Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi (right) meets with Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Mohammad Kazem al Sadeq on July 20. (Iraqi Prime Minister’s Office) Reporting from Israel, Seth J. Frantzman is an ...
Two earthquakes that hit north-central Venezuela on June 24 have killed at least 4,829 people, injured 16,740, and displaced ...
Abdulmalik al Houthi, the leader of the Iran-backed Yemeni group, delivering a speech on July 16. (Saba) Three sources told Reuters on July 16 that Iran has instructed Yemen’s Houthis to close the Red ...
Members of the Syrian security forces pose with weapons confiscated on July 7. (Syria Ministry of Interior) On July 16, Syria’s Ministry of Interior announced that it had foiled an “attempt to smuggle ...
Moscow officially acknowledged its new S8000 Banderol air-launched cruise missile for the first time in a state media report published this week. This comes as the missile, designed as a low-cost ...
On July 16, Syrian authorities intercepted a weapons shipment concealed in an Iraqi oil tanker and bound for Hezbollah in ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi meets US President Donald Trump on July 14, 2026. (Iraq Prime Minister’s Office) Prior to his trip, on July 12, Zaidi met with US Ambassador Tom Barrack, the US envoy ...
A warning to international airlines published by the Houthis’ Yemeni Military Media X account on July 14. Saudi Arabia struck Sanaa International Airport in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital on ...
Israeli forces operating in Tel Sultan, Gaza, early in the war between Israel and Hamas. (IDF) On July 8, the US-led Board of Peace announced that it would soon establish a “pilot zone” in southern ...
On June 26, Israel and Lebanon signed the Trilateral Framework Between the United States, Israel, and Lebanon, whose goal is to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanon, secure both countries’ ...