Strait of Hormuz on 17 April 2026 Strait of Hormuz 18 April 2026 The two images above show the Strait of Hormuz when it was partially opened and now, when it is closed. For a brief moment on Friday, 17...
Iran's top negotiator said recent talks with the US had made progress but gaps remained over nuclear issues and the Strait of Hormuz, while President Donald Trump cited "very good conversations" with Tehran despite warning against "blackmail" over...
By: Majid Maqbool - - - - Alex Vatanka is a leading expert on Iranian politics and US-Iran relations. Vatanka is a Senior Fellow and founding Director of the Iran Program at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. Born...
Egypt's Talaat Moustafa Group (TMG) will build a new 1.4 trillion Egyptian pound ($27 billion) mixed-use city east of Cairo, CEO and Managing Director Hisham Talaat Moustafa said at a press conference on Saturday. The project, called The Spine,...
Britain's Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy signalled his support for Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday over the ongoing row about the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. Labour veteran Mandelson was appointed as...
Israeli forces on Saturday carried out demolitions in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil , the scene of intense fighting with Hezbollah prior to the recently agreed 10-day truce, Lebanese state media reported. "The Israeli enemy is repeating its...
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on Saturday that the ongoing 10-day truce with Israel cannot be one-sided, vowing that his fighters would respond to Israeli attacks on Lebanon. "A ceasefire means a complete cessation of all hostilities. Because we do...
A French soldier was killed and three others wounded in an ambush Saturday on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon that French President Emmanuel Macron blamed on Hezbollah, an accusation the group has denied. The attack follows an agreement between...
UAE side Shabab Al Ahli advanced to the Asian Champions League semi-finals by defeating Thailand's Buriram United 3-2 after extra time in Jeddah on Saturday. Runners-up in 2015, Shabab Al Ahli set up a last-four clash with Japan's Machida...
Two civilian contractors delivering water for the UN children's fund were shot dead by Israeli troops in northern Gaza , UNICEF said on Saturday, expressing fury over the deaths the previous day. "UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two...
Iran's state-run Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs said on Saturday that the war with the United States and Israel had killed more than 3,400 people in the Islamic republic. The announcement comes in the midst of a two-week...
Iranian commander Esmail Qaani arrived in Baghdad on Saturday to meet political leaders and representatives of armed factions and to discuss the Middle East war and its impact on Iraq, a senior Iraqi official told AFP...
18 April 2026 On April 16, the Trump administration forced the Israeli military to cease its attacks on Lebanon as part of an agreement with Iran to fully open the Strait of Hormuz. This marked another victory for the Axis...
The ceasefire between the US and Iran has largely held since April 8, and large-scale Iranian barrages targeting predominantly Arab states have ended. However, some attacks, particularly against Iraqi Kurdistan, have continued. The post Iran’s war against regional states: UAE...
La quarta visita di Pedro Sánchez in Cina in quattro anni non è soltanto un gesto bilaterale di cortesia diplomatica. È il segnale di una linea politica sempre più riconoscibile: la Spagna cerca margini di autonomia strategica, valorizza il rapporto...
Lebanon's president and prime minister discussed on Saturday preparations for the first direct negotiations with Israel in decades, as southerners headed home after the ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war. In a statement, the office of President Joseph Aoun...
The ceasefire between the US and Iran is in grave peril after Iran announced on Saturday that, in response to the continued US blockade, it would once again impose travel restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz after briefly reopening it...
The Iran-linked front organization Ashab al Yamin claimed eight attacks on what it describes as “American and Zionist interests” in European countries in April. The most recent statements by the group took responsibility for targeting multiple locations in London, including...
It is the people of the Global South, not governments, who must resist this subversion of the concepts of the ‘nation’ and of non-alignment. Prabhat Patnaik is Professor Emeritus, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The...
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has been urged to intervene in a dispute between pro-Palestinian groups and police over a planned march for Nakba Day , after officers refused to approve the route while permitting a...
Several ships came under Iranian fire in the Gulf on Saturday shortly after Tehran reversed its pledge to re-open the Strait of Hormuz . Iran’s military re-imposed restrictions in the strategic waterway in protest at the US blockade...
Following the same tactics deployed in war-battered Gaza , the Israeli army has established a so-called Yellow Line in south Lebanon , where it has started destroying villages and homes, despite a 10-day truce in place. Israeli Army...
If one looks at the facts, one cannot help but suspect that the war in Iran will not only become the greatest military fiasco in the short history of the US, but will also knock the US off its throne...
A major cultural association in Rome is facing mounting criticism from Palestinian and Lebanese activists over its decision to screen an Israeli film at a fundraising event for Lebanon . ARCI Roma is a large left-wing social and cultural association...
A French soldier was killed and three others wounded while clearing a road in southern Lebanon in an attack that UNIFIL peacekeepers and French officials said on Saturday was likely carried out by Iran-backed Hezbollah. In calls...
Dozens of Syrians gathered the Yusuf Al-Azmeh Square in the capital Damascus on Friday for a protest under the slogan "Law and Dignity", calling for economic and political reforms amid worsening living conditions and rising costs. In...
Não é novidade: os Estados Unidos iniciaram a guerra contra o Irão porque Israel iria começá-la de qualquer maneira. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Não é novidade: os Estados Unidos iniciaram...
GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army continued on Saturday to commit ceasefire violations in the Gaza Strip for the 191st consecutive day, while maintaining its tight siege on more than two million Palestinians. According to media sources, the Israeli artillery shelled areas...
Conflicting reports have emerged over the timing of a potential new round of US-Iran talks , with officials offering contradictory signals on when negotiations could begin despite indications that discussions are advancing. CNN reported, citing Iranian officials...
Turkey's long-term contract for importing natural gas from Iran is due to expire in the coming months, and the two countries could hold talks on a possible extension, though no negotiations are under way yet, Turkey's energy...
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man on Saturday morning southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron , amid widespread raids and attacks on other towns and cities. Security and local sources reported that Israeli forces shot and...
China could help resolve the dispute over Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium as part of a potential deal to end the war , a diplomat familiar with the matter has told The Associated Press . The Trump administration...
LEBANON, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army announced on Saturday that it established a “yellow line” in southern Lebanon, similar to the line it had set up in the Gaza Strip, claiming it targeted gunmen who attempted to approach its forces along...
Pakistan's powerful military chief and prime minister on Saturday concluded separate visits aimed at ending the US-Israeli war on Iran , with Field Marshal Asim Munir leaving Tehran and premier Shehbaz Sharif headed home from Turkey. Munir met...
The United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Friday it was "outraged" after two truck drivers it contracted to deliver c lean water to families in the Gaza Strip were killed by Israeli fire. The UN agency said...
US President Donald Trump has threatened to resume military strikes against Iran if a long-term agreement is not reached by next week, even as he pointed to unspecified "good news" in ongoing negotiations and said a deal...
By Karen KWIATKOWSKI Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK! ”~ DJT, April 8, 2026. The...
The United States, once a model of international diplomacy, has lost its former position, becoming an instrument of subversion through NGOs and the CIA, and its diplomatic corps has been replaced by loyal globalists who despise both their own country...
GAZA, (PIC) In a scene where grief met hope, dozens of kites soared above the beach in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Thursday, carrying the names of children who lost their families during the war in a symbolic attempt...
GAZA, (PIC) With a weakened body and an amputated leg, former Palestinian detainee Jibril al-Safadi recounts a harrowing experience inside Israeli prisons, one that did not end with his release, but extended into the loss of his son during the war...
The conflict over the Strait of Hormuz continued on Saturday after Iran’s military said it would resume “strict management” of the waterway in response to the US blockade on Iranian ports, effectively closing it. Previously, on Friday,...
By Ted SNIDER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Negotiations have suffered from an acute lack of trust. The diplomatic process to end the war on Iran is not buried yet. President Donald Trump,...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked the Wadi Abul-Hayat Bedouin community west of the al-Auja area, north of Jericho, and stormed other parts of the occupied West Bank on Saturday. Al-Baidar Human Rights Organization reported that a number...
GAZA, (PIC) Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that Gaza’s healthcare system remains in a “suffocating” state, with around 60 percent of cases treated in its facilities over the past six months involving direct trauma injuries. Shaima Ouda, a mental health awareness...
By 4 am on Friday morning, Zahraa Hallal's family was already packed and driving south from their cramped Hamra apartment to find what remained of themselves in the village of Habboush, in the Nabatieh district. The road that normally took an...
A Tufts University graduate who was arrested by US immigration agents last year as part of the targeting by President Donald Trump's administration of pro-Palestinian campus activists has returned to her home in Turkey following a...
At least one person was killed and several others were wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon on Saturday despite a US-brokered truce which was agreed on 16 April. The 10-day truce came into effect at midnight on Friday, however,...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,549 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
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