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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Hezbollah on Sunday of trying to plunge Lebanon “back into chaos” after the Iran-backed group renewed its opposition to direct talks between Beirut and Israel, and rejected calls to disarm.
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Washington/islamabad: US President Donald Trump said he had told his representatives not to rush into any deal with Iran, as his administration played down hopes of an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war that had been raised a day earlier.
Mazen al-Jerjawi would normally spend this time of year preparing for Eid al-Adha, selling the hundreds of sheep and goats he raised on his land as families across Gaza searched for animals to sacrifice during the holiday.
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Some casualties after attacks on multiple locations in south and east of country on Sunday, state media reports
Senate Republicans cast doubt on the viability of a potential peace deal between the United States and Iran over the weekend as President Trump doubled down in support of his administration’s negotiations to end the nearly three-month-old war.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli attacks on the south have killed two people, including a paramedic, and wounded at least 10 others.
Leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party, MK Avigdor Liberman, warned against any deal with Iran, calling it a “catastrophe” as developments on the framework emerged, while sharply criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for allowing US President Donald Trump to control issues concerning Iran and Lebanon without pu…
Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem denounced the concept of the terror group disarming during his speech on "Resistance and Liberation Day," which commemorates the IDF's withdrawal from occupying southern Lebanon on May 25, 2000.
By the middle of last week, senior Israeli officials and their counterparts in the Gulf states had rarely appeared more divided over one question: What will US President Donald Trump decide regarding the war with Iran?
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The Australian sharemarket is set for an uncertain start to the session as US President Donald Trump said he had told his representatives not to rush into any deal with Iran, appearing to dampen hopes of an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war that had been raised by both sides a day earlier.
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Lebanon’s official National News Agency says an Israeli air strike has killed two young men and wounded another in the country’s south.
Israeli strikes have killed at least six people in southern Lebanon as the Israeli army issues fresh evacuation orders.
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“I don’t think I would change a thing,” said Beitar Jerusalem captain Yarden Shua after the curtain came down on the 2025/26 Israeli soccer season, one that ultimately ended with Hapoel Beersheba atop the table, three points clear of Beitar after a gripping title race that stretched from the opening weeks until the …
A near-national panic seems to have broken out in Israel: How could so many New York Jews vote for a Muslim candidate for mayor? After all, everyone knows that the primary responsibility of New York’s mayor is to defend the State of Israel – and only afterward worry about garbage collection, the subway, crime, or th…
On June 12, 2014, three teenage boys, Eyal Yifrah, 19, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, and Gil-Ad Shaer, 16, who were students in a high school yeshiva in the West Bank, hitchhiked a ride home.
Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency says Washington is blocking key elements of a potential agreement, including provisions tied to the release of Tehran’s frozen assets.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, March 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Gabriela Passos, File)
Trump has said any agreement with Iran remains incomplete, pushing back against criticism as negotiations continue.
An intelligence operation believed to be run by the Iranian regime is attempting to use Telegram to recruit people in Britain to organize anti-Israel protests and publish anti-Zionist and antisemitic posters, The Times reported on Friday.
US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has threatened Saudi Arabia and other Arab and Muslim countries to join the Abraham Accords as a price to pay to pay for ending the Israeli-US war on Iran.
US President Donald Trump has instructed his negotiators "not to rush into a deal" with Iran, after reports suggested an agreement between the two sides was close.
Israeli attacks have killed three people and wounded another in southern Lebanon, according to the official National News Agency.
The controversial bill seeking to establish a new civilian authority to oversee antiquities and heritage sites within the West Bank and Gaza would constitute a “significant deviation” from current Israeli policy and could violate international law, serving as a way for the government to initiate “creeping annexation…
Mohsen Rezaei, a military advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, said on Sunday that managing the Strait of Hormuz was Tehran's "legal right" in order to ensure national security.
The Israeli interception of the Gaza flotilla last week highlighted the connections between an organization sanctioned in the United States as a terrorist group front and a New Jersey organization that appeared last year.
It was only natural that as soon as news broke Saturday night of the skeleton of a deal with Iran, the immediate question was whether it was good or bad, whether it cemented an American or Iranian victory, and what it meant for Israel.
Israeli officials warned that the emerging agreement between Iran and the United States is “a bad deal,” saying it fails to address key threats posed by Tehran beyond its nuclear program.
The US has apparently had to agree to unfreeze billions of Iranian assets for a regime more hardline than before the war
No agreement between the United States and Iran is expected to be signed today, as negotiations continue over unresolved details, according to multiple media reports.
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has called on the Lebanese government to abandon plans for direct talks with Israel, as pressure grows ahead of a new round of negotiations.
A few months ago David Navazio, founder and CEO of medical supply company Gentell, had never heard of the Strait of Hormuz. But now, the narrow waterway thousands of miles away from the company's headquarters in Yardley, Pennsylvania, is impacting the company's operations in more ways than one.
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Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli air strikes have killed 3,151 people and wounded 9,571 since 2 March, according to a statement carried by the National News Agency.
Israel has recently resumed issuing evacuation orders to Gaza residents – a practice that had largely subsided after an October ceasefire
Israel has recently resumed issuing evacuation orders to Gaza residents – a practice that had largely subsided after an October ceasefire
Trump insists US won’t rush talks with Tehran after rebukes from Republicans, including Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company to buy Chinese satellite equipment linked to its drone program, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Days after burying yet another graduate killed in Lebanon, Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander sat down with the Jerusalem Post's senior field reporter, Sam Halpern, to discuss leading one of Israel's largest Modern Orthodox educational networks during its most painful chapter in a generation.
A leading analyst says Tehran will view any generous US offer with suspicion, fearing it could mask preparations for further military action.
US Republicans are divided over reports of a potential deal with Iran, exposing fractures within Donald Trump’s own political base.