US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an agreement for the "complete disarmament" of Hamas, calling it a critical step toward a new Palestinian government in Gaza. There was no immediate statement from Hamas on the agreement, but Trump's announcement came after
July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday the Board of Peace had reached an agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza, which would be carried out in phases and eventually lead to Israeli forces withdrawing.
Tehran's forces have carried out frequent missile and drone attacks in the Middle East since the breakdown of the US-Iran ceasefire, raising renewed concerns about Washington's supply of the weapons needed to intercept them. Highlighting the issue, the US military said it shot
Riyadh won political backing from 14 countries for its proposed maritime defense coalition, but members have yet to commit to joining as Washington weighs its position.
Twelve years after the Islamic State's "genocide" of Yazidis in Iraq, Nadia Murad, a former sex slave of the jihadist group, said Thursday that progress towards justice remains far too slow. IS jihadists seized large swathes of northern Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014,
WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday issued new sanctions on Thursday targeting global networks supporting Mahan Air, the Iranian carrier Washington says transports Iran's Revolutionary Guards personnel, as well as weapons and drones. The U.S. Treasury
By Alan Baldwin and Ian Ransom LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - European soccer's governing body UEFA and its 55 member nations on Thursday voted to boycott all FIFA tournaments in what could be a knockout blow to the global soccer organisation's proposal to sell a stake in the
By Jonathan Saul, Marwa Rashad and Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - A drone strike that damaged two gas tankers in Egyptian waters has renewed energy security concerns about the nearby Suez Canal and a related pipeline, a vital export route for Saudi Arabian oil since
Britain's Supreme Court said on Thursday it has agreed to hear the high-profile case brought by the co-founder of activist group Palestine Action appealing against a contentious government ban which has led to thousands of arrests. Huda Ammori has been fighting the group's
An increasingly emboldened Tehran has put President Donald Trump in a bind.
Aoun paid a one-day visit to Ankara amid Lebanon's push to secure an Israeli withdrawal and end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
By Timour Azhari and Mohammed Ghobari RIYADH, July 30 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia this week from Iraqi territory in coordination with Iraqi armed groups, according to assessments by Saudi Arabia and regional partners, reflecting growing
LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's Supreme Court has said it will hear an appeal against a lower court ruling that Britain's decision to ban campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was lawful. London's Court of Appeal ruled in June that
DUBAI, July 30 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi urged Bulgaria to reconsider its decision to allow the temporary deployment of U.S. military aircraft at the Bezmer air base, Iranian state media reported on Thursday.
The attack is the first on Egyptian territory since the Iran war erupted in February, raising the risk of further widening the Middle East conflict.
The kingdom saw a 24.7% year-on-year decline in its oil sector for the April 1 to June 30 period due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
By Mohamed Ezz, Marwa Rashad and Jonathan Saul CAIRO/LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - A drone caused the fire that engulfed two gas vessels at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta, the Egyptian cabinet said on Thursday, confirming that the blaze which erupted a day earlier was the
By Samia Nakhoul and Timour Azhari BEIRUT/RIYADH, July 30 (Reuters) - As the Iran war escalates again, Gulf Arab states are looking to China - not Washington - to use its economic leverage over Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea, testing how far Beijing is able
Israeli authorities filed more than 70 indictments over the past two years against people accused of having contact with the Islamic Republic's intelligence services. A Haaretz investigation found that most had no ideological motive and passed public information
Tehran's ambitions require an unstable Middle East and the Hormuz under its thumb, which precludes any hope for peace and prosperity in the region
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump said that the civilian nuclear cooperation agreement Washington signed with Saudi Arabia is conditioned on the kingdom joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel
Mediator Pakistan insisted on Thursday that negotiations between Iran and the United States were ongoing, even as Washington carried out a "heavy wave of strikes" on its foe in retaliation for fresh attacks targeting Jordan. The last two days have seen Saudi Arabia join the US
By Ebrahim Hajjaj , Dawoud Abu Alkas and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO, July 30 (Reuters) - Standing on the roof of a war-damaged building overlooking the ruins of Gaza City, beekeeper Ibrahim al-Dabba gently lifts a honeycomb frame as bees buzz around him. "Bees require trees,
By Jonathan Saul, Marwa Rashad and Mohamed Ezz LONDON/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) - A drone caused the fire that engulfed two gas vessels at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta, the Egyptian cabinet said on Thursday, confirming for the first time that the blaze which erupted a
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, July 30 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes killed at least three people, including two children, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as mediators held new talks with Hamas leaders to work towards full implementation of a U.S.-brokered Gaza
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, July 30 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes killed at least four people, including two children, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as mediators held new talks with Hamas leaders to work towards full implementation of a U.S.-brokered Gaza
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, July 30 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes killed at least four people, including two children, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, as mediators held new talks with Hamas leaders to work towards full implementation of a U.S.-brokered Gaza
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, July 30 (Reuters) - Talks between mediators and Hamas leaders in Cairo to reach an end to the conflict in Gaza have seen rare progress towards full implementation of a U.S.-brokered Gaza peace plan, sources close to the effort said on Thursday.
By Nafisa Eltahir, Elwely Elwelly and Tala Ramadan DUBAI, July 30 (Reuters) - A drone strike on gas vessels in Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta signalled a potential new front in the U.S.-Iran war, raising the prospect of threats to navigation through the Suez Canal, one
Netanyahu also blamed social media and foreign bot farms for a decline in the American public's support for Israel, saying the trend concerns him and adding that bipartisan U.S. support for Israel is 'a fundament of our national security'
The U.S. military had carried out retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets after Tehran attacked a U.S. base in Jordan, while Saudi Arabia had joined Washington in strikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq. A senior U.S. official said the administration was not currently
To protect its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran is actively thwarting alternative energy corridors and deepening its foothold in Lebanon and Iraq by mobilizing its militia proxy network
A federal jury on Wednesday convicted novelist Salman Rushdie's assailant of "engaging in an act of terrorism" for the bloody August 2022 attack at a New York cultural center. Hadi Matar, a 28-year-old Lebanese American, "chose to align his values with the terroristic values
By Kanishka Singh and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, which lasted two hours and hit dozens of targets, with Washington casting the strikes as a "powerful response" to Iranian
WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - The United States is conducting air strikes in Iran, the U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday. The strikes started at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT), it said. "The strikes are a powerful response to yesterday's attempted Iranian attacks on U.S. forces
The US says the strikes were retaliation for an attempted IRGC ballistic missile attack on a US airbase in Jordan as Iranian state media report explosions in the country's south.