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Iran's Supreme National Security Council says the Strait of Hormuz will not fully reopen until the US lifts its naval blockade, ends sanctions, withdraws regional forces, and pays compensation for war damage — a six-point list issued...
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Yemen's Houthi movement claimed a drone strike on Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery on Sunday, August 9, 2026; Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry confirmed a fire broke out and was extinguished with no injuries, but did not confirm the...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that Israel "rejects the 15-point document," ruling out any Israel Defense Forces withdrawal from Gaza until Hamas is, in his words, "genuinely disarmed."
The roadmap, unveiled by...
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Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement on August 7, 2026, in Mecca, committing that an armed attack on any one signatory will be treated as an attack on all three.
The pact...
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Spain's Interior Ministry says roughly 40,000–60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Ceuta enclave within 24 hours, the largest single-day influx since the 2021 border incident; officials confirmed at least 18 deaths, with some reports putting the...
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Hamas has, for the first time, accepted a written disarmament framework. After months of stalled talks in Cairo and a final round in El-Alamein, Egypt, Hamas signed a 15-point roadmap on July 30, 2026, agreeing in principle...
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US and Saudi fighter jets struck Iran-aligned militia sites across eastern Iraq on July 28–29, a joint operation CENTCOM said followed more than 30 IRGC-directed drone attacks on US forces and Saudi energy infrastructure in the preceding...
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Ukraine confirmed long-range strikes on July 25–26, 2026 against vessels in the Caspian Sea allegedly used to move military cargo between Russia and Iran, plus a Russian warship, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine's SBU security...
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President Trump paused a 13-consecutive-night US bombing campaign against Iran on Friday, July 25, and Tehran reciprocated by halting retaliatory strikes on US bases and Gulf shipping, according to a Defense Department source cited by CNN.
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Nearly five months into the disruption of the world's single most important energy corridor, oil markets have stopped treating the Strait of Hormuz crisis as a temporary scare and started pricing it as a structural feature of the market....
