President Trump on Wednesday again claimed that the Strait of Hormuz was under US "control" and suggested he may rename it the "Trump Strait," comments that came as Iran's IRGC said that two tankers attempting to cross the strait hit Iranian mines. "Now that we have...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday visited the Israeli-occupied side of the Gaza Strip and vowed there would not be an Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territory as he continues to reject a US-backed proposal that would involve Hamas...
Early on in the March invasion of Lebanon, Israel defined a new boundary called the Yellow Line, south of which their operations were meant to be confined. This included a substantial amount of southern Lebanon, and led to an increasingly protracted occupation, but...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday that the only "real solution" for Gaza was the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population, which he calls "migration," and vowed that Israel will achieve this goal. "There is no real solution for Gaza in the...
Israeli attacks in Gaza on Wednesday killed at least two Palestinians as the IDF continues its constant violations of the October 2025 ceasefire deal despite the US announcing that Hamas agreed to a disarmament deal. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that a...
A US strike in southern Iran on Tuesday hit a residential building where a wedding reception was taking place, according to local Iranian officials and the Iranian Red Crescent. Ahmad Nafisi, the deputy governor of Iran's Hormozgan Province, told Iranian media the...
Vice President JD Vance spoke at a Republican Jewish Coalition event on Monday, where he called the US-Israel relationship "one of the most important alliances in the world" and discussed how to sell the special relationship to the growing number of skeptics in the...
US embassies across the Middle East issued new security alerts to Americans in the region on Tuesday as the US launched what appeared to be a heavy round of airstrikes across Iran's coast and the IRGC began to respond with attacks on US bases. US embassies in Jordan,...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Tuesday that Ukraine would escalate its drone attacks inside Russia and warned that "safe days" are over for civilian aircraft in Russian airspace. "Today, we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every...
Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuba's top diplomat in the US, has told Bloomberg that the Trump administration is unwilling to continue talks with the island nation and described the ramped-up US oil embargo, which has caused a devastating humanitarian crisis in the country,...
