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Leaders urge for restraint as 10-day Israel-Lebanon ceasefire takes effect

US President Donald Trump. (Photo by ibrahim AMRO / AFP via Getty Images) /](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5255x3503+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F40%2Fb7%2Ff7642c6c42a888e0c8a55c384dff%2Fgettyimages-2271123710.jpg) A supporter of Hezbollah holds a machine gun while celebrating the ceasefire with Israel as it takes effect

Trump’s May 1 deadline: Can he continue war on Iran after that?

conflict overseas. Under the resolution, the president must inform Congress within 48 hours of initiating military action and may sustain deployments for only 60 days, unless a single 30-day extension is granted by Congress

Down but not out: In war with Israel, Hezbollah shows it is still powerful

Strait of Hormuz. ## Hezbollah still strong Following the November 2024 “ceasefire”, Israel continued to periodically attack Lebanon, at a lower intensity, for the next 15 months, killing hundreds of people. Hezbollah avoided responding until March

Peace talks in doubt as U.S. seizes Iranian ship

Strait of Hormuz as part of Washington's blockade on Iranian vessels in the vital waterway, and just two days before the ceasefire is set to expire. [A video](https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2046085543348293851?s=20) released

Middle East crisis live: UN chief calls for Israel-Lebanon ceasefire to be ‘fully’ respected as it comes into effect

conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 2,100 Lebanese people and displaced more than 2.1 million.** The agreement was announced earlier by Donald Trump, who said he had spoken with Israeli

After 60 days of war in Iran, does US Congress want a say?

conflict on the record. Regardless of whether or not Congress acts, the 60-day mark will be inflection point, after which, many constitutional experts argue, the war will enter a blatantly illegal phase under

Timeline: The highs and lows of the US-UK ‘special relationship’

Strait of Hormuz. Days after the war began – and after Starmer initially refused to allow US forces to use UK military bases for strikes on Iran – Trump described the British leader as “not Winston Churchill

Can Pakistan secure Iran-US nuclear compromise, as Trump says deal ‘close’?

conflict stemmed from a “miscalculation” by adversaries about Iran’s public support and military strength. He added that Iran’s forces remain ready for “comprehensive defence”. Durrani dismissed suggestions of internal divisions

U.S. attempt to open Strait of Hormuz tests fragile Iran war ceasefire

US of ceasefire violation Iran has said the new U.S. effort is a violation of the fragile ceasefire that has held for more than three weeks. In a post on X Tuesday, Iran's powerful

Strait of Hormuz blockade and other major naval sieges in modern times

Strait of [Hormuz](/news/2026/4/24/trumps-may-1-deadline-can-he-continue-war-on-iran-after-that), a narrow waterway once carrying roughly a fifth of the world’s oil and gas, remains effectively closed after the United States and Iran imposed competing [blockades](/news/2026/4/14/how-much-will-us-hormuz-blockade-hurt-iran-and-does-tehran-have-an-escape). Naval blockades

UAE exit from OPEC signals closer alignment with US interests, experts say

Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas transits, mostly from Middle East nations to Asia and Europe, continues to be blocked amid the US-Israel war on Iran, sending

Trump’s threat: Why cutting US troops in Europe won’t be easy

conflict, this war against Iran, has a direct impact on our economic output”. On Tuesday, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that Merz “thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon

Iran calls US ship seizure ‘piracy’: Is it?

Strait of Hormuz towards Bandar Abbas. CENTCOM reported: “American forces issued multiple warnings and informed the Iranian-flagged vessel it was in violation of the US blockade.” “After Touska’s crew failed to comply with

Is India’s Chabahar dream in Iran dead?

Strait of Hormuz, January 17, 2012 [Raheb Homavandi/Reuters] ## What’s in Chabahar port for India? In southeastern Iran, perched on the Gulf of Oman, the Chabahar port comprises two terminals: Shahid Kalantari and Shahid Beheshti

The threat to summer holidays looming from jet fuel shortages

Strait of Hormuz having been blocked for the past eight weeks, however, those supplies have not been available, prompting a scramble for fuel produced elsewhere. This has pushed up prices dramatically. In late February, before

Another day, another pivot as Trump flails in an Iran trap of his own making

strait of Hormuz could be possible, but did not give a straight reply on the reported proposal. Tehran has said it wants the blockade to end first, before talking about anything else. The foreign ministry

How Iran war has triggered soaring cost of medicines, condoms

Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies are shipped in peacetime. Experts say this has also disrupted pharmaceutical supply chains, which are reliant

Tensions rise in two ceasefires in the Middle East. And, the Navy secretary ousted

Strait of Hormuz. The move jeopardized potential U.S.-Iran peace talks and came after a senior Iranian official said that Trump's [ceasefire extension "means nothing."](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/22/nx-s1-5795405/iran-middle-east-updates) Meanwhile in Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes killed

As Iran crisis drags on, fears of global food crisis grow

conflict continues into the middle of the year and oil prices remain above $100 a barrel.  A farmer harvests wheat crops in the suburbs of Peshawar, Pakistan

UK seeks closer EU ties in volatile times - but at what cost?

conflict this continent has seen since World War Two, petrol prices are rising, and the global economy is under strain because of knock-on effects of the Iran war. Relations with the UK's former