As sponsors pull out from London’s Wireless Festival over headliner Ye, its organizer is standing by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Melvin Benn, the managing director at Festival Republic, shared a statement on Monday backing his company’s decision
An official from a Lebanese Christian party was reportedly killed amid an Israeli airstrike east of Beirut on Sunday, adding to the growing tension between Hezbollah supporters and opponents after the Iran-backed terrorist group forced Lebanon into war against Israel.
LONDON (AP) — Pressure was mounting Sunday on American rapper Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a London music festival this summer, after criticism from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence organisation in Iran, Majid Khademi, was killed Monday in a targeted Israeli air strike.
Dutch police have launched a manhunt for a suspected terrorist after the building of a Christian pro-Israel group was bombed on Friday evening.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen claimed on Thursday to have struck Tel Aviv, Israel, with a “barrage of ballistic missiles.”
President Donald Trump’s budget request calls for Congress to boost defense spending up to $1.5 trillion, the largest increase in decades and signals the administration’s interest in raising defense spending over domestic spending.
Ugandan military chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba said on Monday that his country “experienced numerous cyberattacks” after his public offer to assist Israel in its conflict with Iran.
The Lebanese Army on Tuesday withdrew from four border villages, two of them Christian-majority towns whose residents have refused to follow instructions from Israel to evacuate the area while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) battle the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.
The Houthi insurgents of Yemen appear to have joined the Iran conflict on behalf of their arms dealers and paymasters in Tehran by launching missiles and drones at Israel on Saturday.
Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said on Tuesday that Israel is “prepared to keep operating for weeks to come,” even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that the war against Iran was “definitely beyond the halfway point” as it entered its fifth week.
TEHRAN — Iran fired missiles across the Middle East on Tuesday as its capital was hit by fresh explosions, after US President Donald Trump threatened the country’s key oil export hub, power stations and desalination plants.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a long-term solution to the escalating Strait of Hormuz crisis would require rerouting oil and gas pipelines westward across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea and Mediterranean, bypassing what he described as Iran’s “geographic choke point,” as Tehran moves to impose tolls on ships transiting the vital waterway and restrict passage through the corridor.
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, approved a record $45.8 billion defense budget Monday as the war in Iran entered its second month.
Iran’s plans to hide missiles on ‘container ships’ to raid commerce far away from its own waters has been disrupted, report states.
Israeli Police and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa announced they had agreed to allow Holy Week observances in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Israeli media reported Monday that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will not join any potential American ground operation inside Iran.
President Donald Trump suggested in a message on Monday morning that a “NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME” has taken over Iran and is talking to Washington – but warned he was willing to “obliterate” Iran’s energy infrastructure if talks did not lead to a durable agreement.
Israeli police officers sparked a diplomatic and religious row on Sunday after they stopped two top clergymen from going to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels announced their entry into the Middle East war on Saturday by launching a ballistic missile towards Israel, as the world struggled to contain the economic damage of a conflict now entering its second month.
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that it has become toxic to support Israel among Democrats and Democrats who are starting to refuse AIPAC money are saying that “Israel is
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Friday that ships traveling to or departing from ports belonging to countries it described as allies and supporters of the United States and Israel would not be allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that strikes on Iran will “escalate and expand” if Iran keeps launching missiles.
The campaign to prevent Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz continues with raid on country’s “primary” sea mine facility, Israel has said.
While more than 90 percent of Iranian missiles and drones have been intercepted by the United States, Israel, and allied forces, experts are reportedly warning that the cost of defense is quietly draining allied stockpiles across the region.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Thursday that the country’s military had eliminated Admiral Alireza Tangsiri of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), identifying him as the top official blocking the Strait of Hormuz.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday demanded an end to the conflict engulfing the Middle East, saying it is “high time” fighting stopped as it is “out of control” and threatens to subsume the entire world.
Pakistani officials on Wednesday said they delivered a 15-point ceasefire proposal from the United States to Iran. An unnamed senior Iranian official told Reuters the proposal has been received, and either Pakistan or Turkey could host further ceasefire negotiations.
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez scolded the U.S. and Israel on Wednesday for their ongoing attacks on Iran, calling the conflict an “absurd, cruel and illegal” challenge to international law.
The foreign ministry of Lebanon announced on Tuesday it has withdrawn the accreditation of Iran’s ambassador, giving him five days to vacate the country.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier grimly forecast a “deep rift” growing with traditional NATO ally the United States on Tuesday, slamming U.S.-Israeli military action against Iran as a “breach of international law.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced a new wave of airstrikes against regime infrastructure in Tehran on Monday, even as President Donald Trump said “good and productive” talks with Iran could bring the conflict to an end soon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday they have instructed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to destroy all bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River and wipe out structures that could be used to shelter Hezbollah fighters in an effort to apply the “Gaza model” to the Iran-backed terrorists of Lebanon.
Israel has warned that the Islamist Iranian regime has demonstrated the capability of using missiles to strike Berlin, London, and Paris and therefore European powers cannot afford to sit on the sidelines of the conflict.
Iranian missile strikes on two southern Israeli towns wounded more than 100 people on Saturday, medics said, after Israeli air defence systems failed to intercept the projectiles.
Czech authorities are investigating an apparent arson attack on an arms factory in Pardubice as a potential terror attack, with a group claiming responsibility and citing the firm’s dealings with Israel.
Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility was hit in an airstrike Saturday, an official Iranian news agency reported, saying there was no radiation leakage, as Israeli defense minister warned of an upcoming surge in attacks on Iran as the war in the Middle East entered its fourth week.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN Contributor Paul Begala said that Republicans and Democrats have “a terrible rift over Israel and antisemitism,” “And I tell all my liberal friends, who had a bigger pride parade, Tel Aviv or
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Friday that its spokesman, Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naini, was killed by U.S. and Israeli air strikes during Operation Epic Fury.
Iran’s Foreign Minister lectured the UK for lending tacit support to Operation Epic Fury in a telephone call with London, he said.
