President Donald Trump signaled Monday that renewed U.S. military action against Iran would remain limited but warned Washington could still “smack” the Islamic Republic again, as he weighs a plan for additional strikes around the Strait of Hormuz following Tehran’s attack on American forces in Jordan.
Israel and Greece sealed a historic $3.5 billion defense agreement Monday that will see Jerusalem build Athens a complete multi-layered air defense network, significantly expanding the two countries’ strategic partnership amid growing security challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is subordinate to missing “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei, left Tehran on Monday to participate in a regional summit in which he is expected to meet with the dictators of allied China and Russia, as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.
President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a ten-second A.I.-generated video of Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal being “blown to smithereens,” as he put it, shortly after the first U.S. airstrikes against Iran in a month. None of the actual strikes was confirmed to have targeted Kharg Island.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday appointed Mazloum Abdi, former chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as one of his presidential advisers.
President Donald Trump declared Iran to be a “Failed Nation” and continued to criticize Iranian leadership for being “in total disarray” and being “incapable” of representing Iranian citizens.
Iran launched ballistic missiles and drones at U.S. forces in Jordan late Sunday, hours after the U.S. struck Iranian forces preparing to deploy sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, reigniting direct fighting between Washington and Tehran after a monthlong lull.
U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers Sunday after the military observed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces preparing to fire rockets carrying sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, prompting Tehran to vow retaliation in the first known American strike inside Iran since late July.
Iranian “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei called on Gulf states to unite against the United States and Israel as their “real enemy” in a written message Sunday, an overture to neighbors Tehran has spent months attacking and threatening as the Islamic Republic faces mounting military and economic pressure.
A former Iraqi official, who was honored and received an award under the Biden administration, has been placed on the United States government’s “Terror Watchlist” and had her visa revoked, according to multiple reports.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Will Cain Show,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that “not enough” oil is getting through the Strait of Hormuz, “And I don’t have an answer for that. … I don’t think anybody
Some Jewish Democrats in Michigan are concerned about safety as a state official has decided not to attend a major gathering on Saturday due to radicals within the party who have criticized U.S. support for Israel.
Hamza Iqbal, Rehan Khan, Judex Atshatshi, and Saif Ali have pleaded guilty to destroying Jewish charity ambulances in March.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged Friday that the U.S. blockade has slashed Iran’s trade and left critical imports — including gasoline — unable to enter the country, as the Trump administration intensifies an economic offensive aimed at isolating a regime already confronting mounting hardship and the threat of renewed unrest.
A sign of growing stress within the Iranian regime appeared this week, as hardline parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf feuded with Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor-in-chief of the Kayhan newspaper, a regime media organ close to the theocratic wing of the Islamic Republic.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that he had “creative discussions” with the leader of Qatar and “putting diplomacy back on track isn’t impossible” — a noticeable change in tune from Iran’s previous belligerence as the Iranian economy begins to collapse under the weight of U.S. sanctions.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” former Trump National Security Adviser and former Trump Envoy Keith Kellogg said that President Donald Trump is right to primarily rely on economic pressure on Iran over strikes, but “it’ll take time”
During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” former Trump National Security Adviser and former Trump Envoy Keith Kellogg said that “we don’t have eyes on the enriched uranium” in Iran. And “when you write the
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” former Trump National Security Adviser and former Trump Envoy Keith Kellogg said that Iran is being supplied by China, but “when you look at kinetic strikes and the military, they don’t have
U.S. Central Command confirmed Thursday that American forces have cleared Iranian sea mines from the Strait of Hormuz’s internationally recognized shipping lanes, opening the critical waterway to growing commercial traffic while a U.S. naval blockade has stopped Iranian oil exports entirely since mid-July — a dramatic shift President Donald Trump says has left Tehran “begging to make a deal.”
U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer asked the U.N. to apologize for honoring a late UNRWA employee who was a Hamas terrorist leader.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa paid for a coffee in Damascus using a Visa card on Wednesday, a common sight in most countries but unprecedented in the modern history of his country, as it represented the first such transaction since Syria was removed from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) list.
During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Amanpour,” former Hamas hostage Evyatar David said that his captors tried to excuse starving him and other hostages by saying “there is no food in Gaza. But we knew it’s not
President Donald Trump paid tribute to the 13 fallen servicemembers killed in the Abbey Gate bombing five years ago on Wednesday during former President Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
Nearly 1,000 Jewish entertainment moguls and insiders, and other prominent civil rights organizations are joining the condemnation of Disney’s “Spider Man: Brand New Day” star Mark Ruffalo over his antisemitic comments about Paramount’s Larry and David Ellison.
Massive lines at gas stations across Iran were spotted on Tuesday after the United States announced “Operation Economic Outcast,” an escalated campaign of economic sanctions and physical isolation against the regime in Tehran.
The leader of the Shiite jihadist terror group Ansar Allah, known commonly as the Houthis, marked the Islamic holiday celebrating the birthday of Mohammed on Tuesday with an accusatory screed claiming the government of Saudi Arabia was “serving Zionism” and threatening more attacks on the neighboring countries.
Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Tuesday that “significant progress” was made during a visit to Tehran by himself and Field Marshal Asim Munir, the powerful chief of Pakistan’s defense forces.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” host Lawrence O’Donnell said that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is “acting like a worldwide economic terrorist” while the speaker of Iran’s Parliament “taught Natalie Harp and Donald Trump a thing or
At least 14 newborn babies died on Wednesday morning after a deadly fire broke inside a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. According to international outlets, the deadly blaze erupted at 06:45 a.m. (local time) after an air conditioning unit exploded inside
President Donald Trump has broken Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. Navy cleared mines from the strategic waterway and opened additional shipping routes in what American officials are calling a “watershed moment” that has sharply diminished Tehran’s leverage over global energy markets while Washington simultaneously chokes off the regime’s own oil revenue.
China’s communist dictator Xi Jinping welcomed King Abdullah II of Jordan to Beijing on Monday, eagerly encouraging him to accept greater Chinese involvement in Jordan’s economy and help promote trade deals with fellow Middle Eastern countries.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared Tuesday that Iran’s leadership is already “panicking” under President Donald Trump’s mounting economic offensive — pointing to stark warnings from Tehran’s own president and parliament speaker about the country’s deteriorating economy while vowing to continue severing the regime’s financial lifelines until it “stands alone.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during an interview on Monday that Iran attempted to kill one of his sons. He did not say when the assassination plot took place or which of his two sons was the target.
The U.S. State Department officially removed Syria from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, and delisted al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) group, on Monday, completing a process President Donald Trump announced in July.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker stated that the “number one goal” in Iran is “getting a deal done that guarantees, forever, that Iran does not possess nuclear
Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) said Monday that far-left streamer Hasan Piker’s comments about American Jews who support Israel are “unacceptable,” after Piker displayed a photo of Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss during a livestream.
The office of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani denounced antisemitic statements from Brooklyn Democrat leader Carmella Charrington on Monday but stopped short of calling for a resignation.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Monday that Iran attempted to assassinate one of his two sons, publicly disclosing an alleged plot that had reportedly been known to Israel’s security establishment and barred from publication for months.
Iran threatened to treat support by “any country” for the Trump administration’s newly launched global economic offensive against Tehran as an “act of war,” vowing a response “more decisive than ever” as Washington moved Monday to sever the regime’s remaining financial lifelines.
