Tag: MiddleEast
Shortage of Missiles Paused US Iran Strikes
President Trump's decision to shelve a planned two-week intensification of strikes on Iran followed a private warning from his own top general. General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cautioned Trump, in an account officials gave to the Wall Street Journal, that continued high-tempo strikes would deepen…
Israel Approves International Force’s Entry Into Gaza
Israel's security cabinet voted Sunday to grant the International Stabilization Force immunity under Israeli law, a legal enablement rather than an order to deploy, a day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departs for Washington to meet President Donald Trump on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace's…
Al-Sharaa: Syria Seeking Security Deal With Israel
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview aired Sunday that Damascus is actively working toward a security agreement with Israel that involves several other countries, expressing hope it could serve as a gateway to comprehensive peace, according to Al Jazeera. He said any such agreement would not compromise Syria's…
US Pauses Iran Strikes After Two-Week Bombing
US Central Command reported no new strikes on Iran as of Saturday morning. The National noted the halt followed 13 consecutive nights of announced attacks on Iranian military targets. The campaign had run without a break since a prior ceasefire collapsed earlier in the month.Trump framed the pause as tied…
Iran War Enters 13th Night as Talks Continue
The United States and Iran remain locked in overlapping tracks of warfare and negotiation, with President Trump calling talks the "most serious" yet even as US strikes against Iran continued for a 13th consecutive night. "I think they are by far the most serious that we've seen," Trump told reporters…
Israel Strikes Gaza After Displacement Orders
Israeli strikes killed at least two Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, hours after the military issued evacuation orders for four areas and then hit those same locations, according to Al Jazeera. Israeli air strikes destroyed homes in the Bureij and Jabalia refugee camps and in Gaza City's Zeitoun and Tal…
A New Gulf Order Emerges Under Fire
The US-Iran war is achieving what decades of summits and declarations could not: it has handed the Gulf monarchies a single, immediate security problem. Iranian missiles and drones have repeatedly struck Gulf territory. Reported strikes on Kuwaiti electricity-generation and water-desalination facilities took generating units out of service. Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis…
US Launches Twelfth Night of Iran Strikes
U.S. forces began a new wave of strikes against Iranian military targets at 5:30 p.m. ET Wednesday, "at the Commander in Chief's direction," according to a statement from U.S. Central Command posted on X. The statement said the mission would continue to "further degrade Iran's ability to threaten civilian mariners…
Saudi Arabia, UAE Signal Renewed Unity
Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman and UAE Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed. @Turki_alalshikh/X.Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have staged a coordinated show of unity, an effort to contain a widening rift between the Gulf's two most powerful Arab states.Saudi Media Minister Salman…
Trump Approves Saudi Nuclear Enrichment Deal
President Donald Trump has approved a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could allow the kingdom to enrich its own fuel for civilian reactors without adopting the "gold standard" of international oversight, according to CNN. Two U.S. officials and a source familiar with the matter told the network the deal…
