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Russia Shipping Explosives and Drone Parts to Iran to Rebuild Iran War-Depleted Arsenal

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The wooden crates moving across the Caspian Sea are carrying more than trade goods. Russia has been routing explosives, drone components and battlefield ammunition to Iran throu... Read More


Gaza War: Kushner Meets Hamas in Egypt to Push Peace Deal Netanyahu Already Rejected

ALAMEIN, Aug. 17 -- More than 1,250 Palestinians have been killed since a ceasefire began in October 2025. The bombs did not stop. On Saturday, Jared Kushner, the US president's son-in-law and person... Read More


Iran War: Tehran Puts $30,000 Bounty on US Troops as Persian Gulf Ceasefire Nears Collapse

TEHRAN, Aug. 17 -- An American soldier's life is worth $30,000 in Tehran. That is the price Iran's Army formally put on American troops Sunday, offering a bounty for the killing or capturing of any Un... Read More


Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Calls for Killing '30 to 40' Palestinians in Gaza Every Night

JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 -- Israel's far-right national security minister escalated his public calls for mass killing in Gaza this week, stating on a podcast that Israeli forces should "kill 30 or 40" peopl... Read More


Iran Nuclear Deal Deadline Expires: Trump Threatens to Bomb Oman as Hormuz Talks Fail

MUSCAT, Aug. 17 -- When diplomats from Tehran and Muscat agreed in early August on the coordinates of shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz, it appeared, briefly, like the geometry of a deal. In... Read More


Iran War: Qatar Denies Holding Three Pilots from Al Udeid Strike as Tehran Demands Investigation

The dispute, Aug. 17 -- Three Iranian military pilots have not spoken to their families in six months. Their government says they are alive, held in Qatar. Doha says that is simply not true. Qatar is... Read More


Iran-US Ceasefire Expires Monday: Trump Claims Hormuz, Tehran Refuses Talks

DUBAI, Aug. 17 -- Every tanker captain transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday will be operating in a legal vacuum. The memorandum of understanding that ended three months of war between the United ... Read More


Iran War: US-Iran Peace Deal Expires as Trump Threatens to Seize Hormuz and Tehran Hardens

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The agreement that was supposed to end the Iran-United States war expired Monday with no extension, no new framework, and no date for the negotiations that both sides say they ha... Read More


Houthi Missiles Kill Four in Yemen's Al-Makha, Strike Marib as Civil War Escalates

SANA'A, Aug. 17 -- The port director of al-Makha spent most of Saturday watching his operations come to a halt for the third consecutive day. Houthi missiles had struck the Red Sea city's outskirts an... Read More


Israeli Airstrikes Kill Eleven in Southern Lebanon Despite Two US-Brokered Ceasefires

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- Seven people were killed in Ansar village in southern Lebanon on Saturday when Israeli warplanes struck what Beirut's government described as a residential area. Three more were ... Read More