5+ hour, 41+ min ago   (992+ words) Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis will impose a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, they said on Monday, further throttling a global energy market already greatly restricted by Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is why it matters and what it…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (210+ words) The number of Iranian cyberattacks against Israel has shot up since the launch of the ​US-Israeli offensive against Iran this year, a senior ‌Israeli security official was quoted as saying on Monday. Yossi Karadi, Director General of Israel's National Cyber…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (627+ words) Manama. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Gulf allies ​on Thursday that any deal with Iran would take their interests into account, as he wrapped up a Middle East trip aimed ‌at selling the Trump administration's preliminary accord to…...

1+ mon, 4+ day 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+ mon, 5+ day 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+ mon, 6+ 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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, 4+ week ago   (886+ words) DubaI. 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…...

1+ mon, 4+ week 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…...