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Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said.
The death toll from Israel’s attack on a tent camp in Gaza City has risen to eight, a source at al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera English.
A suspected car ramming terror attack occurred at the Efrat Junction in the West Bank on Saturday night, the IDF announced.
The Israeli army says two of its soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon, where its forces continue operations despite the heavy toll Israel’s attacks have inflicted on Lebanese towns and villages.
The Pentagon’s intelligence arm has raised the assessed threat level on Israeli spying from “high” to “critical” in recent weeks, according to US media.
Lebanon is at a crossroads. This could seem like a cliché, because it has been at the same crossroads for decades. However, the country is moving to increase its diplomatic outreach so that it might be in a position to confront Hezbollah.
Israeli soldiers killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank after opening fire on his family’s car, despite the vehicle stopping when ordered.
Members of Iran's World Cup 2026 administrative staff have not been given visas to enter the United States, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
In the charged classrooms where young Zionists form their understanding of Israel, one question now demands courage: Should we teach the Nakba?
ANTALYA, Turkey — Iran’s World Cup soccer team set off from Turkey for their training base in Mexico on Saturday, with some members of their entourage reportedly still without US visas, before three group matches in the United States later this month.
It’s the latest diplomatic standoff between Washington and Tehran, just days before the World Cup kicks off in North America.
Two weeks before Christian leaders and foreign politicians filled a Knesset auditorium for the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast, Israeli lawmaker Ohad Tal thought the event might have to wait.
Capt. Shahar Gamla, 23, from Natur, and Sgt. Ohad Yaari, 21, from Rehovot, fell after two separate incidents in southern Lebanon, the IDF announced on Saturday.
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The Pentagon has raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat level to its highest category, amid growing alarm that Washington’s supposed closest Middle East ally is intensifying efforts to spy on senior US officials.
A worker in the Philippines prepares to fill an underground tank at a gas station. Manila declared an energy emergency after the start of the Iran conflict. © Reuters
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The Mossad's new director, Roman Gofman, announced on Saturday that the deputy director, A., was let go after 22 years of service to the organization.
As the United States, Israel, and Iran move uneasily between escalation and diplomacy, news outlets across the Middle East are describing the crisis in sharply different terms.
The Miss Israel Organization has severed ties with Miss Israel 2025, Melanie Shiraz, and accused Shiraz of spreading “inaccurate and misleading claims,” according to a statement released by the organization on social media on Friday.
Kyle Busch waits for the start of a NASCAR Xfinity Series auto race Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Lebanon, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Lebanon’s army commander is travelling to Pakistan, the Lebanese military says, as Islamabad continues its push to help end the US-Israel war on Iran.
Saturday marks 100 days into the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran.
Hamas has condemned Israel’s attack on a tent camp in Gaza City that killed at least five people this afternoon, calling it another massacre against displaced Palestinians.
Iraq striker questioned for seven hours at O’Hare
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks have killed 3,593 people and wounded 10,990 others across the country since March 2.
In September 2025, Eli and Chana Coten, both 36 years old, made aliyah to Ma’alot, some 20 km. east of Nahariya, with their two daughters aged 10 and six. We spoke briefly in February about an unsponsored article relating their experiences. When I tried to reconnect with the Cotens after the month-long war with Iran…
The well-known expression, “You get the government you deserve,” can also be applied to the type of atmosphere allowed by a society.
The Pentagon has raised its estimates of Israeli espionage activity against the United States to the highest level in history, according to a Saturday report by NBC News citing two US officials.
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At least 10 people, including high-ranking soldiers, have been killed in Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon, days after the countries agreed to a conditional truce during United States-mediated talks.
Jugadores de Irán posan con aficionados en Antalya, Turquía antes de partir rumbo a Tijuana, México el sábado 6 de junio del 2026. (AP Foto/Khalil Hamra)
The UK’s former health secretary, Wes Streeting, has been branded a liar and a hypocrite after he accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of ignoring detailed evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
Iran has again accused the US of breaking the ceasefire, with the Foreign Ministry on Saturday stating the US "not only lacks the will to reduce tensions and return to the path of stability, but with its adventurist actions, it seriously endangers the security of the region."
Multiple clashes were reported between a group of Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank town of Huwara, the IDF said in a statement on Saturday.
A Palestinian infant was killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday when Israeli forces opened fire on a car in which the boy and several relatives were traveling, according to members of his family and local health officials.
Wafa news agency is reporting that at least six people have been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent in Gaza City.
Pope Leo XIV has praised Spain for its stance on Gaza, Iran, and Ukraine, and for welcoming migrants, at the start of a weeklong state visit that marks the first papal trip to the country in fifteen years.
At least five people, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli attack on a wedding tent in Gaza City, Al Jazeera is reporting.
At least five people have been killed while attending a wedding in Gaza City after Israeli forces bombed the wedding tent.
A seven-month-old Palestinian boy was killed and his parents wounded by Israeli army gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Friday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry has said.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has said in an interview with CNN that Israel "will never be able to achieve their objective" of defeating Hezbollah.
A hiring sign is displayed at a restaurant in Niles, Ill., Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Iran's foreign ministry has issued a statement condemning US attacks on the country as "adventurist actions" that "seriously endanger the security of the region".
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s government on Saturday inaugurated the country’s second international airport, which is expected to open to the public within weeks.
I recently interviewed actor and talk show host Jerry O’Connell via Zoom. He spoke to me from Mort’s, a deli in the San Fernando Valley – the perfect setting for a conversation about the Jewish people.
Lebanese officials on Saturday launched the redevelopment of the Rene Mouawad Airport in Qlayaat, marking a step towards reopening the long-dormant northern facility as the country’s second civilian airport and reducing reliance on Beirut’s sole international gateway.
Kuwait's defence ministry said in a statement that its air defences downed all seven ballistic missiles fired by Iran towards the country on Saturday.
The U.S. said its forces intercepted several Iranian ballistic missiles aimed at Kuwait and Bahrein, which were fired after the American military shot down drones and targeted Iranian radar sites, in another escalation that threatens a shaky ceasefire in the region.