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The brief exchange of fire between Iran and Israel was a truer statement of the balance of power that now exists between these two countries than the many spurious claims by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about having “smashed”, “destroyed” or “obliterated” the armed forces o…
Palestinians walk along a street surrounded by buildings destroyed by Israeli military strikes during the Israel-Hamas war in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Cars loaded with mattresses, luggage, household items and pets clogged the coastal highway, with many families heading towards Saida and other areas further north. The evacuation reflects mounting concern over the security situation in one of Lebanon's largest southern cities, where recent strikes have already cause…
With markets thrown in turmoil following Trump's threat to restart war against Iran in retaliation for downing a US Apache helicopter, it wasn't clear how today's $58 billion 3 year auction would go. In the end, it wasn't great, or terrible: a little tail, but besides that all metrics were relatively solid.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a US military helicopter was shot down by Iran and that the United States "must" respond.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday signed two separate memorandums of understanding to expand cooperation on railways and connectivity between the two countries.
Labour backbenchers disappointed as new trade guidance over illegal settlements stops short of outright ban
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrives for a news conference about new settlement construction in the Israel-occupied West Bank near Maale Adumim, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)
A new survey by the Israeli Democracy Institute (IDI) found a sharp decline in the share of Jewish Israelis who believe US President Donald Trump views Israel's security as a central consideration, alongside broad skepticism about a potential US-Iran agreement and continued dissatisfaction with the government's hand…
Everything has changed for Israel, with Iran, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah, and Syria.
US President Donald Trump announced that America “must” respond to Iran’s downing of a US Apache Helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
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Iran's football federation announced on Tuesday its national team's schedule for the group stage of the World Cup, a tournament that is beginning under difficult circumstances for the Islamic republic.
President Donald Trump has accused Iran of shooting down a United States military helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, saying that he will respond to the attack.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. will "respond" as he accused Iran of shooting down an Apache helicopter that was patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz.
By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
Avichay Adraee, el portavoz militar israelí en idioma árabe, junto con armas que según el ejército fueron incautadas al grupo libanés Hezbollah, en una base militar israelí en el norte de Israel, el 23 de diciembre del 2024. (AP foto/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A US-Israeli plan to strip the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan of its historic custodianship of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex would lead to an “outbreak of violence” in the Middle East, Israeli-American attorney Daniel Seidemann told Middle East Eye.
Less than 6% of antisemitic rail-related crimes reported to the British Transport Police have been solved, BTP confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. This was first reported on by The Telegraph.
Britain said on Tuesday that a law to crack down on proxies acting for states deemed to be hostile, such as Iran, was expected to come into force next month, as it steps up powers to counter what it says is a growing threat posed by such groups.
During a visit to Northern Command, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said that the IDF's recent airstrike in Iran was a precursor to a "much more significant and heavy" operation in comments to the press on Tuesday.
US President Donald Trump’s relationship with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is “somewhat” “calming down” the increasingly strained relationship between Jerusalem and Ankara, Dr. Gallia Lindenstrauss, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies specializing in Turkish affairs, tol…
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Israel has struck the historic city of Tyre in Lebanon, targeting the Christian quarter for the first time after ordering a partial evacuation. The attack has heightened local concerns over the fate of the city’s revered Biblical heritage sites.
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In the southern Lebanese village of Habboush, the sound that cut through the stillness of the night was not an air strike. It was the sound of a child screaming for help.
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation is planning for the long haul by building additional pipeline capacity with its neighbours and inviting foreign investment after the Iran war choked off its access to the Strait of Hormuz and led to a collapse in production, its chief executive said.
Last month, a billboard went up across the street from Israel’s Supreme Court. On it was a picture of a sitting justice, Noam Sohlberg, an observant, kippah-wearing Jew – beneath a demand that he take his “Reform hands” off the Chief Rabbinate. His offense: he had ruled that women may sit for the state rabbinate’s c…
A British court is allowing German insurance giant Allianz to pursue a civil lawsuit against pro-Palestine activists that could end up bankrupting them.
Fatah was absent from some of the bilateral meetings during the two-day conference in Cairo amid reported frustration over Hamas's refusal to disarm and the growing influence of the Democratic Reform Bloc, according to Arabic media reports on Monday.
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Iran appears to have ended its ballistic-missile attacks against Israel. The regime’s airstrikes came two days after it chose to target Israel in response to its operations in Lebanon.
In the wake of the Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel, it’s possible that Hezbollah may be emboldened. The terror group had felt pressure from US-Israel talks and also from Israel’s continued military campaign in Lebanon.
The US and World Cup organizers have withdrawn Iran’s allocation of fan tickets just days before the tournament is set to begin, the country’s football federation has said. The last-minute decision has left thousands of Iranian supporters who had already made travel arrangements unable to attend their team’s matches.
It did not say who had interfered but blamed the United States, one of the tournament’s hosts, after months of war. FIFA said it was looking for a solution.
In the southern Lebanese village of Habboush, the sound that cut through the stillness of the night was not an air strike. It was the sound of a child screaming for help.
Legislation which would enable the home secretary to designate some state-linked organisations such as Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a threat to national security could come into force as early as next month.
Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg, Brian Cox and Steve Coogan are among around 100 figures jointly warning against four activists being sentenced to terrorism offences for actions they took against an Israeli arms manufacturer based in the UK.
The Trump administration’s preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup did not influence President Donald Trump’s decisions on Iran or his push for a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, Andrew Giuliani, the senior White House official overseeing the tournament, told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview.
Israel has carried out strikes across southern Lebanon, despite a warning from Iran not to continue attacks in the country.
Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg, Brian Cox and Steve Coogan are among around 100 figures jointly warning against four activists being sentenced to terrorism offences for actions they took against an Israeli arms manufacturer based in the UK.
Iran’s World Cup team arrived in Mexico wearing lapel pins highlighting the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school at the start of the war.
Uma investigação da ONU concluiu nesta terça-feira (09/06) que autoridades israelenses estão diretamente envolvidas em ataques de colonos que mataram, feriram e deslocaram palestinos na Cisjordânia ocupada. O inquérito também afirmou que as forças de segurança de Israel dão cobertura para esses atos.
National average gas price stands at about $4.16 per gallon as Americans grapple with price hikes sparked by the war
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said oil traffic has risen and will continue to expand in the Strait of Hormuz, a globally important oil passageway that's been crippled by the Iran War.
Urea prices have risen 75% since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran, eroding the already thin profit margins of Australian grain farmers
Jerusalem does not do things quietly. It carries the weight of millennia, of faith, of conflict, of longing, in every stone.
The latest flare-up in hostilities between Israel and Iran has exposed what some observers say is the most significant crack yet in the relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United States President Donald Trump, revealing increasingly divergent interests between the two world leaders.
