After two weeks of strikes and despite threats from President Trump to escalate the war in Iran by hitting civilian targets, there’s a pause in fighting between the two countries. It comes amid progress in talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, sources in Iran and Oman say. Charlie D’Agata reports. Source link
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that he wants to avoid opening a “new front” after Ukraine’s military struck an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea on Saturday. “We have to be careful. We have to do everything we can to not open a new front in any way,” Zelenskyy told Britain’s Sky News…
Israel will allow a multinational security force to enter Gaza as proposed under US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for the enclave, an Israeli official said on Sunday, a day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington. Netanyahu’s security cabinet on Sunday approved the legal framework that would allow the force’s entry to Gaza,…
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Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said in an interview on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” the pause in strikes against Iran is “giving diplomacy some space” and “a little bit of time” to work. He said of President Trump, “He is a president of peace. He is giving diplomacy a…
Fire crews in France and Spain continued to battle raging wildfires that have forced the evacuation of more than 300,000 people in the two countries. Authorities in France’s Gironde region, where the wine region city of Bordeaux is located, issued overnight evacuation orders for five more localities as shifting winds and arid conditions complicated the…
Iran passed another night without US airstrikes between Saturday and Sunday, as Washington paused a war nearing its fifth month and reports emerged that concerns over dwindling munitions were restraining plans for further escalation. The lull has revived hopes of a return to negotiations after nearly two weeks of consecutive nightly US bombardments, although US…
The United States on Thursday announced a slew of sanctions targeting more than 50 Mexican individuals and entities allegedly linked to one of the country’s largest drug cartels, including a California-born man Washington says is the Jalisco New Generation Cartel’s new leader. According to a statement from the Treasury Department, dual U.S.-Mexican national Juan Carlos…
An Israeli airstrike on Saturday killed the head of the police force in the northern Gaza Strip, Brigadier-General Abdel-Nasser Al-Maqadma, the enclave’s interior ministry and medics said. Maqadma, one of at least five Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, was also known as the governor of the northern Gaza Strip. He was killed in…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday he will share evidence with the United States showing Russia is assisting Iran in targeting U.S. bases in the Middle East via satellite surveillance. “Since the beginning of July, we have recorded active Russian satellite surveillance of the Gulf states and U.S. military facilities located there,” Zelenskyy said…
