1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (182+ words) Somaliland has opened an embassy in Jerusalem, becoming one of the few foreign entities to establish a diplomatic mission in the disputed city, six months after Israel recognised the breakaway territory as an independent state. The embassy was inaugurated during…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (841+ words) Evian-les-bains. Doubts swirled around the U. S. -Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East as shippers said it could take weeks for confidence to return after any reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamental questions remained unanswered....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (444+ words) Washington. Former director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, has welcomed the recently announced US-Iran peace agreement, arguing that Washington should reconsider its military and intelligence support to Israel if it wants the deal to succeed. Kent made…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago  (905+ words) Jerusalem. Israel's decision to launch renewed strikes on Iran despite public calls for restraint from US President Donald Trump has underscored growing tensions over the direction of diplomatic efforts to end the conflict and highlighted Israel's determination to ensure its…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago  (714+ words) Jerusalem. The medieval Beaufort Castle's stone ramparts tower so far above south Lebanon that Israel could hail their capture as a strategic victory, even as it evoked the miseries of a previous occupation. When Israeli forces entered the 900-year-old castle…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (886+ words) Duba I. Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a directive that the country's near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad, two senior Iranian sources said, hardening Tehran's stance on one of the main "US'demands at peace talks. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's order could…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (765+ words) US'Air Force tanker aircraft are lined up at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel, May 19, 2026.' Dubai/Washington. Pakistan stepped up diplomatic efforts on Thursday to hasten US and Iran peace talks, as Tehran said it was…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1472+ words) Washington. With his decision to pull some US troops from Germany, his threats to draw down forces elsewhere in Europe and his downplaying of Iran's recent attacks on an important Gulf partner, President Donald Trump's latest moves foreshadow what could…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (675+ words) Washington. The US and Iran appeared no closer on Saturday to finding an end "to their war after the two sides traded fire in the Gulf amid a tenuous ceasefire, while a US'intelligence analysis concluded Tehran could "withstand a naval…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (622+ words) Beirut. Israel struck Beirut on Wednesday for the first time since agreeing to a ceasefire "with Hezbollah last month, with Israel saying it targeted a commander of the militant group's elite Radwan force in the city's "southern suburbs. Israeli Prime…...