Israeli jets and artillery pounded Hezbollah positions across southern Lebanon on Saturday, striking what the army described as rocket launch sites, weapons depots and underground tunnels as the conflict around Iran spilled openly across the region. The operations came in parallel with a joint U.S.–Israeli......
Several governments have begun withdrawing diplomats and urging their nationals to leave parts of the Middle East amid rising fears of a military confrontation involving the United States, Israel, and Iran. The moves follow the collapse of the latest talks on Iran’s nuclear program and a rapid......
Israeli airstrikes early Saturday targeted some of Iran’s most senior political and military leaders, according to Israeli sources cited by international media. Among those reportedly in the crosshairs were Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian, in what would mark......
Global leaders and national authorities have begun issuing urgent calls for restraint after the United States and Israel launched strikes on targets in Iran and Tehran responded with its own attacks across the Middle East. The exchanges have raised fears of a much wider conflict that could destabilize......
The United Arab Emirates has placed its security services on maximum alert as military tensions escalate across the Gulf following joint United States and Israeli strikes on Iran and subsequent Iranian missile launches in the region. In a statement issued from Abu Dhabi, the Ministry of Interior said......
Several United States embassies in the Middle East have instructed their staff to shelter in place and urged American citizens to do the same, after Iran said it launched missiles at US military bases across the Gulf in response to US and Israeli strikes on Iranian territory. Security alerts were issued......
China has delivered combat drones and is negotiating the sale of advanced anti-ship missiles to Iran as talks on Tehran’s missile capabilities progress, two regional officials told Middle East Eye. The development marks a major shift in Beijing’s engagement with Iran’s defense sector,......
Explosions were reported across Manama early Saturday after Iran said it had launched missiles at the headquarters of the United States Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, in retaliation for large-scale US and Israeli strikes on Iranian territory. Residents in several districts of the capital said they......
A senior Hezbollah figure has privately signaled that the group would stay out of any limited United States military action against Iran, while declaring that an attack aimed at Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or a bid to topple the Islamic Republic would compel the movement to join the fight.......
Somaliland has moved to deepen its ties with Washington by offering the United States exclusive access to its mineral resources and potential military facilities, intensifying a rivalry with Somalia for American strategic favor in the Horn of Africa. Khadar Hussein Abdi, Somaliland’s minister of......
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has wrapped up a rare visit to Ethiopia, using the trip to celebrate a century of diplomatic relations while cautioning against turning the Horn of Africa into a battleground for outside powers. At a joint news conference in Addis Ababa alongside Prime Minister......
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Washington has not asked Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, directly contradicting repeated public statements by senior US officials who insist that Iran must abandon the activity entirely. In an interview published online Friday by MSNBC’s Morning......
FIFA has promised to spend $50 million on a new national soccer stadium in the Gaza Strip, unveiling the plan at the first meeting of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Washington as part of a broader reconstruction drive for the war‑devastated territory. The commitment comes as international......
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