World Jan 23 Houthi rebels release crew of Galaxy Leader ship seized in Red Sea in November 2023 Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vehicle carrier seized in November 2023 at the start of their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war.
World Jan 23 Saudi crown prince says kingdom intends to invest $600 billion in U.S. over next 4 years On Monday after his inauguration, Trump talked about possibly heading to the kingdom again as his first foreign trip, like he did in 2017.
World Dec 22 2 U.S. Navy pilots shot down over Red Sea in apparent 'friendly fire' incident, CENTCOM says Both pilots were recovered alive after ejecting from their stricken aircraft, with one suffering minor injuries.
World Dec 06 Iran is poised to 'quite dramatically' increase stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium, IAEA chief says The successful rocket launch comes as Iran's nuclear program now enriches uranium at 60 percent, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90 percent.
World Nov 29 Iran will begin enriching uranium at two of its main nuclear facilities, UN watchdog says It remains unclear how President-elect Donald Trump will approach Iran once he enters office, particularly as it continues to threaten to attack Israel amid its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
World Nov 24 UAE announces 3 arrests after Israel says rabbi who went missing in the country was killed Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what it described as a “heinous antisemitic terror incident.”…
World Nov 03 An Iranian-American is being held in Iran, U.S. says, amid high tensions following Israeli strikes Reza Valizadeh, an Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster, is believed to have been detained by Iran for months now, authorities said Sunday, further raising the stakes as Tehran threatens to retaliate over an Israeli attack on…
World Nov 02 Iran's supreme leader threatens 'a crushing response' to Israel's retaliatory attack Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its Oct. 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and other locations and killed at least five people.
World Oct 27 Satellite images show damage from Israeli strikes at 2 secretive Iranian military bases An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran's onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program, satellite…
World Oct 25 Israel says it launched strikes on military targets in Iran after explosions heard near Tehran Saturday marked the first time Israel's military has openly attacked Iran, which hasn't faced a sustained barrage of fire from a foreign enemy since its 1980s war with Iraq.