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BEIRUT — Hezbollah supporters took to the streets of Beirut late Friday to protest an agreement between Israel and Lebanon, as a lawmaker from the Iran-backed group warned enforcing the deal risked sparking civil war.
The US and Iran exchanged strikes for the first time since signing an interim peace framework on June 17.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — US forces struck Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar positions Friday after Washington accused Tehran of attacking a cargo ship, jolting a fragile ceasefire as diplomats struggled to contain the Middle East war.
Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said that Trump “has shown he has no commitment to the principles of negotiation or a ceasefire”.
Strikes against military facilities were in response to drone attack a day earlier on a cargo vessel
The United States conducted military strikes against Iranian targets on Friday in retaliation for Iran's attack against a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on X/Twitter.
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Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a deal as part of a trilateral framework with the United States in Washington on Friday, following five rounds of talks hosted by US President Donald Trump's administration.
Washington: The US struck Iran on Saturday to respond to a drone attack a day earlier on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, a provocation that US President Donald Trump said violated the ceasefire.
The United States has renewed its attacks against Iran, in response to an incident a day earlier when a cargo vessel was allegedly struck by an Iranian drone.
The Conservatives have proposed offering military reservists a tax cut to help increase the number of part-time members of the UK forces to 50,000.
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The U.S. military struck Iran on Friday after President Donald Trump accused the Islamic Republic of violating a ceasefire by launching drone attacks at ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Most of the U.S. stock market rose after oil prices eased back to where they were before the war with Iran, but drops for AI stocks kept the market in check.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said a deal signed with Israel on Friday was a first step towards fully restoring his country's sovereignty after Israel's latest war on Lebanon.
Given US President Donald Trump’s sterling record in confronting Iran – no other US president has actually gone to war against the radical Islamist regime and repeatedly backed Israel’s wars of defense against Iran – one wants to give Trump the benefit of the doubt now, too, when he seeks to defang Iran diplomatically.
In recent weeks, US Vice President JD Vance has made statements and suggestions implying that the military aid provided by the United States to Israel gives Washington the right to demand that Israel follow American policy. He has even hinted at restrictions or delays in weapons deliveries if Israel does not act in …
United States President Donald Trump has condemned what he called Iran’s “foolish violation” of the ceasefire agreement after a drone struck a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz.
In a televised address, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel will remain in southern Lebanon “as long as Lebanon does not disarm”.
US president calls it ‘foolish violation’ of ceasefire agreement after drone damaged ship’s upper deck
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said Lebanese authorities would not be able to enforce a framework agreement signed with Israel in Washington on Friday unless, with US support, "they go to civil war," Al Mayadeen reported on Friday, after talks aimed at ending Israel's war on Lebanon.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hailed the new agreement signed between Israel and Lebanon, hosted in Washington on Friday, as a major blow to Iran. He has said Israeli forces will remain in southern Lebanon so long as Hezbollah does not disarm:
Dozens of people joined protests in northern and southern Gaza on Friday to demand that Hamas relinquishes power in the war-devastated coastal strip nearly nine months after the Palestinian militant group and Israel agreed to a ceasefire.
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RUSSIA — Ukraine launched a major nighttime attack on a dozen Russian regions, Russian-held Crimea and the surrounding seas, Moscow’s Defense Ministry said Friday, in what appeared to be one of Kyiv’s biggest drone assaults since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion more than four years ago.
A series of high-profile Democrats and party strategists this week sounded the alarm that socialists have hijacked the Democratic Party, with radical left-wing revolutionaries increasingly gaining power not just in local elections across the country, but most notably in far-left-controlled New York City.
US President Donald Trump has accused Iran of a "foolish violation" of its truce with Washington after a cargo ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz was attacked.
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Iran for a drone strike on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, calling it a “foolish violation” of the ceasefire.
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Rome's Sacrario delle Bandiere is a shrine in every sense, marked by silence, history, a tomb and even scheduled prayers.
Lebanon and Israel have agreed to a deal as part of a trilateral framework with the United States in Washington on Friday, following five rounds of talks hosted by US President Donald Trump's administration.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that Israel and Lebanon had reached a framework agreement aimed at achieving "lasting peace and security."
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Tehran reasserted its right on Friday to control shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and warned Gulf states against siding with the US, a day after an attack on a ship near Oman highlighted the fragility of a preliminary deal to end the Iran war.
Crossing the border into Belarus, with Russia in the rearview mirror behind him, Artyom Vovchenko breathed a sigh of relief. He knew, in all likelihood, he would finally be free.
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President Donald Trump on Friday accused Iran of violating a ceasefire agreement with the United States by launching attack drones at ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, including a cargo vessel that was struck off the coast of Oman on Thursday.
The Democratic Republic of Congo said it has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice over its role in the long-running conflict in the eastern Congo.