Only 77 ships have so far crossed the Strait of Hormuz in March as the Mideast war disrupts one of the world’s most vital shipping routes, a maritime data firm reported Friday. Lloyd’s List Intelligence said most of these vessels...
Iranian authorities have arrested a man accused of leading a network that sold access to the internet via Starlink terminals, a technology that is banned in Iran, the ISNA news agency reported on Friday. Iran has been digitally sealed off from the...
An investigation led by a US general will take “as long as necessary” to determine the facts of a strike on an elementary school in Iran, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday. The investigation is conducted by a general...
A former employee of Britain’s MI5 domestic intelligence agency accused of leaking classified information to a foreign country had access to “everything” that MI5 staff could tap into, a London court heard Friday. Juan Joseph, 43...
The Israeli military said on Friday it had carried out around 7,600 strikes in Iran and 1,100 in Lebanon since launching its joint operation with the United States against Tehran. The military said that some 2,000 of the strikes had targeted...
The Strait of Hormuz is a “tactically complex environment,” top US military officer General Dan Caine said Friday, acknowledging the difficulty in acting on plans to escort traffic safely through the strategic waterway. “It’s...
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said France’s position in the Middle East war remained “purely defensive” despite an Iranian drone having killed a French soldier in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region...
The US will defend its ally Israel against accusations at the top United Nations court that it breached the Genocide Convention during its Gaza campaign, the court said on March 13. Washington filed a so-called “declaration of intervention” at the...
The surge in energy prices triggered by the conflict in the Middle East has significantly strengthened the dollar, paradoxically undermining US President Donald Trump’s economic objectives. AFP looks at the reasons behind the greenback’s...
President Donald Trump said Friday he feels honored to be killing Iran’s leadership, calling them “deranged scumbags.” “They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th...
Israeli planes dropping propaganda leaflets over Beirut on Friday caused a number of loud booms in the sky, terrifying residents of the Lebanese capital. AFP correspondents heard four successive booms at short intervals, before clouds of paper...
Oil prices stayed under $100 Friday with no end in sight to the disruption in supplies of crude, while stock markets slid lower. With the conflict heading towards its third week, equity markets fell further amid investor worries about an extended...
Brazil’s imprisoned, far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro was put into intensive care Friday to be treated for bronchopneumonia, his doctors said in a statement. Bolsonaro, sentenced to prison for trying to overturn the 2022 presidential...
US airport security officers missed their first full paycheck Friday as a partial funding shutdown of the government approached the one-month mark, with no breakthrough in a congressional standoff that is beginning to disrupt travel across the...
US President Donald Trump said in an interview aired Friday he suspected Russian leader Vladimir Putin was aiding Iran in the war against the United States and Israel. “I think he might be helping him a little bit, yeah, I guess. And he...
