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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders depart after meeting with reporters as he tries to advance a spending package for the Iran war, farm aid and President Donald Trump’s push for strict new voter ID requirements, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Defense secretary and chair of the joint chiefs face Senate appropriations committee to continue Iran war effort
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Like a slow-motion car crash, the US-Israeli attacks on Iran are morphing into a third Gulf war.
President Isaac Herzog called on the Israeli public to hold Israel's upcoming elections in a responsible and respectful manner in a speech on Tuesday.
Israeli officials believe US President Donald Trump is preparing to significantly escalate the American military campaign against Iran, according to two Israeli officials.
Fireworks burst as Houthi supporters rally against the Saudi-led coalition in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, July 20, 2026. Placards in Arabic read: “God is great, Death to America, Death to Israel, A curse on the Jews and Victory to Islam” and “boycott American and Israeli goods”. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
Iraq's new government hopes it could serve as a mediator between the US and Iran, as it seeks to strike balanced relations between the two countries, an advisor to the Prime Minister has said.
The Netherlands is set to ban imports of goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Evangelical Christian Zionist leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore called on US President Donald Trump on Monday to publicly distance himself from recent statements by Vice President JD Vance concerning Israel, Iran, and alleged Israeli influence in American politics.
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The Dutch government announced on Tuesday that it will ban products from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories starting on 22 September.
As global crises push nations to rearm with advanced military technologies, Dun & Bradstreet’s Duns 100 index has published Israel’s first comprehensive ranking of defense-industry companies, mapping 60 firms across the country’s expanding defense-tech ecosystem.
Otzma Yehudit chairman and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir made Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara's immediate dismissal and replacement a threshold condition for his party to join the next government, in a letter he sent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
Israel First Party leader MK Sharren Haskel launched a campaign calling on right-wing figures to join her new party as part of an effort to form a “broad Zionist government,” telling The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday she would consider joining a government after the elections with parties from “both sides of the aisle.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gambled that by passing a slew of laws favorable to the haredim (ultra-Orthodox) at the end of the Knesset’s current term, he would solidify his alliance with them and go into October’s elections confident in the inviolability of his right-wing haredi bloc.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to attack a site linked to Iran's nuclear program known as Pickaxe Mountain, a fortified facility buried deep underground near one of Tehran's main nuclear sites.
Democrats Party leader Yair Golan on Tuesday laid out his party’s plans ahead of the upcoming elections, pledging to advance legislation barring politicians with criminal records from serving as prime minister or being a part of the next government, arguing that Israel needs “a fundamental change.”
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A group of drones flying alongside an Apache attack helicopter could provide another major layer of defence to Gulf states attacked by Iran.
WASHINGTON, July 21 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States would 'take care of' the Iran-backed Houthi militia if it presses ahead with a blockade in the Red Sea, as concerns grew that if the waterway is blocked, it could further strain global energy supplies.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens during a meeting with Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi at the Pentagon Tuesday, July 14, 2026, in Washington. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)
Tehran, Iran – Each trip to the supermarket brings an unpleasant surprise for Leyla, a pensioner who lives in western Tehran.
Gaza’s civil defence agency said that multiple Israeli strikes on several areas across Gaza have killed 12 Palestinians, including four children, on Tuesday.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner spokesperson, Thameen al-Kheetan, condemned on Tuesday the increased Israeli strikes on Gaza.
Mohsen Mahdawi speaks during an interview at the ACLU of Vermont on May 8, 2025, in Montpelier, Vt. (AP Photo/Alex Driehaus, File)
The Iranian army said on Tuesday that it had shot down a one-way attack drone flying over the northwest of the country, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.
President Donald Trump has promised that the United States will “help” Lebanon as he met with his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun amid continued occupation of the south of the country by Israeli forces.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday in a call to his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot that the conduct of two French diplomats in Tehran was “unconventional”, “unprofessional” and “unacceptable”.
Two unusual media appearances involving Saudi Arabia and Israel have revived questions about whether the countries are cautiously reopening channels as Iranian attacks place growing pressure on Gulf security.
On March 26, the IDF said that naval intelligence had assisted with assassinating Iranian Naval Chief Alireza Tangsiri in the port city of Bandar Abbas, with eliminating key Iranian naval cruise missile production sites, and Iranian sites related to submarines and other underwater threats.
Não se percebe nada de especial quando se observa a rua Shlomo HaMelech, em Bnei Brak, Israel. Ao menos não virtualmente, pelo Google Street View, que mostra uma via estreita de asfalto, ladeada por residências. Nas calçadas, com meios-fios vermelhos e brancos, há poucos pedestres – essencialmente, homens vestindo c…
Trump told reporters on Tuesday that the US will be hitting the area where Iran’s nuclear centrifuges are rumoured to be “very heavily” in the near future, without clarifying when.
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A United States appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that ordered the release of Columbia University activist Mohsen Mahdawi from immigration detention, marking the latest legal victory for the administration of US President Donald Trump in its effort to deport pro-Palestinian student protesters.
Having initially been tipped for the role of chancellor, former Labour leader Ed Miliband has been appointed foreign secretary by Andy Burnham, the UK's new prime minister.
FOR a brief period of time, there was hope that a tentative easing of tensions in the Persian Gulf would lead in the direction of the end of the global energy crisis caused by the Israeli-US war against Iran. In the past week, however, that hope has unraveled in the face of a volatile, multi-front disruption to the …
TEHRAN - Iran targeted US radar and air defense installations in the Gulf on Tuesday, warning Washington of “more decisive and powerful” attacks to come as the conflict threatened to widen with a blockade of Saudi ports by Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Speaking to reporters in the White House on Tuesday, Trump claimed that the Iranians “want to meet desperately to try and end [the war] because they’re getting decimated”, adding that “until they’re ready to meet in a meaningful way, we have no interest”.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced Brigadier-General (ret.) Guy Barlev as its new CEO on Tuesday, with the decision now pending government approval.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi was in the United States last week, where he met with US President Donald Trump, members of Congress, businesspeople, along with other officials, seeking a new partnership with the US while portraying himself as a new young leader who could bring Iraq into the future and not allow t…
US President Donald Trump said on Monday during a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the White House that Israel is currently in the process of “redeploying” to other areas in southern Lebanon as day two of their planned withdrawal from so-called “pilot zones” occupied by Israel.
Having initially been tipped for the role of chancellor, former Labour leader Ed Miliband has been appointed foreign secretary by Andy Burnham, the UK's new prime minister.
Brent crude futures are trading in the low $90s as the Gulf area escalation enters a tenth consecutive day. Iran attacked a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, while two tankers carrying Saudi crude reversed course in the southern Red Sea after warnings from Iran-backed Houthi forces placed another critical maritime cho…
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is in Washington for a high-stakes meeting with US President Donald Trump, as the first “pilot zone” operations under a US-brokered framework agreement with Israel began in southern Lebanon.
Little will change in Hamas now that Khalil al-Hayya has been named head of its political bureau, though the terror group will now enjoy not having the financial burden of administering the Gaza Strip, Dr. Michael Milshtein, the head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and A…