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MENA20 Aug
Israeli jets move into the central sector of southern Lebanon airspace overnight
MENA20 Aug
Israeli air activity over southern Lebanon and the Bekaa intensifies through the evening of 20 August 2026
MENA20 Aug
Trump turns the screws on Iran's trade partners, and Beijing calls the bluff
MENA20 Aug
Trump's Iran economic ultimatum meets a Beijing veto
MENA20 Aug
Four US-adjacent wire items landed within minutes on 20 August 2026; what the timing tells us is thinner than it looks
MENA20 Aug
Khamenei family joins political and religious figures at Mashhad shrine for fortieth-day commemoration
MENA20 Aug
Forty days in Mashhad: the rituals Tehran cannot afford to fumble
MENA20 Aug
Bessent: the bond market can finish what bombers started
MENA20 Aug
Bessent pitches a sanctions escalation against Tehran as economic isolation, but the legal text still has to land
MENA20 Aug
Hind Rajab's family rejects Israeli criminal probe, demands international inquiry
MENA20 Aug
Demolitions in south Lebanon: another notch in a slow escalation
MENA20 Aug
Tehran fires back on three tracks: Iran’s replies to Trump’s economic pressure line, hour by hour
MENA20 Aug
Trump declares "economic D-Day" on Iran, threatens third-party states with sanctions
MENA20 Aug
Trump widens the Iran sanctions net: a lifeline warning to third countries
MENA20 Aug
The 60-day clock ran out, and Hormuz is still pinched
MENA20 Aug
Trump declares 'Economic D-Day' on Iran as 60-day ceasefire expires without off-ramp
MENA19 Aug
Trump turns a rejected deal into an economic threat
MENA19 Aug
Open-source monitor attributes southern Lebanon blasts to two Israeli airstrikes on Ali al-Taher
MENA19 Aug
Australia summons Israeli ambassador over 'insulting' decision not to prosecute over Zomi Frankcom killing
MENA19 Aug
Gaza City strike on a police station kills six as aid trucks stall at the border
MENA19 Aug
Houthi military spokesman claims 14 operations across Yemen, vows escalation if siege holds
MENA19 Aug
A Gaza City strike, reported twice within minutes
MENA19 Aug
Six reported killed in Gaza a day after Kushner meets Netanyahu
MENA19 Aug
Iran's parliament speaker heads to Baghdad as Tehran and Iraq deepen a 'historical and unbreakable' alignment
MENA19 Aug
Tehran demands 'end to the war' as Trump insists no talks are scheduled
MENA18 Aug
Two children shot by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank, MEE liveblog reports
MENA18 Aug
Araghchi's Tell: Pezeshkian as Iran's Diplomatic Anchor Through the Air War
MENA18 Aug
Iran says US security umbrella cracked in '40-day war', pitches regional architecture
MENA18 Aug
Ghalibaf to Washington: 'stop waiting for the clown crew'
MENA18 Aug
Pentagon weighs smaller Gulf presence as US reviews 'vulnerabilities' exposed by Iran war
MENA18 Aug
Trump declares Strait of Hormuz "open" while Iran keeps it shut: a 90-minute messaging war
MENA18 Aug
No talks, 6% odds: Trump's Iran denial meets a market that isn't buying it
MENA18 Aug
Bulk carrier hit in Hormuz as Trump rules out talks with Tehran
MENA18 Aug
Pressure without an off-ramp
MENA18 Aug
Israeli forces shell Haddatha as combing operations reported nearby
MENA18 Aug
Qalibaf sequences Hormuz, Islamabad and martyrdom in a single ten-minute broadcast
MENA18 Aug
Iran ceasefire lapse puts bonds and crude on a 'fully offensive' footing
MENA18 Aug
Ghalibaf heads to Baghdad as Tehran works its Iraq file
MENA18 Aug
Iran oil exports near zero under renewed US naval blockade as UN calls for talks
MENA18 Aug
Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah sets US troop withdrawal as precondition for any Baghdad understanding
MENA17 Aug
Trump's 33% and Iran's 128% expose two brittle political economies
MENA17 Aug
Trump rules out Iran MOU extension as approval sinks to 33%
MENA17 Aug
Hormuz on a single day: three Iran-side lines, six hours apart, pointed at three audiences
MENA17 Aug
UAE's quiet stress test, Iran's loud ultimatum: the Gulf's two-sided August
MENA17 Aug
Trump tells Fox News US will 'bomb the shit out of' Oman if it blocks Iran path
MENA17 Aug
Two strike reports in two hours put the channel before the ceasefire
MENA17 Aug
Trump extends the clock on the US-Iran ceasefire, restates the nuclear red line
MENA17 Aug
Israeli armour moves into two south Lebanese towns as Beirut presses to extend UNIFIL mandate
MENA17 Aug
Tehran's two-track escalation: diplomats barred, oil jittery, yen on watch
MENA17 Aug
Tehran declares the 60-day clock void as oil gives back part of a strong week
MENA16 Aug
Erdogan calls for free passage through the Strait of Hormuz, urges an end to the war
MENA16 Aug
Trump orders Pentagon to scale back US-South Korea drills, calling exercises 'inappropriate and hostile' toward Pyongyang
MENA16 Aug
Erdogan frames Gaza as a duty, while Kushner opens a Hamas channel in Cairo
MENA16 Aug
Southern Lebanon bombardment logged across seven field posts on 16 August 2026
MENA16 Aug
Israeli artillery hits Wadi Al-Hujair as Israeli media report preparations for renewed Lebanon combat
MENA16 Aug
Tehran pairs a victory claim with an offensive-strategy question
MENA16 Aug
Hamas accuses Israel of sabotaging Gaza ceasefire as phase-one deal teeters
MENA16 Aug
Israeli army weighs return to Lebanon fighting as talks stall, Hebrew media say
MENA16 Aug
Israel weighs a return to days of fighting in Lebanon as Beirut hunts a hold on southern demolitions
MENA16 Aug
Two theatres on one reporting day: a Russian strike on Kremenchuk, Israeli flags at Naqoura
MENA16 Aug
Israeli flags on a Lebanese highway: a small fact on a slow-burning front
MENA16 Aug
Centcom chief boards USS Abraham Lincoln as carrier's blockade deployment draws crew-welfare scrutiny
MENA16 Aug
Iran's army chief bars US forces from the Strait of Hormuz and offers $30,000 for American soldiers
MENA16 Aug
Polymarket puts U.S. reconstruction aid to Iran at 21% as carrier visit draws Gulf disagreement
MENA16 Aug
Arab League slams Israeli strikes on Lebanon as Katz vows "no account" will go unsettled
MENA16 Aug
Hengli, the Iranian oil ledger, and two prediction markets pricing what comes next
MENA15 Aug
Lebanese field monitors and the mufti's office frame southern Lebanon strikes as civilian targeting
MENA15 Aug
Tehran's spokesman reaches for Dostoyevsky to denounce US diplomacy
MENA15 Aug
Seven killed in overnight Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, field channels report
MENA15 Aug
Deepest strike since the ceasefire: Israeli jets hit a house in southern Lebanon, killing seven
MENA15 Aug
Israeli jets over southern Lebanon in early hours of 15 August 2026
MENA15 Aug
Israeli jets return to Ali al-Taher hill four times in ninety minutes
MENA15 Aug
Israeli strikes hit Wadi Ansar and Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon
MENA15 Aug
Pre-dawn Israeli strikes hit Nabatieh and Ali al-Taher ridge, wfwitness logs forty-minute burst
MENA15 Aug
Israeli strikes batter south Lebanon overnight into 15 August, Ansar and Zahrani sector hit
MENA15 Aug
Israeli strikes concentrate on Ali al-Taher hill as jets return over southern Lebanon
MENA15 Aug
Israeli jets hit Ali al-Taher hill in renewed southern Lebanon air operations
MENA14 Aug
Israeli drone strike on south Lebanon hill, fresh ground movement near Aita al-Jabal reported within an hour
MENA14 Aug
Hormuz traffic falls as the US-Iran standoff tests a narrow agreement
MENA14 Aug
Israeli settlers seize West Bank spring as solidarity activists are blocked from reaching Qusra
MENA14 Aug
West Bank flashpoints converge: settler water seizure and IDF civilian-role transfer
MENA14 Aug
Cheaper gasoline, quieter Strait: Washington's new Iran frame
MENA14 Aug
Drones over Erbil: six Telegram posts in twelve minutes
MENA13 Aug
Kushner set to visit Israel next week for Gaza talks, Axios reports
MENA13 Aug
Tehran to Washington: the Hormuz narrative is shifting, and the drones are not incidental
MENA13 Aug
Fidan courts Egypt into the Mecca framework and warns of radical action on Gaza
MENA13 Aug
IDF says it killed a Hamas commander it links to the 7 October attack; Hamas confirms the death
MENA13 Aug
Fidan courts Egypt into the Mecca Alliance and pins Gaza stall on Israel
MENA13 Aug
Six years on, the Abraham Accords get a carrier escort and a fresh question about Tehran
MENA13 Aug
Israel's defense minister sets disarming Hezbollah as the precondition for a southern Lebanon withdrawal
MENA13 Aug
Israeli drone strike kills one near Khan Yunis Red Crescent site, local channels report
MENA13 Aug
Hormuz, two ways: Iran rejects Trump's 'total control' claim, escalating the war of words over the world's most consequential waterway
MENA13 Aug
Khan Yunis strike on Al-Amal: one reported killed as IDF operations grind on in southern Gaza
MENA13 Aug
Kfarchouba hit again as Israeli artillery pounds southern Lebanon; Moscow claims 362-drone overnight intercept
MENA13 Aug
Trump signals an 'imminent' Iran deal, but the public record stays thin
MENA13 Aug
Houthis lose their megaphone as X suspends spokesman Yahya Saree
MENA13 Aug
Iraq's Zaidi pairs airspace pledge with refusal to extend coalition deadline
MENA12 Aug
Washington draws a red line on Israeli permanence in southern Lebanon
MENA12 Aug
Explosions in Damascus and a harder Iranian posture converge on a single August afternoon
MENA12 Aug