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Saudi Arabia said its air defenses intercepted a Houthi drone south of the Islamic holy city of Mecca on Tuesday, thwarting an attack that crossed a major “red line” in the conflict.

The energy minister of Saudi Arabia announced this week that his government had discovered a 110-million-ton cache of rare-earth minerals and uranium in Medina, the second-holiest city in Islam, that the country is expected to develop to diversify its energy sector.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) said that he sees the timeframe for a resolution of the Iran War being in months, not years and predicted that there will be a

Vice President JD Vance said the U.S.-Iran conflict will enter a “much different phase” within months, declaring the first stage of the campaign complete as Washington moves to prevent Tehran from rebuilding its nuclear and military capabilities.

Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, has reportedly invited Macklemore to perform a free concert in the Arab-majority city after the rapper was removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour following an anti-Israel rant on stage.

Israel has begun providing intelligence to Saudi Arabia through the United States as Riyadh battles an escalating Houthi offensive that has struck deep inside the kingdom and threatened the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to multiple Israeli reports Tuesday.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen continued attacking targets in Saudi Arabia on Monday, prompting Saudi authorities to issue civil defense alerts in several southern cities — including, for the first time, the Muslim holy city of Mecca.

Iran’s top security official warned President Donald Trump on Monday that the strategic balance around the region’s critical waterways has changed, ruling out negotiations until Tehran’s sweeping conditions are met and declaring that American “damage control won’t stop what’s coming.”

President Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) for U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia less than two months before the midterms.

Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, reflected on his decision to block rapper Macklemore from performing.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Russian financial institution VTB Bank for its continued involvement in assisting Iranian sanctions evasion. VTB is known to have over one thousand branches worldwide.

A planned conference with Iran and the Gulf Arab states over the future of the Strait of Hormuz was postponed by Saudi Arabia.

A U.S. Air Force officer whose F-15E was shot down over Iran has revealed how he prayed while plummeting toward the ground at up to 100 mph before surviving a broken back and other injuries — and 50 hours behind enemy lines as Iranian forces hunted him — in an ordeal he described as a “modern-day miracle.”

A fierce power struggle is gripping the top of Iran’s regime, with hardline security figures pushing to escalate the conflict with the United States as questions mount over who is actually wielding authority in the absence of the country’s unseen Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council Dr. Sebastian Gorka shared that under Trump’s leadership “the global jihadi movement is on the back foot.”

On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Way Too Early,” MS NOW Senior White House Reporter Vaughn Hillyard said that “so much of the vitriol…within our American communities, whether it be around antisemitism, Islamophobia, has been largely derived in our communities over the

On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Beat,” Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) responded to a question on how Democrats end the war in Iran by saying that “the president has to answer” that, and “I have voted about a dozen

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump defended his prediction that the Iran War will end after the 2026 midterm elections and responded to a question on why the war

President Donald Trump explicitly linked the ongoing fight against Iran to America’s post-9/11 fight against terrorism Friday, declaring on the 25th anniversary of the attacks that “there can only be victory.”

The Israeli military on Thursday destroyed a massive underground structure beneath the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon. The immense explosion, captured on camera by onlookers, was so powerful that seismologists recorded the event as a magnitude 4.1 earthquake.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen on Friday declared they have taken control of Perim, a small volcanic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a vital shipping chokepoint that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The capture came one day after the Houthis took control of the port city of Mokha with assistance from Iran.

Police forces launch special patrols, including armed and plain-clothes officers, to protect Jewish communities through Rosh Hashanah.

President Donald Trump warned Iran the United States will hit it “very hard” after revealing new activity at the Islamic Republic’s deeply fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site. The public cautioning marks a shift from July when he said Washington was closely watching the underground complex but saw “no activity” there.

During a portion of an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump responded to the idea of going in fully with the war in Iran and taking Iran’s regime out by saying

President Donald Trump is “strangling” Iran’s economy to pressure the “radical lunatics” running the country to give up on ever developing nuclear weapons, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) told Breitbart News.

Pakistan delivered a warning to Iran on Wednesday that if Tehran’s terrorist proxies in Yemen, the Houthis, continue attacking cities and oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan may be obliged to intervene under its defense pact with the Saudis.

Foreign Minister Saar called the opening a “historic day” and said “Israel is the fortress on the front line for Western civilization.”

During an interview with NewsNation on Wednesday, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin argued that the Iran war was needed because the Iranians “were within weeks” of a nuclear weapon “because of the disastrous policies of the Biden administration to be able

President Donald Trump predicted Wednesday that the war with Iran will end “immediately after” the November midterm elections, saying Tehran “can’t hold out any longer” as the United States intensifies military and economic pressure on the regime.

Intense fighting between the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents and the internationally recognized government of Yemen continued on Wednesday.

ABU SNAN, Israel (AP) — John Malkovich has canceled a planned performance in Israel after promoters circulated a quote attributed to the American actor that he said was completely false. The producer of the show acknowledged the mistake, citing “human error.”

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham defended his government’s decision to ban trade with Israeli settlements in West Bank.

Oil prices surged on Wednesday as fighting between the U.S. and Iran intensified in the Persian Gulf, raising concerns that the supply of oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz could be reduced. Brent crude futures, the global benchmark for