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The final round of the Saudi Pro League before the first international break of 2026/27 takes place over the weekend. The league table is already taking shape, with some familiar names at the top. There are a few unfamiliar ones, too.
There is an important calculation taking place in Washington about Israel, the Israeli elections, and President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Trump and the Board of Peace have apparently concluded that a public confrontation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Israelis vote could be counterproductive.
US President Donald Trump heckled the leaders of Iran at the first-ever Republican midterm convention on Wednesday, while promoting the idea of renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself.
The lightning Houthi advance down Yemen's Red Sea coast this week came with direct guidance from Iran's Revolutionary Guards seeking to open a new front in Iran's war with the US, according to Yemeni government, Iranian, and regional sources.
National Security Minister and Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir filed a NIS 100,000 defamation lawsuit against MK Gadi Eisenkot and his party on Thursday over remarks Eisenkot made on KAN News's "How to Do Things" podcast.
Iran has resumed producing ballistic missiles from existing components while working in underground facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing officials from the United States and the Middle East.
Israeli attacks have killed 4,383 people in Lebanon since 2 March, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency, citing the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
The four major parties in the opposition bloc seeking to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the October elections signed surplus vote-sharing agreements on Thursday, with the stated aim of increasing the number of seats won by the bloc and strengthening it.
Israeli forces have detained more than 100 Palestinians in the West Bank over the past week, including children, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) says, as pogroms continue across the occupied territory.
United States President Donald Trump has claimed that the seven-month-long war with Iran will end “immediately after” the US midterm elections in November, framing the ongoing conflict as an attempt by Tehran to influence the vote.
The lightning Houthi advance down Yemen's Red Sea coast this week came with direct guidance from Iran's Revolutionary Guards seeking to open a new front in US-Israeli war on Iran, according to Yemeni government, Iranian and regional sources.
Pakistan is pressing Iran and the US to return to negotiations under an agreement brokered by Islamabad, despite renewed strikes and a failure to implement the deal, Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN told The National.
My immediate curiosity was straightforward: How would Israeli Jews vote in a hypothetical 2026 US national election, and how would American Jews vote in Israel’s October 2026 Knesset election?
A video clip of a speech by IDF Central Commander Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth, responsible for the West Bank area, was publicly distributed on Thursday, in which he walks a fine line between trying to unify Israel's efforts against Palestinian terror and Jewish extremist violence through positive encouragement, with some ne…
The pro-Israel mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, lost his reelection campaign Wednesday to a progressive pro-Palestinian challenger in the latest demonstration of how Israeli politics are seeping into local US elections.
Following Brent's lead (which is following Shanghai's demand push), WTI topped $100 this morning for the first time since May, fueled by festering Middle East hostilities (with Saudi-Houthi attacks stealing the headlines) and the Saudis latest statement showing crude output at a 36-year low.
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Directors Yuval Abraham, left, and Rachel Szor pose for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘Naza’ during the 83rd edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
Demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street on Wednesday evening to protest the British government's recent policy measures regarding Israel.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told lawyers to begin defamation proceedings against an Israeli newspaper over reports that the leader of the United Arab Emirates warned him that Hamas was planning an operation just days before the 7 October 2023 attacks.
Over the weekend, the New York Times and Washington Post both reported on a “dossier of evidence” that detailed the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).
A late addition to this year’s Venice Film Festival competition line-up, Naza is a sickeningly tough film to watch.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been fighting a war unlike any in its history, across multiple fronts, often with methods the rest of the world is only beginning to absorb.
Sara Netanyahu demanded NIS 5 million from a defendant accused of setting a fire near the prime minister’s Jerusalem home, after he accused her of defamation for saying those responsible intended to kill her family.
The Israel Police’s 2025 statistical report has still not been published nine months after the end of the year, raising questions over the reason for the delay and its timing ahead of the elections, on Thursday.
The confrontation with Britain over its intention to advance sanctions and trade restrictions related to settlements is also being reflected at the municipal level in Jerusalem: Deputy Mayor Aryeh King is demanding that the name of King George Street, one of the capital’s main thoroughfares, be removed and replaced …
"NAZA," a documentary by Israeli journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor that debuted at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, claimed that mass civilian deaths were routinely built into Israeli military targeting decisions in Gaza.
Satellite imagery has picked up construction activity at Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday.
Venice film festival: Under the cover of night, anonymous personnel discuss AI, error rates and problematic intelligence units in a documentary produced by the Guardian
The price of oil has jumped to $105 a barrel amid signs the conflict in the Middle East will not be resolved quickly, fuelling fears that inflation could accelerate.
Over the weekend, the New York Times and Washington Post both reported on a “dossier of evidence” that detailed the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).
Houthi forces grabbed control of the Yemeni port city of Mocha on Thursday, in a major offensive that comes amid escalated fighting between the Iran-aligned movement and Yemen’s Saudi-backed government.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militants (Ansar Allah) have scored a major victory against Saudi-backed government forces, after the war was fiercely reinvigorated this month, having seized a historic Red Sea port on Thursday which effectively givens the Houthis even greater leverage over the Bab Al Mandab Strait.
King’s College London (KCL) has lifted the suspension of student activist Usama Ghanem, who was disciplined by the university over his pro-Palestine activism.
The Producer Price Index was up 5.4 per cent year-on-year last month, a significant acceleration from the 4.8 per cent rise in July
The Producer Price Index was up 5.4 per cent year-on-year last month, a significant acceleration from the 4.8 per cent rise in July
Every year before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish world turns inward for heshbon nefesh, an accounting of the soul. We examine our roots, our heritage, and the complicated cords that bind us as a people.
President Isaac Herzog said that his dream was to have the president of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun, join a meeting he held on Thursday with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides.
The State Attorney’s Office indicted a Tiberias resident, about 50, on Thursday over numerous sexual offenses he allegedly committed against two brothers when they were around nine years old, approximately two decades ago.
Social media platform X on Thursday removed an influence network comprising about 100 fake accounts with AI-generated profile pictures that operated in a coordinated manner against People of Israel chairman Brig.-Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter, according to an investigation by the FakeReporter initiative.
Two people have been arrested in London as part of an investigation into suspected National Security Act offenses linked to Iran, British police said on Thursday.
Less than 24 hours after the closing of the Knesset 2026 party lists, five polls published Wednesday night presented a highly fragmented political picture.
Houthis try to take control of more of Yemen’s Red Sea coast from Saudi-backed government, giving Iran and its allies control over a key shipping lane
The biggest May to September of all time was recorded in US cinemas, with the UK enjoying a 56% rise in audiences, outstripped by an 88% lift in the Middle East and Africa
Tis the season for open letters. And quoting proverbs.
President Trump on Wednesday told reporters to expect more US attacks on Iranian tankers, as the war over the Hormuz Strait continues to escalate in piecemeal tit-for-tat fashion.
Doctors say hospitals have resorted to rotating power cuts between buildings, putting patients in ‘severe danger’
Doctors say hospitals have resorted to rotating power cuts between buildings, putting patients in ‘severe danger’
Sara Netanyahu is facing a defamation law-suit over comments insinuating a leading opposition politician had advance notice of Hamas’ deadly October 7 attacks. (Reuters: Amir Cohen)
Two people have been arrested in London on suspicion of assisting Iran's intelligence service, the Metropolitan Police has said.