- — Iran, Oman agree on temporary joint corridor to restore Hormuz navigation
- Washington is reportedly delaying new strikes on Iran to pursue economic asphyxiation
- — SDF chief announces dissolution of US proxy, full integration into new Syrian army
- The Kurdish-led SDF has joined a military made up of factions that for years committed war crimes against Kurdish civilians
- — UK set to impose full trade ban with illegal Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank
- Israeli officials declared that the massive expansion of illegal Jewish settlements will 'erase the two-state delusion'
- — Iran inflicts unprecedented damage on CIA installations across West Asia: Report
- US media highlights that Washington’s intelligence agencies have not come under such attacks throughout all of CIA history
- — Trump sends Saudi nuclear deal to Congress, ties pact to Israel normalization
- Riyadh has publicly maintained that there will be no normalization with Israel until a pathway to an independent Palestinian state is established
- — US not expected to launch new attacks on Iran, set to focus on economic warfare: Report
- Tehran declared a suspension of its commitments under the MoU due to US violations, amid reports that Iranian forces are prepping to shift to a 'fully offensive posture'
- — Canada slaps retaliatory tariffs on $20bn worth of US imports
- Ottawa says the countermeasures match Washington's tariffs ‘dollar-for-dollar’
- — Iranian media denies reports of US proposal to lift blockade, sanctions
- Saudi media claimed Pakistan’s army chief reprimanded Iran’s national security head and accused both sides of failing to implement the MoU
- — Bangladesh weighs invitation to join Mecca defense pact
- Turkiye, which fields NATO's second-largest army, says the bloc remains 'open to new members'
- — China warns of retaliation to US economic warfare on Iran
- Washington is planning the 'toughest sanctions in history' against Iran and secondary measures against Tehran’s economic partners, including China
- — Iran’s costly road around Hormuz
- Iran’s answer to the blockade is taking shape far from the Persian Gulf, across unfinished railways, Caspian ports, and payment channels built to survive a longer siege.
- — Jordanian police arrest Drop Site correspondent for sedition over online post
- The Jordanian-American citizen is accused of 'undermining national security' for sharing an article urging Washington to cut aid to Amman
- — US officially removes Syrias extremist-led government from sponsors of terrorism list
- President Sharaa, a war criminal and former Al-Qaeda chief who served as deputy to an ISIS leader, said Syria is ‘tearing a page from its painful past’
- — Washington prepares to return diplomats to West Asia embassies: Report
- Only US embassies in Israel, Jordan, and Oman will operate at full capacity, while Gulf missions remain limited
- — Trump escalates Canada trade war as Ontario says ready to cut energy, critical minerals to US
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Trump is trying to destroy Canada's auto industry and move it south to the US
- — China rejects US economic warfare on Iran, vows to protect own interests
- A Chinese government spokesman warned that ‘sanctions lead to escalation,’ while Tehran says economic warfare will bring ‘further US defeat’
- — Trump-linked crypto firm wins preliminary approval to establish bank
- The US president has loosened regulations governing the issuance of new bank charters, allowing his family's World Liberty Financial to win early approval to establish a banking trust to back its stablecoin
- — The geopolitics of the Kurdish Opening
- Ankara's latest Kurdish peace bid carries ambitions far beyond the republic's borders.
- — Iran blacklists 45 vessels for violating Hormuz regulations
- Tehran’s new Strait Authority says vessels that breach its rules will face restrictions, including fines and detention for disregarding Iranian warnings
- — Israel kills three Palestinians in Gaza after kites cross border fence
- Defense Minister Katz ordered the military to 'act forcefully' against harmless kites floating across the border from Gaza
- — Iran vows to target source and origin of any aggression in warning to EU state
- The warning follows the deployment of US KC-135 refueling tankers to a base in Bulgaria, which departed the EU state over the weekend after Tehran protested the move
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