The Houthis have since become more active, adding to the risks surrounding commercial shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Following the October 7 attacks, the movement intermittently entered the conflict with Israel
On July 29, 2026, the US District Court for the Western District of New York (Buffalo, New York), convicted an American national, Hadi Matar, of Lebanese descent on charges of federal terrorism
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The United States appears to be shifting from the threat of military escalation towards renewed diplomacy with Iran after weeks of strikes failed to achieve Washington’s central objective of compelling Tehran to
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Lebanon has become a central arena in the intensifying struggle between two competing visions for the Middle East. On one side is a United States-led strategy aimed at integrating the region more
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has expressed appreciation to the Government of Sri Lanka for its cooperation in repatriating the bodies of those killed in what he described as the “unlawful and cowardly”
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For the principal of a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, the morning began not with the sound of explosions overhead but with a decision to protect her students. Shortly
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The view from Ahmed Alafi’s home stretches across Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley to the snow-capped mountains beyond, but the former Hezbollah operative can no longer see it. The explosion that changed his life
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The reported Iranian drone strike on a U.S. military base in Jordan on July 17, which killed two American soldiers while another remains missing, has pushed the West Asia crisis into a
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Months after a fragile ceasefire temporarily slowed direct military confrontation, signs are mounting that the United States and Iran could be moving toward another phase of open conflict. Escalating military exchanges, increasingly
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Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has warned that the United States will not achieve its objectives in the conflict with Iran through airstrikes alone, arguing that a sustained military campaign is
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The US and Iran are back at war. On Monday, President Donald Trump announced the United States would reimpose its naval blockade of Iran, effective Tuesday afternoon. Iran responded by declaring the
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An investigation details how an ambitious Israeli strategy involving Kurdish militias, covert influence operations and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad evolved into one of the most far-reaching regime-change plans ever contemplated before
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Hitting more than 170 targets in Iran in 48 hours across two waves is an unprecedented escalation. The recent third wave of attacks, targeting more than 100 sites, has set the stage
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The war involving Iran has created a chain of consequences extending far beyond the Middle East, with African countries increasingly absorbing the economic and security fallout from disruptions to global energy flows
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With missiles flying again and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral underway, President Trump has declared the ceasefire “over.” Still, the real question is whether Iran can actually afford to walk away from the
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Three weeks ago, Donald Trump stood before cameras and called his truce with Iran an unconditional surrender. This week, at a NATO summit in Ankara, he declared that same truce dead, telling
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