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Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has ordered an investigation into the smuggling of arms and weapons from Iraq to Hezbollah across the Syrian border, an official Iraqi source told Al Jazeera.
Since the prior day's handover of American detainee Dena Karari back to the US, which President Trump said he "appreciated" as a rare "gesture of goodwill" from Iran, Washington's bombs over the Islamic Republic appear to have ceased or slowed, for now at least.
Two men wade in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz with vessels anchored in the background, off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Sunday, July 12, 2026. (Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP)
Israeli singer-songwriter Ehud Banai’s music has found a beautiful setting deep inside the Bell Caves at Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park, where it forms the soundtrack to a new immersive video-art exhibition exploring memory, birth, dreams, and the mysteries of human consciousness.
Nearly 80 people from across Israel attended the Mike’s Cubes 2026 Rubik’s Cube competition on July 5, joined by hundreds of onlookers at the Shoham Medical Center in Pardes Hanna-Karkur.
The government approved a proposal to name Route 443 “The Levites Way” in memory of the late foreign affairs minister David Levy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation and Road Safety Minister Brig.-Gen. (Res.) Miri Regev announced in a joint statement on Tuesday.
Iran has asked Yemen’s Houthi terrorist organization to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, three sources told Reuters on Thursday, posing a potent new threat to global energy supplies.
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Syria has busted a new smuggling operation that was attempting to move weapons to Hezbollah. This bust comes at a key time, as Hezbollah is under some pressure by Israel, the US, and Lebanon as the US hopes for progress on trilateral talks.
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Hezbollah’s continued armed presence is harming Lebanon’s security, 51% of Lebanese participants answered in a YouGov survey published last month by the Council for a Secure America.
A bloc of Israeli parties seeking to remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would secure the narrowest possible parliamentary majority in October’s election, a new poll has found.
El presidente sirio Ahmed al-Sharaa camina hacia el número 10 de Downing Street para reunirse con el primer ministro británico Keir Starmer, en Londres, el 31 de marzo de 2026. (Foto AP/Alastair Grant, archivo)
US military footage shows strike on ship in the Gulf
Fracking billionaire Harold Hamm is co-chair of a non-profit that has aggressively pushed for US energy dominance
President of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa walks towards 10 Downing Street to meet Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London, on March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
Iran asked the Houthis in Yemen to close the Red Sea gateway Bab al-Mandeb Strait if the US attacks power infrastructure, Reuters reported.
Iran launched new attacks on its Gulf neighbours on Thursday despite issuing a call for diplomacy after the US carried out another night of strikes across the country.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Colombia’s incoming foreign minister, Omar Bula Escobar, agreed on Wednesday in Washington to fully restore diplomatic and economic relations between Israel and Colombia, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
Iran’s space program is advancing in its infrastructure development, satellite development, and satellite data and imagery services, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported on Thursday, citing the head of the Iranian Space Agency, Hassan Salarieh.
Iran’s confiscation of St. Peter’s Evangelical Church in Tehran, also known as Qavam Church, and the eviction of the 27 members of the Christian community who lived within its compound must be reversed, UN experts demanded on Wednesday.
Six haredi women and 10 academics petitioned the High Court of Justice on Thursday to strike down, or sharply restrict, a law expanding gender-segregated studies in Israeli higher education, arguing that the legislation dismantles the safeguards on which the court previously found the practice constitutional.
Iraq and Jordan have discussed resurrecting dormant plans for an oil pipeline linking Basra and the kingdom's only port of Aqaba, as the US encourages countries in the region to find alternative routes to the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei condemned the US attack last night near a children's cancer treatment centre in Ahvaz in southwestern Iran, describing it as "barbaric".
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir has "no business getting involved in politics," Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri said in an interview with Kikar HaShabbat on Thursday.
President will meet new Republican senator who has taken over the seat following the death of her brother Lindsey Graham
A majority of Iranian political figures have said a full-scale military conflict between Iran and the US is unlikely, but warned that limited confrontations will possibly continue.
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Syrian and Lebanese security forces are liaising daily on counter-terrorism and other security matters, Lebanon's Interior Minister, Retd Brig Gen Ahmad Al Hajjar, has told The National.
An Israeli air strike on a vehicle in Khan Younis in Gaza killed at least one and wounded others, a source in Nasser Hospital told al-Jazeera.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it struck a US base in Jordan as American strikes continued to hit the country.
A drone crashed into Iraq Basra's terminal, without causing any damages or fire, Iraqi sources told Reuters.
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India has barred its country's seafarers from working aboard vessels travelling through the Strait of Hormuz amid growing safety concerns owing to the escalating US-Iran conflict.
An IDF soldier from Bat Yam was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of supplying IDF grenades, ammunition, and other weapons to people in possible connection with a wave of recent grenade attacks in central Israel.
IDF forces operating in the security buffer in southern Lebanon located a dead body tied to a stretcher on Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a trip to the US which was scheduled for next week.
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Iran warned Thursday that it would "crush" key targets in the Middle East if U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to target the country's infrastructure in the coming days are carried out.
Syrian authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle a shipment of advanced weapons and missiles across the Syria-Iraq border, a source at the Interior Ministry told state news agency Sana on Thursday.
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Syrian security forces thwarted an attempt to smuggle in a shipment of advanced weapons and missiles through the Syrian-Iraqi borders, the Syrian state news agency Sana reported.
The US military has continued strikes against Iran, hitting targets further to the country’s north as well as close to capital Tehran for the first time in the latest round of violence.
The United States military says it has launched another wave of strikes on Iran, while Tehran says it retaliated with missile and drone attacks against US military assets in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
Fighting between the US and Iran is once again disrupting air travel in the Gulf, as airlines adjust their operations amid renewed military action and a ceasefire that now appears to be over.
Fighting between the US and Iran is once again disrupting air travel in the Gulf, as airlines adjust their operations amid renewed military action and a ceasefire that now appears to be over.
A US citizen who had been detained by Iran since December 2024 has been released, US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday.
The crisis over the American refueling aircraft parked at Ben-Gurion Airport, thought to be resolved, is now escalating from the military to the diplomatic arena.
Israeli defense tech companies Airwayz and Tenna Systems have launched a strategic partnership that embeds Tenna’s real-time spectrum‑intelligence capabilities into OVERWATCH, Airwayz’s command-and-control and airspace-governance platform. The integration, already deployed through Israel’s National Drone Initiative …