14+ min ago  (333+ words) June 27 (UPI) -- The United States attacked Iranian drone sites Saturday morning, and Iran hit Bahrain in response. In Bahrain, two one-way attack drones hit the country, according to the New York Times. One was shot down by a ground-launched air-defense…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago  (432+ words) June 27 (UPI) -- Israel and Lebanon have created a framework for a cease-fire, though Hezbollah is already rejecting it because it calls for disarming the organization. The neighboring countries signed a cease-fire deal in Washington, D. C. , Friday without Hezbollah's input. The deal…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (606+ words) BEIRUT, June 26 (UPI) -- Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Friday that Israel must withdraw from Lebanon "humiliated" and without conditions, rejecting normalization or an end to the state of enmity with it, and describing Iran as the "path to…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1191+ words) BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 26 (UPI) -- U. S. President Donald Trump's repeated suggestions that Syria's new leader, Ahmad Sharaa, can better curb Iran-backed Hezbollah than Israel have alarmed Lebanon and Syria, reviving painful memories of decades of troubled relations, military interventions, and sectarian violence....

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (498+ words) June 25 (UPI) -- A cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz was attacked Thursday, prompting officials to halt the evacuation of sailors stranded in the chokepoint by the war. It was unclear who attacked the cargo ship. According to the British…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (497+ words) June 24 (UPI) -- Democratic lawmakers accused the Trump administration Wednesday of seeking to push through a multimillion-dollar arms deal with Turkey by bypassing congressional review, the latest executive action critics say usurps the lawmakers' authority. Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N. Y. , ranking member…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (272+ words) June 24 (UPI) -- The Israeli military has surrounded an underground base in southern Lebanon in which dozens of Hezbollah militants are trapped, Israeli officials said. The base is located under the village of Tebnit, in an area where fighting taken place…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (226+ words) June 23 (UPI) -- A U. N. human rights committee said Tuesday that Israel is continuing to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip and is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. The U. N. International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory published a report concluding that…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (534+ words) June 22 (UPI) -- Round one of two months of U. S. -Iran talks in Switzerland aimed at reaching a final agreement to end the war wrapped up with "encouraging progress" on the Hormuz Strait and shoring up the cease-fire in Lebanon, regional intermediaries…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (304+ words) June 20 (UPI) -- A Lebanese conservationist and protector of sea turtles died from injuries she suffered when her home was hit by an Israeli strike. Mona Khalil, 76, died after suffering injuries from an Israeli attack on her home at al-Mounsouri Beach…...