Israel-Iran war

Two tense calls were made Monday as the president demanded Israel halt Beirut strikes; Netanyahu pushed back, the Wall Street Journal reports

Senate Republicans raise alarm as critics describe Pulte as a loyalist with no intelligence background, chosen over advisers' objections

The Kuwaiti Health Ministry said 63 people were wounded and one person was killed following an overnight Iranian attack. Kuwaiti Armed Forces intercepted 30 Iranian ballistic missiles and drones

IDF Staff Sgt. Adam Tzarfati, 20, from Rosh Haayin, was killed in southern Lebanon after a Hezbollah drone struck his unit overnight

"I had a very good call with Hezbollah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel"

According to CNN, Tehran has reportedly reopened most access points to 18 underground missile facilities that were struck by Israel and the United States.

A suspected vehicle-ramming attack near Hebron left two pedestrians injured after a driver accelerated toward a traffic circle adjacent to an IDF position and struck several people

IDF forces raise the Israeli and Golani flags on Beaufort Castle in Lebanon as forces reach the Beaufort Ridge for the first time in 26 years, since Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon

"The IDF is preparing for the possibility of fire from Lebanon following the advancement of IDF operations in southern Lebanon"

Iran’s foreign ministry said talks were continuing but denied that any final agreement had been reached, adding Tehran was “focused on ending the war” and was not negotiating over the nuclear issue

State Department and Treasury act in coordination to choke off IRGC funding streams

Trump’s remarks on MoU details are ‘a mixture of truth and falsehood’ and an attempt to ‘portray a fabricated victory,’ Iranian media reports

American military analysts also detected activity at some of Iran’s surface-to-air missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz that threatened land- and carrier-based attack planes

The US president "mandatorily" asks Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan to normalize ties with Israel, but Islamabad rebuffs the demand, and other nations stay silent

Iran’s Foreign Ministry accuses the US of violating the ceasefire after CENTCOM strikes, rejecting Washington’s claim of self-defense

Abbas Akbari Feyzabadi was convicted of "enmity against God," with the supreme court upholding his sentence before the execution

US intelligence indicates Supreme Leader Khamenei is sealed off with little access to the outside world, with Iranian negotiators struggling to communicate within their own government, slowing talks

Israeli forces have killed more than 600 Hezbollah operatives in recent weeks and warning that the military will “press the pedal even harder"

Senior GOP senators and former officials warn that the reported terms, which would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and ease pressure on Tehran, amount to a repeat of the Obama-era nuclear deal

Trump: Iran deal is not fully negotiated yet, any agreement signed will be ‘a good one,’ critics are ‘losers’ who ‘know nothing about it’

A source familiar with the matter admits the negotiations are being conducted under a very high level of secrecy, and Israel is not being updated around the clock

Report: Trump had become increasingly frustrated with the talks in recent days with his position shifting over the course of the week from favoring diplomacy toward considering military action

"I have a thing called Iran and other things," Trump said in the way of explanation for why he would miss his son's wedding

Despite denying it is operating as an independent mediator from Pakistan, a Qatari negotiating team arrived in ​Tehran on Friday ‌in coordination with U.S. to help secure ​a deal to ​end the war