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The current round of fighting between the United States and Iran is not expected to spill over to Israel, The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that his country was prepared to resume military operations against Iran for “a third time if necessary”.
Exclusive: PM-in-waiting says party must ‘do better’ in approach to Middle East and he will put more pressure on Israel
WELLINGTON — New Zealand is considering joining a defense alliance signed by Australia and Fiji, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Thursday.
Shipping traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen sharply since Wednesday, especially via the UN-back Omani passageway, after the United States and Iran traded renewed strikes and vessels were attacked earlier in the week.
A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent
The world's chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday restored Syria's voting rights after a four-year suspension, pointing to a “significant change in circumstances” since the fall of Bashar Al Assad.
The global chemical weapons’ watchdog has announced it has handed voting rights back to Syria because “concrete steps” have been taken to address outstanding issues since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.
More than three weeks after the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to end their war and restore shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the future of passage through the vital waterway is once again under a cloud.
Ukraine's military has shared video of a naval drone strike on a Russian tanker
The deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Nazhat Khan, said on Thursday that her office had achieved a "breakthrough" in its investigations into war crimes allegedly committed by parties to the current conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
The European Union is to offer solidarity with Gulf states caught in up the US-Iran war at a high-level meeting in Brussels on Monday, an European Commission representative has said.
Shortly after a leaked Meta memo revealed the company was planning on putting an AI chip into production in September as it looks to double computing capacity to 14Gigawatts, the company also unveiled a version of its most advanced artificial intelligence model, Muse Spark 1.1, that includes a new paid tier for deve…
Residents in Bandar Abbas and Sirik regions describe communities in fear and ‘feeling abandoned’ after US strikes
A court in Poland has found a Russian activist and his wife guilty of spying on behalf of Russia’s FSB security service and participating in a parcel bomb plot, Polish media reported Thursday.
Exclusive: Documents show $117,455.50 was spent in a single legal fight over laws rushed through after Bondi attack
Less than a month after Reuters reported that QatarEnergy was ready to resume LNG production at its Ras Laffan LNG plant "very quickly" and expected to reach within a month full output of facilities unaffected by Iranian strikes, this morning Bloomberg reports that Qatar is pausing efforts to rapidly revive produc…
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen steeply after a series of tit-for-tat strikes by the US and Iran following an attack on three tankers earlier this week.
ULAANBAATAR, July 9 (Yonhap) – U.S. President Donald Trump does not appear to rule out the possibility of having U.S. military ships he asked South Korea to build constructed in the Northeast Asian country, a presidential official said Thursday.
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Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s From Across the Pond column.
President Trump has zigged and zagged when it comes to Ukraine, blowing hot and very, very cold in his support for the country in the war against Russia.
Tehran is using military coercion to force Gulf states to accept the Islamic Republic’s administration over the vital Strait of Hormuz, according to a new assessment by the Institute for the Study of War.
Kenya's economic growth is expected to slow this year, with the World Bank cutting its forecast to 4.3 percent, citing the global fallout from the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Iran fired 10 ballistic missiles at Jordan's Azraq military base on Thursday, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement carried by state media.
Russia’s FSB security service said Thursday that it foiled two plots to assassinate senior military officers, accusing Ukrainian intelligence of recruiting a young Moscow woman and a Russian ex-convict living in Ukraine to carry out the attacks.
This week I found myself in Petah Tikva. Looking for a place to have lunch, I searched through a list of sushi restaurants in the area. Some of the country’s best sushi can be found in Tel Aviv and Herzliya. I settled on a place in nearby Ramat HaHayel. As I drove there, I was struck by the amount of new constructio…
Sirens sounded across the Middle East as Iran launched retaliatory strikes on US assets in the Gulf Region on Thursday.
Just as the US nighttime strikes were significantly bigger than prior rounds in June, so has Iran's 'retaliation' been bigger - chiefly on Gulf states and American bases there.
The Czech Republic remains skeptical about NATO’s strategy of continued military support for Ukraine, to which it does not contribute financially, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said as he left the bloc leaders’ summit in Ankara, Türkiye on Wednesday.
Enormous crowds gathered in Mashhad in preparation for the burial of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, overshadowed by a renewed exchange of strikes between the US and Iran.
As AI models become interchangeable commodities, the contest is down to service prices – which are driven by electricity output and cost
As AI models become interchangeable commodities, the contest is down to service prices – which are driven by electricity output and cost
Futures are higher (although off session highs), and oil erased overnight gains as the market moved past the latest Middle-East flare up which saw the US military strike 90 Iranian targets for a second day and Tehran retaliated against American allies in the Persian Gulf. And like during previous escalations, this t…
Ukraine has attacked several Russian oil facilities and set two tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov, the latest in a series of strikes on Russian energy sites that have caused a fuel crisis.
President of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa walks towards 10 Downing Street to meet Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London, on March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar in crossfire that again threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war.
A US military delegation will arrive in Beirut in the coming days to help establish two “pilot zones” in south Lebanon as part of a Washington-brokered plan between Israel and Lebanon, Michel Issa, US ambassador to Lebanon, said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday modestly downgraded its outlook for the world economy this year, citing the energy shock caused by the Iran war. But the fallout from the conflict is being partially offset by booming investment in artificial intelligence and other technologies.
Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan has urged “all parties” in the escalating United States-Iran conflict to exercise restraint after a fragile ceasefire that had held for nearly three weeks collapsed into a new wave of strikes and counterstrikes.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting US-allied Mideast countries in an exchange of fire that threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Middle East.
Abu Dhabi pupil Dana Al Zarouni has been crowned the nation’s best young reader after winning the 10th UAE Arab Reading Challenge.
Sirens sounded in Kuwait and alerts were activated in Qatar and Bahrain due to retaliatory Iranian fire over the Gulf countries after the United States launched new airstrikes hitting Iran early Thursday.
Relatives of missing victims weep, as they gather at the site of destroyed buildings that were hit in an Israeli airstrike in Qannarit village, southern Lebanon, Saturday, June 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Turkey thwarted an Israeli and US-backed incursion of Kurdish forces into Iran during the war on Iran earlier this year, Israel's i24News reported on Wednesday.
A second – and bigger – barrage of air attacks by the United States has hit Iran in two days, as fragile peace talks between the two countries appear at risk of collapsing.
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Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of 'Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union.' He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN…