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Trump Says US Forces Will Stay in the Middle East Until Iran Is 'Completed'

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- He called it a "completion." Not a deal, not a ceasefire, not a withdrawal. Three months into the most sustained American military engagement in the Middle East since Iraq, Presi... Read More


Trump Says US Will Take Iran's Uranium Whether or Not a Deal Is Reached

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The question was simple enough: what happens to Iran's uranium stockpile if negotiations collapse? Donald Trump's answer, delivered to NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, stripped th... Read More


Trump Says US-Iran Deal Is Within Reach but Nuclear Terms Still Divide the Two Sides

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The optimism was unmistakable. President Donald Trump, speaking in a pre-recorded interview aired Sunday on NBC News' Meet the Press, declared that the United States and Iran wer... Read More


Iran Parliament Confirms $2 Million Per Vessel From Hormuz Fees - and Shipping Firms Face a Sanctions Trap

New Delhi, June 7 -- The number surfaced not from a government ministry or an IRGC press briefing, but from a budget committee. Mohsen Zanganeh, a member of the Iranian parliament's Planning and Budge... Read More


IDF Strikes Dahiyeh Again as Netanyahu Vows No Sanctuary for Hezbollah Command Centers

That sequence, June 7 -- The smoke had not finished rising from the last round of strikes on Dahiyeh when the next order came down. On Sunday afternoon, Israeli forces hit what the Israeli military de... Read More


Sri Lanka's Anti-Corruption Blitz Claims Officials from Motor Traffic to Parliament

The commission, June 7 -- The bureaucrat who signed off on an irregular vehicle transfer in 2017 did not expect to face handcuffs nearly a decade later. Neither, perhaps, did the finance official at a... Read More


Inside the Bomb Lab That Greek Intelligence Found Before the Ship Arrived

ATHENS, June 7 -- The apartment on Acharnon Street in the Kato Patisia district of Athens looked like any other rented flat in the middle of a working-class neighbourhood. But when Greek counterterror... Read More


Hamas Member Arrested in Crete Had Athens Bomb Lab and Cruise Ship Target, Greek Police Say

HERAKLION, June 7 -- He had kept a low profile for nearly two years, renting a room in the eastern Cretan town of Agios Nikolaos while working seasonal shifts at a nearby hotel. His Athens apartment, ... Read More


Pakistan Delivers Joint Military-Civilian Message to Iran's Supreme Leader as Nuclear Deal Stalls

New Delhi, June 7 -- The envelope reached Iran's foreign minister on a Sunday morning, but its intended recipient has not been seen in public since February 28, the day the war began. Pakistan's Inter... Read More


Iran Accuses US of Ceasefire Violations, Warns of Escalation After Radar Strikes

TEHRAN, June 7 -- The warning arrived in the language of formal diplomatic censure, but the message was unambiguous: Iran's Foreign Ministry declared Saturday that the United States had become the reg... Read More