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US Air Force personnel at the RAF Lakenheath base in Britain responded to “suspected unauthorised drone activity” on Friday evening, a US Air Force spokesperson said, adding that no personnel, aircraft or infrastructure were affected.
US President Donald Trump has extended by 90 days a waiver of a shipping law so that foreign-flagged ships can transport oil and other commodities between US ports, a White House official said on Friday.
Activists, joined by New York State Senator Jabari Brisport, gathered outside the World Trade Center on Thursday, protesting against the transportation of military-related materials through JFK International Airport (JFK).
Two oil tankers exploded and caught fire after striking sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said, according to Iranian state TV.
Yemen's Houthis said they attacked Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport and a pumping station on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, which carries crude oil to the Red Sea port of Yanbu.
Israeli forces and settlers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Turkey and Qatar have pledged a unified stance against any external armed attack on either country, according to a joint statement issued after they signed the defence agreement.
Necmettin Bilal Erdogan, the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has raised eyebrows in the Middle East by meeting with top Lebanese officials over the past two days.
The Lebanese army said on Friday it had raided an arms depot in Beirut's southern suburbs and arrested one person.
Saudi Arabia is “disintegrating”, US President Donald Trump said in an interview released on Friday, which is likely to offend the kingdom, as it suffers missile and drone strikes from Yemen’s Houthis.
Saudi Arabia is “disintegrating”, US President Donald Trump said in an interview released on Friday, which is likely to offend the kingdom, as it suffers missile and drone strikes from Yemen’s Houthis.
American activist Fergie Chambers told a Spanish court on Friday that he supported humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza because Israel's genocidal war in the Palestinian territory had become “the prevailing moral question of our time”.
The UN's human rights chief on Friday demanded the return of the body of a Yemeni staff member who died of unknown causes weeks ago, after more than two years in Houthi custody.
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, a leading progressive voice in the US Senate on the Middle East, has announced he will mount a leadership challenge to New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who has led the chamber's Democrats since 2017.
The Netherlands is not currently in active negotiations with the US over amendments to the Rome Statute or any response to the sanctions imposed on the International Criminal Court (ICC), a spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
Britain 's charity regulator has opened a compliance case into the Jewish Community Centre London (JW3) after it hosted an event which promoted medical clinics in illegal Israeli settlements, Middle East Eye can reveal.
France called for greater pressure on Yemen 's Houthis to end their attacks in the region, particularly against Saudi Arabia .
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the "opposition" Yashar party, have both been principal perpetrators of Israel's genocide of Gaza's Palestinians .
A baby has died of hypothermia in southern Gaza, amid plummeting temperatures and continuing Israeli restrictions on aid, AFP reported, citing medical sources.
Turkey and Qatar have signed a mutual defence agreement in Istanbul on Friday, in what is the latest military pact between Ankara and other Muslim states.