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Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
One Palestinian child has been killed every day on average for more than eight months in Gaza since a so-called “ceasefire” with Israel was announced, the United Nations children’s agency says.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki has stripped Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of Poland’s highest state honor, the Order of the White Eagle, after Kiev named a military unit after a nationalist group implicated in the wartime massacres of Poles and Jews.
Scottish fans drink and sing at a pub in central Boston, Mass,, ahead of the World Cup Group C soccer match between Haiti and Scotland in Foxborough, Saturday, June 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Trump says he thanked China for staying out of the conflict with Iran after personally urging Beijing not to intervene.
President Donald Trump speaks after touring the newly designated Air Force One presidential aircraft at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Polish President Karol Nawrocki, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend an official welcome ceremony before their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
The row began after the Ukrainian leader named a military unit after a WWII insurgent army that took part in massacres against Poles
The row began after the Ukrainian leader named a military unit after a WWII insurgent army that took part in massacres against Poles
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Israel and Hezbollah have agreed a ceasefire, a US official says, following intense Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon that the government said killed 47 people.
Kim Gamel, a former veteran Associated Press correspondent who covered conflicts and uprisings around the Middle East, including the height of the Iraq war and the Arab Spring, has died, according to her brother-in-law. She was 57.
Jerusalem: Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group agreed on Friday to halt the heavy fighting in southern Lebanon that had threatened to unravel an interim peace agreement between the United States and Iran, officials said. Neither Israel nor Hezbollah immediately confirmed the truce.
Seventeen medics have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the death toll surpasses 200 in an outbreak tearing through a health system already weakened by years of conflict, displacement and chronic underfunding.
The United States bears the responsibility to end the war “on all fronts, including Lebanon,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday during a call with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.
TE Lawrence is probably the UK’s best-known Middle East expert, a man whose adventures in the region during the First World War were immortalised in the 1962 Oscar-winning epic Lawrence of Arabia.
This week the US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding to end their confrontation. The blockade of Iranian ports is expected to be lifted, the Strait of Hormuz is expected to reopen within days and Qatar has already begun moving its tankers back towards Ras Laffan. The immediate reaction across energy market…
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US-Iran meeting in Switzerland on implementation of peace deal cancelled over clashes in southern Lebanon
US President Donald Trump has denied that the war on Iran has highlighted the limits of his ability to project power, telling Axios on Thursday that “there are no limits.”
View image in fullscreenKyiv, UkraineFirefighters try to put out a fire at a city marketplace following a Russian missile and drone attack in Kyiv. Prior to the attack, amid evidence of mounting battlefield setbacks for Russia, president Vladimir Putin had warned that Moscow would target Ukraine with ‘systemic’ stri…
The US and Iran have signed an interim agreement to end the war, but their ideological battles continue in the digital world.
The US and Iran have signed an interim agreement to end the war, but their ideological battles continue in the digital world.
An ideological war is being waged with apps, AI and hashtags
UNSTOPPABLE is how Japan’s so-called remilitarization is described by a growing sector of geopolitical analysts.
Israel has continued to attack Lebanon after the new ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect, raising fears that Tel Aviv is trying to wreck the fragile agreement tied to wider efforts to end Middle East hostilities.
Talks planned for Friday in Switzerland between Iran and the United States, which Vice President JD Vance had been scheduled to attend, were postponed as the fighting intensified in southern Lebanon, with Israel’s military claiming Friday its forces struck Hezbollah targets throughout the region.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has restrained himself from openly displaying his opposition to the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States. But looking to the positions of Israelis from across the political spectrum, and the military’s actions in Lebanon, the picture is clear: Israe…
Ukraine strikes Moscow: Oil refinery and residential buildings hit
It may be that when Israelis look back on the war with Iran, they will remember it not because of the operations, assassinations, or brief euphoria, but as the moment one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most important political assets finally collapsed: the belief that he was the man who knew how to preserve …
Vance Issues Warning to Israeli Critics of U.S.-Iran Peace Agreement1:16
Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire on Friday, after a sharp escalation in fighting threatened to unravel a fragile regional truce, a day after the United States and Iran signed an agreement to end the war.
Talks between the US and Iran on a final settlement to end the war have been postponed.
Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has struck out at critics of a memorandum of understanding signed by Washington and Tehran to end the US-Israeli war with Iran.
Sat 20 Jun 2026 at 12:36am
It is not another anonymously sourced report about a rift between the United States and Israel. This time, the administration of President Donald Trump appears genuinely frustrated with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war in Lebanon.
Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon continues to escalate despite a fragile US-Iran ceasefire framework, which includes Lebanon.
Former president nevertheless said in an interview that he was happy to see a ceasefire with Iran and hopes it holds
Israeli forces have conducted at least four strikes in Southern Lebanon after the ceasefire agreement took effect at 4 PM local time, Al Jazeera reported.
Andy Burnham is being tipped as the man who may become the next prime minister, after Sir Keir Starmer announced he was stepping down outside Downing Street on Monday morning.
The Israeli government and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon beginning at 4 PM local time, Reuters news; reported.
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Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire set to begin at 4 p.m. local time on Friday, a senior US official told Reuters.
Israeli strikes across 11 towns overnight killed at least 18 people and wounded 33, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Friday, as the deadliest escalation since the announcement of a US-Iran agreement raised fears for the future of the fragile truce. Both parties announced on Friday that they have agreed to a ceas…
The Kremlin on Friday praised the “high performance” of Russian air defense systems following the largest-ever Ukrainian air raid on Moscow since the start of the war, which ignited huge blazes at an oil refinery that supplies a major share of the capital’s fuel.
Update: the Yo-Yo insanity that is the on again, off again Iran war. Moments after we reported that futures and global risk assets had sold off overnight on a delay to today's start of peace talks in Switzerland due to Iran's protest of ongoing violence in Lebanon, moments ago Reuters reported that Israel and Hezbol…
Oil prices steadied on Friday and were on track to post a weekly loss on the prospect of increased supply in global markets after the US and Iran signed a deal to end the Middle East conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Israeli officials have openly said that troops will remain in southern Lebanon, as strikes between the Israeli military and Hezbollah continue overnight despite the signing of the memorandum of understanding on Thursday.
Oil prices are on track to close lower for the week, with WTI futures down more than 9% versus last Friday’s close after the US and Iran secured an interim peace deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The war with Iran is coming to an end, and the sense of disappointment in Jerusalem could hardly be greater.
