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What to know about the deal between Israel and Lebanon extending their shaky ceasefire

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to renew their shaky ceasefire, aiming for comprehensive peace talks later this month. The U.S.

 

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Strait of Hormuz closure chokes trade and aid for Afghanistan

Landlocked Afghanistan is struggling to access supplies as fighting with Pakistan and the Iran war disrupt key routes.

 

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UN gravely concerned by an Afghan Taliban law that has provisions on child marriage

The United Nations has criticized a new Afghan law on separation in marriage, saying it entrenches discrimination against women and girls.

 

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Board of Peace will ask the UN Security Council to press Hamas to disarm

The body overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza plans to ask the United Nations Security Council to press Hamas to disarm.

 

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Company says it’s not clear when its hantavirus-hit ship will start cruises again

Oceanwide Expeditions says it expects to know by the end of the week if the MV Hondius cruise ship will keep to its schedule after a hantavirus outbreak.

 

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WHO head seeks to reassure residents of Spanish island where hantavirus-stricken ship is headed

The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.

 

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China’s top envoy meets with Iran’s in Beijing as Trump pauses US effort in the Strait

President Donald Trump says he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz to allow time for a deal to end the Iran war, but that the American forces’ blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place.

 

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Israeli forces intercept Gaza aid flotilla and plans to drop off activists in Greece

Activists attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza say Israeli forces have intercepted their flotilla near the southern Greek island of Crete.

 

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89-year-old man arrested for allegedly wounding at least 4 people with a shotgun in Greek capital

Greek authorities say several people have been wounded after a gunman opened fire at a social security office and at a courthouse in central Athens.

 

Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz if US lifts its blockade and the war ends, officials say

Iran has offered to end its control over the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade and ends the war. That’s according to regional officials.

 

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Afghanistan calls on Afghans who helped US in war and are now stuck in Qatar to return home

Afghanistan’s foreign ministry says Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort and are stuck in Qatar can safely return home.

 

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Even the dead must make way as construction transforms Afghanistan’s capital

Across Afghanistan’s capital, buildings are being razed to make way for major construction to modernize Kabul’s heavily congested streets.

 

Iran reopens Strait of Hormuz, but threatens to close it again as the US maintains its blockade

Iran says it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels. But questions lingered Saturday about how much freedom ships actually had to transit the waterway as Tehran maintained its grip on who got through and threatened to close it again if the U.S. kept in place its blockade of Irania

 

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A 10-day ceasefire agreed on by Israel and Lebanon goes into effect

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started.

 

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Afghanistan’s capital is in the grip of a water crisis

Nestled in a high-altitude valley in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountain range, Kabul is rapidly running out of water.

 

Netanyahu authorizes direct talks with Lebanon in potential boost to ceasefire efforts

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors.

 

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Afghanistan says peace talks held in China to end fighting with Pakistan have been constructive

Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry says peace talks held in China between Afghanistan and Pakistan to halt cross-border fighting between the two neighbors have been constructive.

 

Death toll from Afghan quake rises, including 8 members of refugee family returned from Iran

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, killing at least eight members of a refugee family near Kabul.

 

5.8 magnitude quake hits Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing 8 in Afghanistan

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 has rattled parts of northern and eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan.

 

AP Exclusive: Pakistan and Afghan Taliban officials meet in China for ceasefire talks

Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban governments have resumed talks in China, which is mediating between the two sides to broker a durable ceasefire after weeks of fighting.

 

Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of shelling outskirts of eastern city, killing and wounding civilians

Afghanistan’s government has accused Pakistan’s military of shelling the outskirts of an eastern Afghan city.

 

Afghanistan releases American national Dennis Coyle held for more than a year

Afghanistan’s Taliban government says that authorities have released American academic Dennis Coyle, held in Afghanistan since January 2025.

 

Trump says Iran is eager for a deal to end the war as he extends deadline to allow for diplomacy

U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. is talking with an Iranian leader and claims the Islamic Republic is eager for a deal to end the war.

 

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A look at who holds the reins of power in Iran since the country’s top leaders were killed

Israel has killed several top Iranian officials since the United States and Israel began strikes against Iran.

 

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Greece launches an animal airlift to evacuate pets and their owners from the Mideast

Dozens of dogs and cats have arrived in Athens with their owners aboard a special evacuation flight for Greeks with pets who were trapped by the current war in the Middle East.

 

Afghanistan says more than 400 dead in Pakistan airstrike on Kabul hospital

Rescue crews are digging bodies from the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul. Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said an overnight Pakistani airstrike killed at least 400 people, marking a dramatic escalation of a conflict between the two neighbors now in its third week.

 

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Afghanistan says 400 people killed in Pakistan strike on Kabul hospital

Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of targeting a drug rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital with an airstrike.

 

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Trump says he wants to be involved in picking Iran’s next leader as war ripples across the region

U.S. President Donald Trump says he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader. The U.S. and Israel have been hammering the country for a sixth day Thursday.

 

Iran launches missiles at Israel and US bases as Israeli military begins new strikes in Lebanon

Iran is launching more missiles at Israel as attacks in the Middle East commence for a sixth day. Israel announced multiple incoming attacks early Thursday and said it was moving to intercept the missiles.

 

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From Karachi to Beirut, Khamenei’s death sends shockwaves across the Shiite world

The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes has sparked anger across Shiite communities worldwide and is raising fears of wider unrest.

 

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