Middle East


Former Biden adviser Hochstein rejects Lapid's claim Israel blocked a US-Saudi nuclear agreement

 U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein speaks to the media after meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon November 19, 2024.

Iranian media pushing for regime to sever international undersea fiber-optic cables in Hormuz

Workers operate on a lead line connected to fiber optic cable at Arrietara beach, near Bilbao, northern Spain, June 13, 2017, as Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. join forces to build an underwater fiber optic cable across the Atlantic Ocean, linking Europe and the USA.

Number of Iranian military personnel reported killed by US strikes this week rises to 13

A screengrab from a video obtained from social media on September 1, 2026, shows a military aircraft ready to take off on the day US CENTCOM said US forces carried out strikes on an Iranian military target.