A bulk cargo ship sits at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Saturday, May 2, 2026. Amirhosein Khorgooi/AP/ISNA hide caption toggle caption Amirhosein Khorgooi/AP/ISNA DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Iran war risked reigniting after the U.S. tried to force open the Strait of Hormuz for commercial shipping, though a ceasefire…
A U.S. military-run body near Gaza that critics say failed in its mission to monitor the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and boost aid flows to besieged Palestinians is set to be shut by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The closing of the Civil-Military Coordination Center in Israel would mark the latest blow…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth controversially claimed on Thursday that the fragile ceasefire with Iran means that President Donald Trump does not yet have to seek congressional consent to extend the war. Hegseth argued that the pause in hostilities freezes the ticking clock that would otherwise require the president either to get agreement from lawmakers or…
In a lengthy phone call on Wednesday, President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia agreed that there should be a brief cease-fire in Ukraine in the coming days, according to both Mr. Trump and a top adviser to Mr. Putin. The cease-fire would coincide with the May 9 Russian holiday marking the end…
Israel and Hezbollah are still fighting in Lebanon despite a US-brokered ceasefire deal that took effect on 17 April, pausing six weeks of full-scale war. The agreement allows Israel to “take all necessary measures in self-defence, at any time, against planned, imminent, or ongoing attacks”. It was not Hezbollah which signed the ceasefire deal with…
The strikes were the first since the two agreed to halt the violence at peace talks last month. Published On 27 Apr 202627 Apr 2026 Pakistan and Afghanistan have accused one another of launching new cross-border attacks. Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said on Monday that four people were killed in attacks in the eastern Kunar province….
Washington (AP) — President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group by three weeks after talks at the White House on Thursday. Trump said the meeting between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the United States, the second in the past week, went…
President Trump announced a three-week extension of a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon that had been set to expire in a few days, after hosting a meeting between Israeli and Lebanese diplomats at the White House on Thursday. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group that has been attacking Israel from southern Lebanon, did not have representatives…
President Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the Navy, John Phelan: a new class of battleships. “They’ll be the fastest, the biggest and by far — 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Mr. Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate and resort in…
ISLAMABAD (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States was indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran — a day before it was to expire — as a new round of peace talks was on hold. The announcement appeared to ease fears that the fighting, which had shaken energy markets and the global economy,…
