Israel's parliament has dissolved after passing a series of controversial bills in marathon sessions in its last few days
July 17, 2026
Israel has again occupied much of southern Lebanon, 26 years after ending its 18-year occupation
July 17, 2026
The U.S. military said late on Thursday it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran that were carried out at President Donald Trump's direction
July 17, 2026
To air or not to air
July 17, 2026
The United States is expanding its airstrike campaign against Iran by increasingly hitting bridges
July 16, 2026
As Estonia's Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur prepared to fly to the NATO summit in Ankara this month, he revealed to local journalists that several hundred U.S. troops
July 17, 2026
Iran and the United States exchanged intensifying fire on Thursday in a week-long escalation that has largely
July 16, 2026
Fighting between the U.S. and Iran has intensified
July 17, 2026
Exclusive: Lawyer goes public with sexual misconduct claims against ICC chief prosecutor. He denies the allegations
July 17, 2026
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to divided Cyprus at the end of July to discuss peacebuilding efforts between the Greek and Turkish
July 16, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has called the release of a U.S. citizen held in Iran a "gesture of goodwill", even as conflict raged for a fifth night across the Middle East.
July 16, 2026
Exclusive: US military hasn’t conducted standard review of intelligence tied to strike on school in Iran, sources say
July 16, 2026
Trump says Iran has released American woman detained since 2024
July 16, 2026
Airbus is in talks to sell more of its A330neo widebody aircraft to Saudi low-cost carrier Flynas, with an announcement possible as early as next week's Farnborough Airshow,
July 16, 2026
Recent waves of U.S. strikes on Iran aimed at forcing open the Strait of Hormuz are also targeting Iranian military capabilities the U.S.
July 16, 2026
Two U.S.-based advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, arguing that sanctions imposed on the International Criminal Court violate
July 15, 2026
Lebanon and Israel concluded U.S.-brokered talks in Rome on Wednesday, with a U.S. official saying they had made progress on implementing a plan that could see Israeli
July 15, 2026
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least a dozen people in Gaza over the past two days, according to local health officials
July 15, 2026
A lead U.S. negotiator for the release of hostages captured by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel will have a book out this fall
July 15, 2026
JPMorgan has launched an expansion of its corporate banking business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as it seeks to grow income and claim market
July 15, 2026
The family of British couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman, who are serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran on espionage charges that they deny, said on Wednesday that a
July 15, 2026
G7 foreign ministers and the European Union's foreign policy chief on Wednesday urged Sudan's Rapid Support Forces and allied armed groups to stop all actions that could
July 15, 2026
The number of vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz ticked up on Tuesday, with most of them linked to Iranian trade, before a U.S. blockade
July 15, 2026
The U.S. military has reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports in response to Iran’s attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz
July 14, 2026
The U.S. military said on Tuesday it was launching more strikes against Iran. The strikes began Tuesday afternoon Eastern Time, the U.S.
July 15, 2026
Senate Democrats have blocked a $1 trillion annual defense bill in protest of President Donald Trump’s war against Iran
July 15, 2026
The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday the resumption of hostilities between the United States and Iran was a significant blow to civilians in
July 14, 2026
An Israeli strike and gunfire killed at least 10 Palestinians, including a 10-year-old boy, and a senior Hamas police officer, in the Gaza Strip on
July 14, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he did not think anybody should be able to charge a fee for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
July 14, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter Asian markets are crumbling and Brent Crude is bubbling around $85 per barrel as U.S.
July 14, 2026
CNN's Dana Bash presses Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on why settler violence in the West Bank hasn't ended.
July 11, 2026
Iranian state television says two members of the Islamic State group have been executed after they were convicted of armed rebellion against the Islamic Republic
July 14, 2026
Four in five Americans expect the U.S. war with Iran to drag on for an extended period, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted as fighting escalated and
July 14, 2026
A United Nations official has said Palestinian militant group Hamas was disrupting aid distribution in the Gaza Strip, placing further hardship on its civilians already
July 14, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said that the U.S. would take out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran, as he warned that Washington would continue to hit the country hard.
July 14, 2026
Democratic senators led by Kirsten Gillibrand called on Monday for President Donald Trump's administration to disclose within the next
July 14, 2026
A senior European Union official says the EU has coordinated efforts to raise $1 billion in aid pledges for rebuilding Gaza
July 13, 2026
The European Commission and more than a dozen countries launched an initiative on Monday to deliver €883.6 million ($1 billion) in aid projects to help Gaza recover from
July 13, 2026
The U.S. military has launched several waves of strikes on Iran over Tehran's attack on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz that set it ablaze and left a crew member missing earlier in the weekend
July 12, 2026
By Andrew Gray and Bart H.
July 13, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron is decrying the resurgence of antisemitism in France
July 12, 2026
Iran says it again considers the Strait of Hormuz closed after a vessel using an ‘unauthorized route’ was struck by a warning shot in the critical waterway — potentially further menacing the already tenuous ceasefire agreement with the United States
July 11, 2026
A congressman says he was detained by Israeli settlers and then the Israeli military as he toured the West Bank
July 12, 2026
Israeli settlers attack journalists, including CNN, on the anniversary of deadly West Bank beating
July 11, 2026
U.S.
July 11, 2026
The view from Tehran: Anger and vengeance in the air as Iran buries its longest-serving leader
July 11, 2026
A 300-year-old bonfire tradition in Northern Ireland has turned its flames on Muslims
July 10, 2026
Countries should reject efforts by Iran to impose sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and Tehran's "unilateral decision" to create a body to control
July 10, 2026
A Qatari delegation visited Iran on Friday in what is believed to be an effort by Doha to consolidate its role as a mediator after a recent escalation in hostilities in the Gulf,
July 10, 2026
Western leaders came to Turkey to discuss security in an increasingly perilous world
July 10, 2026
A cholera outbreak in Sudan could get worse as war, displacement and the onset of the rainy season threaten to exacerbate a humanitarian crisis in the
July 10, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN's Dana Bash that despite President Donald Trump's friendship with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his newfound willingness to sell them advanced F-35 fighter jets, the country is not a 'friendly state to the United States.'
July 08, 2026
Three former crew members of a Thai cargo ship struck in the Strait of Hormuz in March have filed a lawsuit against the vessel’s operator
July 10, 2026
Iran’s supreme leader missed his father’s momentous funeral – now what?
July 10, 2026
Stocks rose, and oil prices eased as financial markets calmed a day after President Donald Trump raised doubts about the temporary truce in the war with Iran
July 09, 2026
Senior British policing officials say technology and online platforms are increasingly being exploited for threats to the United Kingdom
July 10, 2026
Oil prices slid about 2% on Thursday on worries that rising inflation and other economic concerns could weigh on global oil demand despite continuing supply
July 09, 2026
The family of Faisal Jatoi, the Pakistani co-pilot missing with four others after their cargo plane crashed into the Arabian Sea, faced an agonising wait
July 09, 2026
Iran says millions are mourning Khamenei. That’s not the full picture
July 09, 2026
The Bank of Japan said on Thursday the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is likely to prod more firms to raise prices later this year, signalling caution over mounting
July 09, 2026
Funeral processions for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have been held in Iraq's holy cities of Najaf and Karbala
July 08, 2026
The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by hitting Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar in crossfire that again threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war
July 08, 2026
U.S.
July 09, 2026
Turkey put on a red-white-and-blue air show and named a new airport building after President Donald Trump, seeking
July 09, 2026
Why Trump left NATO summit on a positive note after seething about Iran, Spain and Greenland
July 09, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced at a NATO summit in Turkey that the U.S. will allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air defense systems
July 08, 2026
President Donald Trump on Wednesday informed his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa that he had decided to remove
July 08, 2026
U.S.
July 08, 2026
President Donald Trump threw a summit of NATO leaders into disarray on Wednesday as he demanded the United States cut
July 08, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not think a full-fledged conflict with Iran would erupt in the wake of military strikes from both sides.
July 08, 2026
Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat weighing a 2028 U.S. presidential run, said on Wednesday that Israel risks jeopardizing its alliance with Washington unless it
July 08, 2026
Pakistan urged all sides to uphold their commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, hours after U.S.
July 08, 2026
Oil surged and stocks and bonds dropped on Wednesday, after U.S.
July 08, 2026
The U.S. dollar dipped after reaching its highest level in about a week on Wednesday after U.S.
July 08, 2026
Water hauling is the new chore no rancher asked for
India youth protesters agree to end protests after talks with government
Israeli troops round up Palestinians in West Bank village after shootout involving settlers
Drone threat in Russia's Yekaterinburg disrupts Wildberries operations and athletics championships
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