Oil prices surge as US-Iran strikes intensify in Strait of Hormuz
Oil prices spike to six-week highs as US-Iran strikes disrupt traffic in the crucial Strait of Hormuz.
Iran War News
Military and conflict reporting on Iran — strikes, escalation with Israel and the United States, proxy forces across the region, and defence developments — collected from independent English-language outlets.
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Israel’s removal of Gaza rubble risk to war crimes evidence: UN
International Court of Justice ordered Israel in 2024 to prevent the destruction of evidence related to war crimes.
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Yemen fighting escalates as forces battle for Bab al-Mandeb Strait
Fighting is intensifying in Yemen as government-aligned forces launch counterattacks against the Iran-backed Houthis.
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Board of Peace's Mladenov says Gaza, West Bank escalation makes two-state solution 'impossible'
Board of Peace's Mladenov says Gaza, West Bank escalation makes two-state solution 'impossible' A top official within the US-backed Board of Peace on Monday said a failure to move forward in Gaza paired with rising violence in the occupied West Bank were making a two-state solution "impossible". Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the US-backed "Board of Peace" tasked with implementing an October ceasefire plan, was speaking at the Hili Forum in Abu Dhabi. "I would say that if Gaza continues the way it is now, or does not move into implementing...
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Israeli attacks kill one, injure 10 in southern Lebanon
Israeli attacks kill one, injure 10 in southern Lebanon Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have killed one person and injured 10 others, according to the state-run National News Agency, citing the country’s health ministry. One person was killed in the village of Ar-Rihan, in Jezzine district, while nine people, including two children and three women, were injured in the al-Maslakh neighbourhood of Nabatieh city, the ministry’s emergency operations centre said. Another person was injured in Nabatieh al-Fawqa.
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Syria’s Assad-era reactor configured for nuclear weapons: IAEA
UN watchdog says material from facility, bombed in 2007, now under IAEA safeguards.
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Yemen's Houthis accuse Saudi Arabia of air raids, missile strikes
Yemen's Houthis accuse Saudi Arabia of air raids, missile strikes Yemen's Houthis on Monday accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out air strikes around the country, including the deadly bombardment of a prison, as the group presses on in an offensive to seize territory near the Bab el-Mandab Strait. Houthi media said the attacks targeted Houthi positions across the Arabian Peninsula's poorest country, which is divided between areas held by the Iran-backed Houthis and those controlled by the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government. Saba news agency, which is affiliated with the Houthi movement, reported that seven people were killed by Saudi air strikes on the prison in Al-Hazm in the north of Yemen, including one child visiting the facility.
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The domestic armed threat facing Iran
External support for ethnic armed groups poses an escalating security threat to Iran, experts and state officials warn.
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Palestinian child killed by Israel on first day back at school in Gaza
Palestinian child killed by Israel on first day back at school in Gaza Submitted by MEE staff on Mon, 09/07/2026 - 18:07 Wafaa Akila, aged eight, was photographed smiling in her blue school uniform hours before an Israeli strike killed the little girl and her father Images of eight-year-old Palestinian girl Wafaa Akila are circulating on social media after an Israeli strike killed her alongside her father in Gaza City on Sunday (Social media/X) Off An eight-year-old Palestinian girl, whose age was confirmed by al-Shifa hospital, was killed alongside her father in an Israeli strike on Gaza City on Sunday, hours after she attended the first day of the new school year. Wafaa Yousef Nabil Akila and her father, Youssef Nabil Rabah Akila, were travelling in a vehicle in western Gaza City when an Israeli drone near the Hamid intersection struck the car. The attack also wounded six other Palestinians, according to medical officials at al-Shifa hospital.
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Thousands attend funeral of war criminal Ratko Mladic in Serbia
Thousands attend funeral of war criminal Ratko Mladic in Serbia
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Report: US official says Hormuz fully open, under US control
Report: US official says Hormuz fully open, under US control The Strait of Hormuz is fully open and under US Navy control, a US official told Al Jazeera. The official said the assessment follows a covert US Navy mine-clearing operation in the Strait since April, adding that shipping traffic is expected to increase as a result. The US remains satisfied with current oil and gas flows through the strait, the official said.
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Gaza: Genocide in Real Time?
B'Tselem Executive Directo
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Kosovo signs up to US-led Gaza stabilisation force
Balkan state joins short list of countries agreeing to send peacekeepers to Palestinian enclave.
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Claimed Israeli capture of Lebanese ridge reshapes negotiation dynamics
Israel's continued strikes challenge Lebanon's push for an elusive peace agreement and stability.
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Germany asks ICJ to dismiss Gaza genocide case brought by Nicaragua
Germany asks ICJ to dismiss Gaza genocide case brought by Nicaragua Germany asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday to dismiss a case accusing it of facilitating genocide in Gaza through its military support for Israel . Berlin told the UN's supreme judicial body that Nicaragua had failed to establish the existence of a legal dispute before bringing proceedings in March 2024 and that parts of the case fell outside the court’s jurisdiction. "Nicaragua’s conduct indicates that it was not interested in hearing Germany’s view on its allegations, but simply in bringing Germany before this court," Julia Monar, legal adviser at the German foreign ministry, told judges.
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Convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic gets hero’s burial in Serbia
Thousands attend Belgrade funeral of former Bosnian Serb army general convicted of orchestrating Srebrenica genocide.
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Germany asks ICJ to dismiss Gaza genocide case brought by Nicaragua
Germany asks ICJ to dismiss Gaza genocide case brought by Nicaragua Submitted by Sondos Asem on Mon, 09/07/2026 - 12:56 Berlin argues that UN court lacks jurisdiction over allegations that it enabled Israeli violations of international law in Gaza Germany's legal representative speaks during Monday's session at the ICJ in The Hague, 7 September 2026 (ICJ website) Off Germany asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday to dismiss a case accusing it of facilitating genocide in Gaza through its military support for Israel . Berlin told the UN's supreme judicial body that Nicaragua had failed to establish the existence of a legal dispute before bringing proceedings in March 2024 and that parts of the case fell outside the court’s jurisdiction. "Nicaragua’s conduct indicates that it was not interested in hearing Germany’s view on its allegations, but simply in bringing Germany before this court," Julia Monar, legal adviser at the German foreign ministry, told judges.
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How the media manufactured consent for genocide
A new book uncovers the role the media played in whitewashing Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
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The UAE, like the US and Israel, is normalising a permanent state of war
The UAE, like the US and Israel, is normalising a permanent state of war Submitted by David Hearst on Mon, 09/07/2026 - 08:19 Mohammed bin Zayed should read history to learn that soft power will win over hard power every time, especially in today’s world – where legitimacy is key UAE's President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the airport in Abu Dhabi on 12 August 2026 (AFP) On It took the Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 full months after his invasion of Ukraine to call what his country was engaged in a war . Even then, the word could only be used by him. Anyone else could get up to 15 years in prison for "disseminating false information".
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Iran warns S. Korea against military involvement in Hormuz Strait
TEHRAN, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei on Monday warned South Korea against maintaining a military presence or participating in operations in the Strait of Hormuz. Baghaei issued the warning in a post on X after Seoul said Friday that it was reviewing options, including military measures, to support "freedom of navigation" in the Strait of Hormuz.
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