Middle East

Iran threatens ships moving through Hormuz • US, Iran delegations arriving in Pakistan on Friday • Most Israeli schools to open on Thursday as Home Front Command updates guidelines

Iran had demanded in its initial 10-point proposal for Israel to halt its strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, leading to speculation of the terror group's inclusion in the deal.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said it had accepted the two-week ceasefire, while stressing that the war itself had not ended yet.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged both the Iranian leadership and Trump to implement a two-week ceasefire “to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war."

The Indonesian peacekeepers were killed in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon, with UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric calling the incidents "unacceptable."

The main route linking Bahrain and Saudi Arabia was closed, while Kuwait ordered citizens nationwide to stay near protected areas from midnight till 6 a.m.

Middle East news site Al-Monitor said Kittleson was a US freelance journalist based in Rome who had covered several wars in the region and had contributed articles to the outlet.

Two IDF officers and a civilian face indictments for smuggling contraband into Gaza using humanitarian aid trucks, part of a growing wartime smuggling investigation.

The Houthis' threat to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait may explain why Gulf states have not responded militarily to Iran’s attacks. Yemen expert Inbal Nissim-Louvton weighs in.

The attack follows US President Donald Trump's ultimatum to Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz oil chokepoint by Tuesday night.