Renewed Fighting With Iran Shows Cracks in Peace-Trade Rally
Investors have taken heart from the fragile cease-fire between the United States and Iran before. Will they do so again?
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Trump's rhetoric U-turn leaves Iranians between dread, hope and memes
President Donald Trump’s tougher rhetoric toward Iran and renewed US strikes have stirred mixed reactions among Iranians, from hopes for political change to fears of another long and unresolved conflict after months of living between war and peace.
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Netanyahu’s son Yair adopts new name in latest family name change
Netanyahu’s son Yair adopts new name in latest family name change Submitted by MEE staff on Thu, 07/09/2026 - 10:52 Reported change comes as the Netanyahu name becomes toxic for a son seeking business ties in the US Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his son Yair in 2015 (AFP) Off Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has changed his name to Yonatan Hon, Haaretz reported on Wednesday. The Israeli newspaper said tax-withholding approvals issued in December 2024 carried his previous name, Yair Netanyahu. This year, the same identifying details appeared under the new name, including a fictional address listed as "Balfour 0".
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Xinhua Headlines: NATO summit exposes deepening rifts as U.S. demands unsettle allies
* U. S. President Donald Trump pressed NATO members to raise defense- and security-related spending to 5 percent of GDP, placing growing pressure on European budgets.
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Turkey 'prevented Kurdish invasion' of Iran during Israeli-US war
Turkey 'prevented Kurdish invasion' of Iran during Israeli-US war Submitted by Nadav Rapaport on Thu, 07/09/2026 - 09:36 Ankara pressured Washington not to back Kurdish fighters who were prepared to invade, according to Israeli media Iranian Kurdish fighters during routine military exercises in Koya, in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq (AFP) Off Turkey thwarted an Israeli and US -backed incursion of Kurdish forces into Iran during the war on Iran earlier this year, Israel's i24News reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Kurdish militias were ready to launch an attack on Iran, but the US halted the operation due to pressure from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Senior Israeli sources, who spoke with i24News, said the Kurdish operation was planned for months by US intelligence agencies.
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Teenage Palestinian girls held in Israeli prison have their futures put on hold
Teenage Palestinian girls held in Israeli prison have their futures put on hold Submitted by Mojahid Nawahda on Thu, 07/09/2026 - 10:06 Abusive conditions, poor food and lack of sanitary products are life for the hundreds of Palestinian minors held in Israeli custody Family of Nada Bani Odeh hold their imprisoned daughter's possessions (Mojahid Nawahda/MEE) Off As thousands of Palestinian students complete their final high school exams this summer and look ahead to university, 17-year-old Nada Bani Odeh and 16-year-old Ola Qutaishat are spending these same weeks behind bars in Israel’s Damon Prison, far from classrooms, textbooks and the futures they had been preparing for. Nada was due to sit the Palestinian secondary school examinations, known as "tawjihi", this year, while Ola had just finished the 11th grade and was preparing for her final year of school. Instead, the two girls - among the youngest Palestinian female prisoners - now face repeated court hearings after being arrested in separate cases over social media posts.
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World Cup 2026: Iraq returned, but it will take years to bridge the gulf with football's elite
World Cup 2026: Iraq returned, but it will take years to bridge the gulf with football's elite Submitted by John Duerden on Thu, 07/09/2026 - 10:50 Iraq must turn its first World Cup appearance in 40 years into lasting progress – through better coaching, youth development and domestic reform Iraq's players applaud their fans after a 5-0 loss to Senegal and their elimination from the Fifa World Cup, in Toronto, 26 June 2026 (Megan Briggs/Getty Images/AFP) Off Iraq ended a 40-year wait and returned to football's biggest stage this summer, but the scale of their World Cup defeats showed just how far they still have to go to compete with the game's elite nations. The Lions of Mesopotamia began their campaign with a 4-1 defeat to Norway, followed by a 3-0 loss to France, before they crashed out of the tournament with a 5-0 defeat to Senegal. No team conceded more goals in the group stage.
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Iran summons UK ambassador over stabbing allegation
Iran summons UK ambassador over stabbing allegation Iran has summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to protest what it called "baseless accusations", state media said on Thursday, after a London court jailed two people for a knife attack it said was carried out at Iran's behest. "Following the repetition of false and baseless accusations by British officials against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the country's ambassador in Tehran was summoned to the ministry, and the Islamic Republic of Iran's protest against the British government's inappropriate approach towards the Iranian nation was conveyed to him," the official IRNA news agency reported. Two Romanians, convicted of a 2024 knife attack on an Iranian journalist outside his London home "on behalf of" Iran, were sentenced last week to 12 and eight years in prison respectively.
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Are We at War Again?
We look at the state of the conflict with Iran.
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Iran Asks UN to Hold US Accountable for AI-Enabled War Crimes
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations called on the UN to address the United States’ use of artificial intelligence in carrying out attacks against Iran, urging accountability for the deployment of AI in the commission of war crimes.
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Final Stage of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Weeklong Funeral Is Delayed
The Iranian authorities said the funeral procession in Mashhad for the former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would start late. Hours earlier, the United States and Iran traded strikes.
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Iran uses Khamenei funeral in Iraq to claim regional reach
The Islamic Republic sought to turn Ali Khamenei’s funeral ceremonies in Iraq into a regional show of loyalty, using processions in Najaf and Karbala to suggest that his authority reached beyond Iran even as Tehran’s allied network faces growing pressure.
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Mourners in Karbala Pay Tribute to Martyred Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei
KARBALA (Tasnim) – Iraq’s holy city of Karbala witnessed a massive funeral procession on Wednesday and Thursday morning as millions of mourners gathered to pay tribute to martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
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Explosions heard in Iran's Bushehr, says report
Explosions heard in Iran's Bushehr, says report Several explosions were heard in Iran's Bushehr province on Thursday morning, Iran's Mehr news reported. Bushehr is where Iran's nuclear power plant is located.
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Kuwait strongly condemns Iran's continued attacks
KUWAIT, 9th July, 2026 (WAM) -- Kuwait's Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its strongest condemnation of the continued Iranian attacks targeting the country's territory, the latest of which occurred Thursday morning.
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UN Envoy Urges Security Council Action over US Attacks on Iran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian UN ambassador called on the UN Security Council to take immediate action against continued US acts of aggression against Iran, warning that Washington’s military attacks threaten international peace and security.
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US strike reportedly hits bridge on China-Iran rail corridor also used by Russia
US strike reportedly hits bridge on China-Iran rail corridor also used by Russia Overnight US strikes hit the Aq Taqeh Khan railway bridge in northern Iran's Golestan province, a trade link to Tehran's strategic partners China and Russia, Fars news agency reported. Fars said the route that goes on to pass through Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan has been an important land link to China which gained further relevance during this year's blockade of Iran's Gulf ports by the US. It added that the route had also been used by Russia for cargo shipments to Iran since late 2025.
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The Syrian families giving abandoned children a home and a future
The Syrian families giving abandoned children a home and a future Submitted by Darcie Imbert on Thu, 07/09/2026 - 11:00 In reunified Syria, a new form of fostering has emerged to challenge social and religious stigmas In their living room, Farah is held by her mother and Nesme by her father (Darcie Imbert/MEE) Off Swedan, a case worker at the Syrian-owned organisation Child Houses , handed over his phone to show an image of a baby no more than a few hours old. The newborn had been abandoned by her family and found in a rubbish bin, her face bloodied by an animal scavenging for food. Cases of child abandonment are not rare in Syria .
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Crude may revisit early-2026 highs if tensions worsen, but Asian refiners better prepared this time: International Oil Analyst
By Nikhil Dedha Singapore, July 9 (ANI): Global crude oil prices could revisit the highs seen earlier this year if tensions between the United States and Iran continue to escalate, although Asian refiners are now better prepared to deal with supply disruptions than they were at the beginning of the conflict, June Goh, Senior Oil Market Analyst at Sparta Commodities, told ANI.
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Iran says US strikes on civilian infrastructure a 'gross war crime'
Iran says US strikes on civilian infrastructure a 'gross war crime' Iran's foreign ministry has denounced US strikes on the country, which it said targeted civilian infrastructure including railway bridges, as a "gross war crime". The ministry said it "condemns in the strongest terms the aggressive attacks by the US terrorist army on several points in the southern coastal provinces and two bridges in the eastern provinces on the railway route to the holy city of Mashhad" and called the US administration "evil and psychopathic".
