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Middle East
Trump gives Iran 48 hours to open Hormuz as Tehran strikes Israel
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping or face the destruction of its en...
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Middle East
Iran missile strikes wound over 100 in two south Israel towns
Iranian missile strikes on two southern Israeli towns wounded more than 100 people on Saturday, medics said, after Israeli air defence ...
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Lebanon
Katz says Israel to destroy south bridges, border homes as warning issued for al-Qasmiyeh bridge
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday that the army had been ordered to destroy more bridges over the Litani river being used by Hezboll...
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Israeli police said Wednesday that security forces seized roughly 1.5 million shekels ($447,000) of "terror funds" during a raid in the occupied West Bank a day earlier.
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The Israeli military on Wednesday launched an operation involving dozens of soldiers and armored vehicles in the old city of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, witnesses and Palestinian officials said.
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The Israeli military pressed operations around Gaza City on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump prepared to host a White House meeting on post-war plans for the shattered Palestinian territory.
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Clashes during a raid in Iran's restive southeast killed at least 13 militants as well as a Revolutionary Guard, state media reported Wednesday.
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Iran said Wednesday that the return of U.N. nuclear inspectors did not represent a full resumption of cooperation, which was suspended in the aftermath of June attacks by Israel and the United States.
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Lebanese state media said U.S. envoy Tom Barrack cut short a visit to the south on Wednesday amid protests in two planned stops against U.S. pressure to disarm Hezbollah.
The official National News Agency (NNA) reported that Barrack arrived by helicopter at a Lebanese Army barracks in Marjayoun near the border, with soldiers deploying in the area.
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U.S. envoy Tom Barrack told Lebanese journalists at a press conference at the country's presidential palace on Tuesday to "act civilized," sparking outcry and calls for an apology.
As journalists shouted questions after the U.S. delegation's meeting with President Joseph Aoun, Barrack stepped up to the podium in the packed room and said: "We're going to have a different set of rules... please be quiet for a moment."
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A new U.N. draft text seen by AFP would extend the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission followed by its withdrawal by the end of 2027.
The force was first deployed in south Lebanon in 1978 and was expanded after the 2006 war.
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Iran held talks on Tuesday with European powers, seeking to avert a sanctions snapback which they have threatened to impose under the moribund 2015 nuclear deal.
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The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has said a team of its inspectors are "back in Iran," the first to enter since Israeli and US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities this year.
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