Wednesday saw Israel continuing to attack towns and villages across southern Lebanon, wounding several people in strikes on Mansouri, Beit Yahoun, and Zawtar al-Sharqiyeh. Such strikes are effectively a daily occurrence in those areas. That’s particularly true of...
Trump Says Lebanon Ceasefire ‘Working,’ Locals Would Beg to Differ
Seven rounds of US-brokered talks and six Israel-Lebanon deals later, President Trump maintains that the ceasefire is “working.” What exactly that means and who exactly it’s meant to be working for is unclear, but the residents of southern Lebanon are telling a very...
Trump Claims the US Has ‘Total Control’ Over the Strait of Hormuz and May ‘Keep It’
President Trump claimed on Wednesday that the US has "total control" over the Strait of Hormuz and may "keep it" despite Iran continuing to demonstrate its control of the waterway and engaging in negotiations with Oman on its future. "The USA has total control over...
Ukrainian Drone Commander Says US and NATO Funding Needed To Escalate Drone War in Crimea
On Monday, Maj. Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, was profiled by Hannah Arhirova in The Associated Press. While Brovdi emphasized the strategic importance of conducting deep drone strikes within Russia, this summer he has been...
Araghchi: No One Thought Iran Could Resist the US Like This
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that he heard from diplomats from other countries that no one expected Iran to be able to "resist" the US in the way Iran has done in the war the US and Israel launched on February 28. "I have heard this many...
Report: Turkey Suspects Israel Fabricated Trump Assassination Plot To Derail US-Iran Diplomacy
Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday. The...
US Helicopter Bombs Cargo Ship in the Gulf of Oman
US Central Command on Tuesday announced that a US military helicopter bombed a civilian cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman that it accused of attempting to break the US blockade of Iranian ports. CENTCOM said a US Navy MH-60 helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles into the...
Russia Strikes Pound Ukrainian Cities, Killing at Least 10
Russian strikes pounded Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, killing at least 10 civilians, attacks that came a day after Ukrainian drones killed 13 civilians in the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk. According to The Associated Press, three people, including a 15-year-old boy,...
Israeli Strike in Lebanon Kills One Civilian, Wounds Another
Last updated 8/11/2026 4:55 PM EST Israeli forces carried out a double-tap attack against Nabatieh today, wounding two civilians in the initial strike and then attacking the ambulance that was attempting to rescue them. The ambulance was reportedly damaged, and no...
Missile Strike on Ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait Kills Four
A missile strike on a commercial ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday killed at least four crew members, Reuters has reported, in an attack blamed on Yemen's Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis. Ansar Allah hasn't officially taken credit for the attack, but...


