The standoff over the Strait of Hormuz escalated again Saturday as Iran reversed its reopening of the crucial waterway and fired on ships attempting to pass, in retaliation after the United States pressed ahead with its blockade of Iranian ports. The strait is closed until the U.S. blockade is lifted, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy said... Read More

A French soldier was killed and three others wounded while clearing a road in southern Lebanon in an attack that UNIFIL peacekeepers and French officials said was likely carried out by Iran-backed Hezbollah. In calls with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the “unacceptable attack”, his office... Read More

At least six people have been killed and others injured after a person opened fire in Kyiv on Saturday, Ukrainian officials say. The incident happened in the southern Holosiivskyi district. Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the man, who lived locally, began shooting at people on the street and then took others hostage in a... Read More

Iran’s security council says it is “determined” to control the Strait of Hormuz until the end of the war, and calls the continuing US blockade on Iranian ports a “breach of the ceasefire”Iran’s security council says it is “determined” to control the Strait of Hormuz until the end of the war, and calls the continuing... Read More

Iranian media says Tehran has not agreed to 2nd round of talks with US * IDF says it raided home of terrorist who infiltrated West Bank settlement, detained brother Iran says it has reasserted control over Hormuz after US refuses to end blockadeCAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Iran swiftly reverses course on reopening the Strait of... Read More

Iran says it has reasserted control over Hormuz after US refuses to end blockad CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Iran swiftly reverses course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, reimposing restrictions on the critical waterway after the US says the move would not end its blockade. The country’s joint military command says that the “control of... Read More

Oil-US President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a month-long sanctions waiver allowing the sale of Russian oil and petroleum products that are at sea, extending an earlier move to soften surging energy prices. The license, issued by the Treasury Department, comes two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Washington would not renew the... Read More

Strait of Hormuz will ‘not remain open’ if US blockade continues, Iran’s parliament speaker warns Iran’s foreign minister says the Strait of Hormuz is “completely open” to commercial ships for the remainder of the ceasefire “THANK YOU!” Donald Trump posts on Truth Social – moments later, he says the US naval blockade of Iranian ports will continue until a peace... Read More