Foreign minister wants ‘conversation’ about closing UK military sites following lack of warning of impending attack on RAF Akrotiri [RAF Akrotiri was struck by a drone believed to have been launched by Hezbollah last Sunday. Although no one was injured the Cypriot government was angered that citizens near the base were not warned about the attack. | Photo Credit: Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters] Cyprus’s foreign minister has said there are “questions” about the future of the UK’s

[Smoke rising from the southern Lebanese village of Odaisseh near the border with Israel | Photo Credit: AFP via Getty Images] Beside Israel's northern border fence, the bursts of machine-gun fire from inside Lebanon are loud and long, as new Israeli forces push in to take strategic positions near the border. The regular rumble of air strikes echoes over the shattered remains of Shia villages, destroyed during Israel's last ground war there in 2024. A senior military official

At heart, to impose unconditional surrender on Hezbollah and uproot the party among its coreligionists. Source: Getty Israel is repeating parts of the military playbook it used against Hezbollah in 2024, but its strategy is different this time. It was evident, even before Hezbollah fired a handful of rockets toward Haifa in northern Israel in the early hours of March 1, that the Israeli political leadership and military command had been looking for a reason to resume the war

War With Iran Won’t Reshape the Region the Way America Wants After a strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran, March 2026 Majid Asgaripour / West Asia News Agency / Reuters Eager to show that he can do what no American leader has done before, President Donald Trump has chosen conflict over diplomacy and gone to war with Iran. The Islamic Republic, knowing that this fight is existential, retaliated quickly with deadly missile and drone attacks on Israel, U.S. bases in the Mi

The Lebanese should have the awareness that Israel has expansionist plans for their country (File/AFP) Unconfirmed news has been spreading in Lebanon that Tel Aviv asked the Lebanese government to disband Hezbollah and designate it as a terrorist organization — both its political and military wings — after the group on Monday launched missiles into Israel. It threatened to target key facilities and infrastructure if Lebanon refused. The government rushed to ban the group’s m

The Feb. 28 school strike in Minab, which killed dozens, including children, appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said U.S. forces were operating. [Source: The New York Times] The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the United States and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility. But a bo

French sources told the Post that a ground operation in Lebanon would undermine the Lebanese government’s legitimacy to act against Hezbollah. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron hold a joint press conference, amid the Israeli-Hamas conflict, in Jerusalem, October 24, 2023. | Photo Credit: Christophe Ena/Pool via Reuters] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on Wednesday evening, for the first

Satellite imagery analysis reveals multiple strikes and burn marks around a school in southern Iran, suggesting it was hit more than once, in an attack Iranian authorities say killed 168 people on Saturday.

[ The aftermath of an airstrike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school. | Photograph Source: Tasnim News Agency – CC BY 4.0 ] Last Friday, the mediator of the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiations in Oman, that country’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi, pulled the rug out from President Trump’s deceptive pretense, threatening war with Iran because it had refused his demands that it give up what he claimed was its drive to build its own atom bomb. The Omani foreign minister explained on

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doubled down on his refusal to become involved in the Iran conflict and rebuked U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off trade with Spain as a form of punishment. “The position of the Government of Spain can be summed up in three words,” said Sánchez in a televised address Wednesday morning. “No to war.” Sánchez argued Europe has been in a similar situation before, referring to the negative impact of the Iraq war. “We must not repe