Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the top US priority in the Iran war was keeping oil and gasoline prices low for Americans, with preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon ranking second. The remarks constrasted with President Donald Trump's repeated framing
The United States is considering sending presidential envoy Jared Kushner to Israel as President Donald Trump pushes a peace plan for Gaza, an official said Thursday. The news outlet Axios reported earlier that Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and go-to mediator for the Middle East
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali PANAMA CITY, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday threatened to maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely, ratcheting up economic pressure on Tehran as ceasefire talks have floundered, global oil supply is dropping and regional
Some sailors have reportedly tried throwing themselves into the sea, basic supplies can run short and sanitation is going awry: life on America's giant Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is increasingly difficult as the Iran war drags on. The ship -- now in its ninth month of
Jerusalem municipal authorities changed locks on a health center and cut off services for tens of thousands of Palestinians, an agency source told Haaretz. Last month, Israeli forces raided an East Jerusalem UNRWA training center, 'confining' staff and students
By Erin Banco WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. has received several warnings from Israel over the past year that Iran intended to assassinate President Donald Trump, including before a secret Air Force One ruse in Turkey, that U.S. intelligence officials could not
The strike follows a deadly Houthi attack on a ship in the Red Sea as the renewed conflict take its toll on shipping.
Aug 13 (Reuters) - Yemen faces its most serious threat of a return to large-scale war since a U.N.-brokered truce in 2022, U.N. envoy Hans Grundberg warned on Thursday, as the world body said more than half the country's population was experiencing acute food insecurity. The
Israel officially reopened the West Bank settlement of Ganim on Thursday, more than 20 years after it withdrew from the community, in a move emblematic of the current government's policy of rapid settlement expansion. The smell of freshly-poured asphalt hung in the air above
By Phil Stewart PANAMA CITY, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. military has enough assets to maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday, adding ships could be rotated in and out of the region as needed. Hegseth's comments suggest
Iran’s Central Bank governor said the country will soon join the New Development Bank as he traveled to India this week for a meeting of the group’s finance leaders.
Ankara pledged support for the proposed multinational alliance last month, but Friday’s expected signing will mark its formal entry into the Saudi-led grouping.
More than 100 people had to abandon ship after a fire engulfed a children's entertainment tour boat off southwestern Turkey on Thursday, officials said. Families were on board for the outing near the coastal resort of Fethiye, which is particularly popular with British
Iraqi authorities are cracking down on drone attacks after US and Saudi airstrikes targeted Iran-backed militias in the country.
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have escalated attacks after suffering setbacks more than three years into the civil war.
(Refiles to say two airstrikes in paragraph 1) By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes killed two Palestinians, including a senior police official, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, in the first reported fatalities in more than a week as the Israeli
The pact points to a more multipolar Middle Eastern security order, one in which Washington is no longer the unquestioned center of Gulf security.
One oil leak off the coast of Oman is estimated to cover more than 772 square miles, devastating local habitats.
BEIRUT, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A Lebanese official denied on Thursday a Reuters report that Beirut had agreed with Israel to a shortlist of countries that could send troops to Lebanon to verify the disarmament of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and said it was following up on
By Emily Giles, Elwely Elwelly and Melory Ghazi DUBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Iran's state media has mocked U.S. President Donald Trump after new details emerged about his secret aircraft switch during a visit to Turkey, saying it showed just how nervous he is about the Islamic
By Maayan Lubell and Maya Gebeily JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Israel won't withdraw from southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed, the defence minister said on Thursday, qualifying remarks he made a day earlier that had suggested Israeli forces would occupy the
Economic pressures and changing social norms are driving couples in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria to have fewer babies, with a recent study saying Maghreb fertility was at a historic low.
By Ali Sawafta QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Israeli troops took up positions inside Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra on Thursday, the mayor said, after settlers trapped Palestinian families this week in a siege Palestinians say is aimed at
By Ali Sawafta QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Israel's military said on Thursday it had sent more troops to a West Bank village where settlers have trapped Palestinian families inside their homes, a siege the Palestinians say is aimed at forcibly displacing them from
ANKARA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will form political and military mechanisms under a defence pact signed between the regional powers last week, Turkey's defence ministry said on Thursday, adding the alliance would also deepen defence industry
ANKARA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan will group senior ministers, hold joint exercises and deepen defence industry cooperation under a military pact signed between the regional powers last week, Turkey's defence ministry said on Thursday.
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch called for the release of two UN staffers and six NGO workers in Afghanistan following a string of Taliban detentions in recent weeks. HRW said on Wednesday that six male staff working with the Women and
Israeli forces on Thursday moved against rogue settlers who have besieged Palestinians amid unusually strong US criticism, even as Israel inaugurated a major settlement elsewhere in the West Bank. Settlers near Nablus since Sunday have blockaded Palestinian homes, including
Israeli forces on Thursday moved against rogue settlers laying siege to Palestinians amid unusually strong US criticism, even as Israel inaugurated an emblematic settlement elsewhere in the West Bank. Settlers at Qusra near Nablus since Sunday have blockaded Palestinian homes,
DUBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The Strait of Hormuz is "under Iran's control and management", the recently appointed head of Iran's Basij paramilitary unit said on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States had "total control" of the strategic waterway.
DUBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Iran will soon join the New Development Bank, the development lender established by the BRICS group of nations, central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said in a state media report published on Wednesday ahead of a BRICS finance meeting in India. Iran
DUBAI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The Strait of Hormuz is "under Iran's control and management", the head of Iran's Basij paramilitary unit, Hossein Taeb, said on Thursday, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. The remarks came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump wrote
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Hasseb Alwazeer CAIRO/GAZA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Gaza cancer patients are dying at two to three times the pace they did before the start of the war in the territory, as Israel blocks many from travelling for treatment after destroying the only local
The Houthis are attacking ships sailing through the Red Sea as part of the implementation of the blockade on Saudi Arabia. This is an integrated war in which Iranian interests are linked with Houthi ones, but one in which the Houthis determine priorities
ANKARA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on Wednesday he was joining the newly formed New Party, after a court order removed the leadership of his former Republican People's Party (CHP) amid an unprecedented legal crackdown on the opposition. Last
By Ben Blanchard and Raphael Satter TAIPEI/WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Taiwan detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies last month coming from overseas but the affected bodies successfully "handled" the incident, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said on Thursday.
By Yi-Chin Lee and Angie Teo TAIPEI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Air raid sirens rang out and streets emptied in Taiwan's capital Taipei on Thursday during annual air raid drills that also included the government deliberately limiting mobile internet access to simulate what might happen
By Ben Blanchard and Yi-Chin Lee TAIPEI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Taiwan's armed forces carried out an anti-blockade drill during annual war games, using the navy and coast guard to simulate escorting a merchant ship, the defence ministry said on Thursday, as China steps up its