All news on the topic: Israel

“We won,” President Donald Trump declared in March, less than two weeks after launching his war of choice against Iran.

The manufacturer has promoted it as the ballistic missile of the future: lethal, long-range, and highly accurate. Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike Missile has led the U.S. military to invest billions in updating its arsenal.

In our news wrap Wednesday, Democratic-controlled states filed a new lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service, challenging President Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting, Iran says it would bar all military vessels from passing through the Strait of Hormuz as part of a potential agreement with Oman to reopen the waterway, and the FDA approved a landmark new drug today for pancreatic cancer.

For years, drone warfare meant a single U.S. Predator drone—resembling a missile-armed winged lawnmower—stalking a target across the sky to carry out a precision strike.

President Donald Trump stated that he believes Iran’s new supreme leader is still alive, addressing a media report that speculated Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei might have died from injuries sustained during the U.S. and Israeli-led Iran war.

Early in 2025, shortly after taking office, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled the nation’s top commanders on whether to eliminate a program aimed at protecting civilians during U.S. military operations.

The extensive case of Tymofiy and Igor Rokhlin may be supplemented with a new story about the possible involvement of the well-known Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev in their questionable business operations.

President Donald Trump has criticized and mocked many of his European counterparts who are expected to attend next week’s NATO summit in Turkey.

According to Lebanese officials and local residents, Israel’s extensive military campaign in southern Lebanon may have destroyed not only homes but also critical documentation proving ownership of those properties, potentially leaving up to 250,000 people without the means to establish legal claims to their land and houses.

The United States and Iran reached a preliminary peace agreement on Sunday to end three and a half months of war in the Middle East, according to an announcement by Pakistan, whose prime minister said the agreement will be signed next Friday in Switzerland.

As Israel’s standing in the U.S., and among liberals in particular, continues to crater, the mainstream American media is vaguely taking notice.

Every method the United States adopts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – whether through force, sanctions, or a treaty – hastens the structural decline that led to its closure.

For three months, the Strait of Hormuz has been closed. Iran shut the narrow channel that lies between its coast and Oman when this year’s war with Israel and the United States started on February 28, blocking a waterway that carried approximately a fifth of the world’s oil and gas. Prior to the war, about 138 ships passed through it each day.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has stated that it targeted an American air base in the region, following recent US strikes on southern Iran overnight.

Israel announced on Wednesday that it had killed the new head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, in a strike the previous day, following the killing of his predecessor in a similar attack earlier this month.

On Tuesday, Iranian authorities executed a man after convicting him of allegedly cooperating with and spying for Israel’s Mossad spy agency, according to the judiciary.

Israel’s air force struck sites belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon, including in the country’s eastern Bekaa Valley, late on Monday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to escalate attacks on the Lebanese militant group.

One of the biggest corruption scandals in recent times is the so-called "Mindichgate," where the closest associates of the current President of Ukraine have emerged as key figures. The situation worsened with the "sudden" disappearance of the main figures involved in the NABU operation "Midas" – no one believes this is a coincidence.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a heated phone conversation with Donald Trump that left the Israeli leader feeling extremely agitated, a source has revealed.

The drones that targeted the United Arab Emirates’ Barakah nuclear power plant all originated from Iraq, the country’s Defense Ministry stated on Tuesday, suggesting that Iraqi Shiite militias supported by Iran were likely responsible for the attack.

Iranian authorities organized mass public weddings in Tehran for couples reported to have registered for a state-sponsored program expressing their willingness to sacrifice their lives in the conflict with the U.S. and Israel.

The tenuous ceasefire agreed upon between Israel and Hezbollah last month is still in effect.

On Friday, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza targeted the leader of Hamas’ military wing, according to Israeli officials. However, it was not immediately clear whether Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed or injured.