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Iran stands with Hamas against Israel, and is raising the issue of Israeli aggression in Gaza with the US during talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told senior Hamas official Basem Naim on Tuesday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated Tasnim News Agency reported.
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O Irã enfrenta um caminho longo e turbulento para se recuperar da guerra de quase quatro meses com os Estados Unidos e Israel. Antes de o conflito eclodir, o país já lidava com anos de sanções e isolamento internacional devido ao seu programa nuclear, que haviam reduzido pela metade as exportações de petróleo, sua p…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace is set to convene at a Cyprus resort on June 30 to “adjust its strategy,” an official familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
Leaked letter to PM and military demands action to stop violence against Palestinians in occupied West Bank
When neoconservative writer Robert Kagan, who spent decades as a cheerleader for America's forever wars, warned that the confrontation with Iran could become one of the greatest strategic defeats in modern American history, many dismissed his assessment as alarmist and exaggerated.
Palestinian public sector workers can expect to receive 50% of their wages on Thursday, the Palestinian Authority’s finance ministry announced on Tuesday night, months after critical service workers went on strike after receiving only a fraction of their pay.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun confirmed on Wednesday that his country is awaiting Israel's approval of occupied positions to be taken over by Lebanese troops as part of a “pilot” Israeli military withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea's leading defense company, said Wednesday it has signed a deal with a United Arab Emirates (UAE) defense firm in order to tap deeper into the Middle East by producing K9 self-propelled howitzers in the region.
Mike Burgess’s annual threat assessment warns social media is ‘amplifying’ an erosion of trust in institutions, promoting discord and heightening polarisation
“Israel has no choice but to fully withdraw from all Lebanese territory, without retaining an inch," Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said on Tuesday, in his second speech delivered in recent days.
Amid growing concerns over a potential kidnapping attempt in southern Lebanon, Israeli security officials said Tuesday that senior officials reviewed the situation involving dozens of Hezbollah terrorists trapped in the village of Tebnit.
The IDF on Wednesday struck four rocket-firing positions that Hamas has newly constructed in Gaza since the October 2025 ceasefire.
US President Donald Trump criticised Congress passing a symbolic resolution calling for an end to the war with Iran, calling it "poorly timed and meaningless."
U.S. Treasury yields fell on Wednesday as Brent crude prices fell to levels not seen since before the Iran war began, and investors await key inflation data due to be released Thursday.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he had helped to smuggle tens of thousands of Starlink receptors into Iran.
An Israeli minister from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party said that Turkey and Syria are "far more concerning than Iran," claiming that there is a "Muslim Brotherhood axis".
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he had helped to smuggle tens of thousands of Starlink receptors into Iran.
Four pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in Libya for about a month have been released, the Global Sumud Flotilla group has said.
On the eve of World Environment Day, the Israeli army targeted The Orange House, the south Lebanon home of marine ecologist and environmentalist Mona Khalil, leaving her critically wounded. Two weeks later, on 19 June, Khalil succumbed to her wounds in Beirut.
The UN nuclear watchdog will carry out inspections in Iran soon, following an interim peace accord between the United States and Iran, but specifics have yet to be finalised, the agency's chief, Rafael Grossi, said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu testified for the last time in his criminal trial on Wednesday. Traveling between the courthouse, security briefings and the Knesset to stabilize a frayed coalition, the prime minister attended 98 testimonies.
Inflation, which contracted 0.08% on the year in March, jumped to 2.89% in April as the effects of the Iran war began to push energy prices higher. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca)
Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf has described the agreement reached with the United States to end the regional war as an “American declaration of defeat”.
Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said on Wednesday that regional countries alone should determine the Middle East’s political and security order, rejecting external involvement and calling for expanded intra-regional cooperation.
Iraq’s Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court has announced the arrest of a former governor after confessions from a detained senior oil official in a graft case, according to a statement issued on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to call for a Security Cabinet meeting on Wednesday regarding Syria in connection with Lebanon, following US President Donald Trump's recent comments about handing over responsibility for Hezbollah to the Syrian regime of Ahmad al-Sharaa, N12 News reported.
Latest updatesIran war latest: Israel and Lebanon discuss plan to hand over parts of south to Lebanese army
Concern is rising in Israel after the US and Iran reported progress in talks in Switzerland, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying his country must “free” itself from dependence on the US.
Dressed in a pink top and acid-washed jeans, the young woman in the video hardly looked the part of a pious loyalist to Iran’s clerical rulers, standing alongside a crowd of women draped in black from head to toe. That was exactly the point.
Israeli troops have killed two people in southern Lebanon, in the first reported fatalities since Sunday. The fragile Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire is a key condition set by Iran for peace talks with the US, a process that has drawn sharp criticism from West Jerusalem.
Airlines should continue to avoid the airspace over Iran, Iraq and Lebanon and remain cautious across the region despite the framework deal between Washington and Tehran, because violations remained possible, the EU aviation safety agency EASA said.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate for the first time approved a war powers resolution Tuesday seeking to block US military action against Iran, as lawmakers warily watch President Donald Trump’s efforts to resolve a conflict that the administration launched on its own and now needs Congress to fund.
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Airlines should continue to avoid the airspace over Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon and remain cautious across the region despite the framework deal between Washington and Tehran, because violations remained possible, the EU aviation safety agency EASA said.
Restrictions around the Iran national team's World Cup travel are being slightly loosened, with the team now permitted to travel to at US game sites two days before the day of the match, the US Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio begins a Middle East tour in earnest on Wednesday, seeking to reassure Gulf allies who view concessions in President Donald Trump’s Iran deal that include a proposed $300 billion fund as too generous to a regional foe.
The Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) argued that two of its endorsed candidates in Tuesday's primaries lost their elections over their support for Israel.
As the world marks the International Day of Women in Diplomacy today, it is worth reflecting not only on the role women play in diplomacy, but on what their contributions reveal about the strength of the institutions they serve.
The initial agreement that ended nearly four months of war between the US and Iran laid out a framework for negotiations on a final agreement within 60 days.
Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy are back after a short break and in this episode they examine the on-again, off-again talks to end the Iran war and why Donald Trump says it’s now all up to his deputy to deliver an outcome.
Iran and the United States have offered conflicting accounts of key issues as negotiators work towards a final agreement within a 60-day window. Differences remain over nuclear oversight and the implementation of any deal, underscoring the challenges facing both sides.
Israel Police is preparing for haredi (ultra-Orthodox) demonstrations, which are expected to take place on Wednesday at a number of locations across the country, after anti-draft activists, including the Jerusalem Faction (Peleg Yerushalmi), called for nationwide disruptions.
SEOUL, June 24 (Yonhap) -- The top diplomats of South Korea and India on Wednesday discussed ways to expand bilateral cooperation across a range of sectors and exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East and global supply chains, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
In today’s episode of Trending Middle East, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio begins a Gulf tour with meetings in the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain as Washington seeks regional backing for negotiations on a permanent agreement with Iran. Rubio says Gulf partners will help shape the next phase of talks and insists Iran wil…
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US President Donald Trump criticized the US Senate in a Truth Social post on Tuesday night, saying that the newly passed war powers resolution was "meaningless" and "poorly timed."
Aber Kawas, a Palestinian-American who ran on a platform of democratic socialism and defunding "Israel's genocide in Gaza," won the Democratic primary for the New York State Senate race in Queens on Tuesday.