“We need to avoid further regional escalation and urge all sides to show restraint. Iran should not respond,” Starmer said at the Commonwealth summit in Samoa. Saudi Arabia condemned the attacks against Iran, the Saudi Press Agency said on Saturday, against the backdrop of improved relations between Riyadh and Tehran. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia … Read more
An Israeli airstrike Friday on a refugee camp in northern Gaza killed at least 33 people including 21 women, the BBC reported, citing the Gaza Strip’s Hamas-run health authorities. Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya reiterated the Palestinian group’s position that no hostages would be released “unless the aggression against our people in Gaza stops,” France24 reported. Iran’s Supreme Leader … Read more
“Rabin was the closest prime minister to getting a peace settlement in the Middle East. He hated the settlers — really hated them. And he was ready to settle with Abu Mazen [PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas], though he didn’t like him. He understood that’s the only solution for Israel’s future,” Peri said. But Netanyahu had … Read more
Astonishingly scything through arch-foe Hezbollah’s upper echelons, remorselessly picking off leaders and military commanders one after another, Israel’s becoming increasingly bullish, convinced the disaster of Oct. 7 is being paid back. Israel is being made safer, victory snatched from the jaws of defeat — or so its leaders argue. And soon, they believe, it will … Read more
As the Iranian minister met with Lebanese and Hezbollah officials in Beirut, Israel continued to pick off top Hezbollah commanders with airstrikes. Hashem Safieddine, seen as Nasrallah’s most likely successor, was possibly among the dead in a series punishing Israeli attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut this week. Israeli officials say they are still … Read more
The Middle East is bracing for possible retaliation for the killing, a dramatic escalation of the conflict roiling the region. Some countries have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon, as fears grow of a possible Israeli ground invasion. The Israeli military has attacked hundreds of Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon in recent days, the IDF said, … Read more
“As a true friend to Russia’s, he made an invaluable personal contribution to the establishing of neighborly relations between our two countries and made great efforts to elevate them to the level of strategic partnership,” Putin’s letter, published on the Kremlin’s website, reads. “I had the luck of meeting Ebrahim Raisi more than once, and … Read more
Over recent years, Raisi’s loyalty to the regime and its brutal methods fired speculation about his potential to replace Khamenei as supreme leader — which would give him the last word on all big political decisions — although that elevation seemed less likely of late thanks to criticism over his competence as president. Indeed, even … Read more
On the Lebanese front, the Israel Defense Forces struck deep in northeastern Lebanon on Sunday, hitting what it called a “significant weapons manufacturing site” belonging to Hezbollah. The Lebanese group fired an estimated 40 rockets at northern Israel during the Iranian attack, according to the IDF. There is growing pressure on Netanyahu from ultra-nationalists and far-right … Read more
