapons.
The UN human rights office on Wednesday warned of worsening violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and urged international action against the killing of Palestinians as well as the creation of settlements, which it said had reached an all-time high.
Lebanon’s president said on Tuesday, alongside US President Donald Trump in Washington, that his country’s ultimate objective is to end the state of hostility with Israel once and for all.
The IDF detained three Israeli activists from the "HaBashan Pioneers" settler movement after they breached the Syrian border in the Mount Hermon area on Tuesday, the military announced on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s White House meeting with US President Donald Trump marked their seventh face-to-face meeting since Trump returned to office 18 months ago. The stakes were high. Nerves are frayed. The standoff with Iran is stressful – last weekend, so many Americans and Israelis were sure a massiv…
Lebanese Forces are struggling against legal restrictions that prevent them from searching private properties in pilot zones, areas that the military is expected to ensure remain free of Hezbollah as part of a US-brokered agreement between Beirut and Jerusalem, according to Lebanese media reports.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Five Ethiopians were executed in Saudi Arabia this week on drug-related charges following a trial that allegedly did not follow due process and lasted a few minutes without a translator, according to Human Rights Watch.
An Iraqi government source told Al-Jazeera that a planned trip by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to Saudi Arabia on Thursday has been postponed.
US Senator Lindsey Graham and Benjamin Netanyahu conspired to use sexual misconduct allegations against the International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor to try and delay the court's arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister, it has emerged.
DAMASCUS - As the deadline for exchanging banknotes issued during the rule of former president Bashar Assad approaches, the Central Bank of Syria says around 80% of the old currency has been exchanged since the beginning of the year.
The Israeli military was about to launch a nighttime strike on a group of men in southern Syria when the soldiers noticed the long curls dangling from the temples of their targets.
Prosecutors said Natland had been recruited by the Foxtrot Network, a Swedish organised crime group used by the Iranian state
Prosecutors said Natland had been recruited by the Foxtrot Network, a Swedish organised crime group used by the Iranian state
US Central Command said overnight that US and Saudi forces had struck Iran-backed terrorists in Iraq. The Iranian-backed militias in Iraq had been targeting Saudi Arabia over the last several days from July 26 to July 28.
One of the new developments in the recent conflict with Iran has been that Iran and its militias have increasingly targeted the Kingdom of Jordan. This has included ballistic missile attacks and also drone threats to the country. Americans have been killed in these attacks.
A man serving in a classified unit in the IDF was indicted about two weeks ago on suspicion of spying for Iran, the court permitted for publication on Wednesday.
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President Trump vowed Wednesday to “beat the f—king s—t out of” Iran in response to a surprise missile attack by the Islamic Republic targeting US troops stationed in Jordan.
The few days of calm that persisted over last weekend since Friday are already a thing of the past, as tit-for-tat serious attacks between the US and Iran return, and now involving the Saudis and proxy militants in Iraq.
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A group of lawyers has filed a case in a Beirut court against Lebanese banker Antoun Sehnaoui after he hosted a dinner and shared a table with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
US equity futures are higher, overlooking both tech-led declines in Asia which saw the Kospi crash as much as 13% and trigger a second consecutive 20 minute market-wide halt, and the 5% jump in oil prices which has pushed Brent over $88. As of 7:30am ET, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 contracts are each up 0.2%, reversing s…
McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain, left, leads the field after the start during the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix auto race, at the Hungaroring racetrack in Mogyorod, near Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Formula One remains committed to holding Qatar and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix in 2026 despite the continuing conflict in the Middle East.
Researchers identify damage patterns that reveal vulnerabilities in fixed overseas military installations and operational shortcomings
Researchers identify damage patterns that reveal vulnerabilities in fixed overseas military installations and operational shortcomings
Brenda Hollis, the US prosecutor who supervised the International Criminal Court (ICC) team that built the war crimes cases against Israeli and Hamas leaders, has defended Karim Khan's handling of the Palestine investigation, rejecting the Israeli claim that the arrest warrant applications were rushed to distract fr…
Iraq’s Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba has warned that US and Saudi interests will face consequences after the two countries jointly attacked armed groups across Iraq.
A month after learning she was pregnant, Sahar al-Majdalawi began suffering agonising abdominal pain that left her screaming in distress.
Gulf monarchies are hitting international debt markets at a record-shattering pace, Bloomberg figures show, amid a conflict-driven rush to harden domestic infrastructure and forge alternative supply corridors that bypass the vulnerable and effectively closed Strait of Hormuz. Added to this, just this month, Red Sea …
US and Saudi Arabia strike 'Iran-aligned' groups in Iraq
Persian-language rapper Mahnam Navab Safavi was sentenced to death last week by a Revolutionary Court in Isfahan, according to human rights organizations and diaspora media reports.
Pro-Palestinian activists involved in targeting Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece Motherhood at the National Gallery have been found guilty of criminal damage. The verdict follows a protest stunt where activists covered the famous artwork with an image related to the conflict in Gaza.
Palestinians in Gaza are deeply divided over plans for the Board of Peace to enter the territory, with some seeing the initiative as their first chance to escape dire living conditions while others fear it will entrench Israel's control and permanently fragment the Strip.
Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has urged Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and allied armed groups to stop launching attacks from Iraq.
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is under threat as a result of war in the Middle East
