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Uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz remains, as ceasefire nears its end

news related to Iran just prior to landing at Joint Base Andrews. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1024x683+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F95%2F9f%2Fe40ec65f42bbad8ad2570e1746e7%2Fgettyimages-2271863466.jpg) U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press aboard Air Force

Controversy as Lebanese banker Sehnaoui is praised for supporting Israel

strike. Israeli action has also displaced more than a million people – about 20 percent of the population – from southern Lebanon in a chaotic flight that has destabilised the country and heightened [sectarian tensions](/news/2026/4/16/sectarian-fears-increase-as-a-beirut-area-says-no-to-displacement-centre). Responding

Lebanon accuses Israel of targeting journalist killed in airstrike

strike. At the time, the IDF confirmed it killed Shoeib and Mohamed Ftouni, describing them as "terrorists" from Hezbollah's military wing, while saying it was aware of reports a female journalist was also killed

Iran war: What is happening on day 52 of the US-Israeli conflict?

News reporter Jonathan Karl posted on X on Sunday. Trump added that a peace deal “will happen. ⁠One way or another”. ## In Israel - Argentine President Javier Milei, has reaffirmed his country’s support

Trump doubts shooter motivated by Iran war as peace talks on hold

news on the war in the Middle East: ### **Iran war mediator sends message to Trump** Numerous heads of state and officials sent well-wishes to Trump after the correspondent's dinner shooting incident. Among them

Israel and Lebanon hold first direct talks since 1993

strikes began in Iran. While the two sides were meeting in Washington on Tuesday, Hezbollah claimed at least 24 attacks on Israel and Israeli troops in Lebanon. Drone and rocket alarms sounded in communities across

Trump's Lebanon ceasefire takes Israel by surprise

southern Lebanon, and only yesterday its chief army spokesman said they would continue advancing. This ceasefire announcement has taken Israel by surprise – reportedly even within the government's own security cabinet. A widely respected Israeli

Iran war: What’s happening on day 65 as Trump reviews new plan to end war?

News Agency. - The 14-point Iranian plan includes guarantees of nonaggression, the withdrawal of US forces from the vicinity of Iran, the lifting of the US naval blockade, the release of Iran’s frozen assets

Mediators push to extend U.S.-Iran ceasefire

strikes, according to Lebanese health officials. Hezbollah has also fired into Israel, killing at least 12 soldiers and two civilians, according to Israeli health authorities. Fighting between Israel and Lebanon began just days after

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threaten US sites in Middle East if tankers come under fire

news agency. On Friday, a US fighter jet fired on and disabled two Iranian-flagged tankers that Washington accused of challenging its blockade of Iran’s ports. An Iranian military official told local media

Iran considering US proposal to end war, official says

News Agency (ISNA). Responding to the Axios report, Ebrahim Rezaei, the spokesperson of the Iranian Parliament's national security and foreign policy commission, wrote on X: "The Americans will not gain anything

Trump cancels his envoys’ Pakistan trip for Iran ceasefire negotiations

News: “They can call us anytime they want.” The White House on Friday said Steve Witkoff and [Jared Kushner](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/jared-kushner) would travel to Pakistan’s capital to attempt to revive ceasefire negotiations. Iran

As the U.S.-Iran ceasefire deadline looms, here are the main sticking points

News](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-20/trump-says-iran-truce-extension-unlikely-hormuz-to-stay-blocked) on Monday that a renewal of the ceasefire was "highly unlikely." Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, Iran's chief negotiator and parliament speaker, accused the United States late Monday of forcing Iran

WHCA dinner shooter charged. And, Charles III to address Congress

news you need to start your day.* ### Today's top stories **Federal prosecutors have charged Cole Allen, the alleged gunman at the White House Correspondents' Dinner,** with attempting to assassinate President Trump. Allen made

Is Egypt threatening Israel through its military exercises on the border?

news. “How, after everything we’ve been through, does the [Israeli military] approve a foreign army operating with live fire right on the contact line?” “Gunfire noise is the perfect cover for smuggling or even

Turkiye unveils its first intercontinental ballistic missile: What we know

Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. In March, when Iran was retaliating against the US-Israeli strikes by attacking US military assets and infrastructure in the Middle East, Ankara [reported](/news/2026/3/18/turkiye-says-nato-bringing-in-more-defences-after-missile-interceptions#:~:text=NATO%20air%20defences%20shot

Cloud over US-Iran talks: What are the key sticking points?

News Agency reported that Iranian forces had sent drones in the direction of US military ships. Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee, told Al Jazeera that Iran’s actions

Middle East crisis live: Witkoff and Kushner head to Pakistan for Iran negotiations

strikes hit the villages of Deir al-Zahrani, Kfar Reman and al-Sama’iya, which are **north of where IDF forces are located in southern Lebanon.** On Thursday, [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) announced that