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Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to shipping in response to US and Israeli strikes, in order to ease pressure on global crude oil prices. On April 13, it renewed the waiver
Iran, should he decide to break a five-week-old truce and resume strikes in the hope of forcing concessions at the negotiating table. Lebanon’s state-run media reported that at least five villages
striking regional states and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz has dented the US’s appetite for renewing a costly and perhaps unremitting war against Tehran. ## Iranophobia For Netanyahu, the April 8 ceasefire
April 1982, the dispute between Argentina and the UK reached a boiling point. Argentina seized the islands in an attempt to take control of the archipelago. In response, then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dispatched
Iran. Israel responded with widespread air strikes across Lebanon and another invasion of the country's south. On 16 April, US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Hezbollah, which is designated
military and political goals nearly 100 days after they launched strikes on targets in Iran on 28 February. "Netanyahu has a long history of doing his own dance, irrespective of what he has heard from
military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, told people to immediately move at least 1,000 metres away in a post on social media before strikes struck the village. It also attacked the town
military said yesterday [it killed three men](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/us-three-killed-boat-alleged-narco-eastern-pacific)** **when it struck what it claimed was a drug boat** in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The number of deaths in such strikes under
Iran about drones and supply chain chokepoints, according to Suzuki at the Institute of Geoeconomics. In its latest legal backflip, Japan separately approved the export of lethal weapons this month as it moves to build
2023, long before Pahalgam. The political riots and attacks on military installations that day gave the then-army chief the opportunity to consolidate power by decisively dealing with his biggest internal political challenge,” he said
Iran ceasefire.” ## Israeli provocations Israel began its war on Lebanon in October 2023, the day after the beginning of the war on Gaza. A ceasefire was agreed between Israel and Hezbollah in November
strikes on Iran on February 28, and Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Twenty percent of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments transit the waterway during peacetime. The blockage
Strike, part of Balikatan, at Culili Point Sand Dunes, Paoay, Ilocos Norte province, Philippines, on May 6, 2026 [Noel Celis/Reuters] The 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the Philippines allows the US to refuel
Iran's supreme leader at the start of the war with Israel and the US. The IDF responded with a wave of strikes across Lebanon, targeting what it said was Hezbollah infrastructure, and launched
strikes on southern Iran [in a test of the seven-week long ceasefire](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/26/us-strikes-iran-missile-sites-vessels-trump-peace-deal-elusive), as both sides played down hopes for an imminent peace deal even as negotiators from Tehran began new talks
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israel also invaded southern Lebanon, where it has gone about systematically destroying towns and villages in what experts – and [Israeli officials](/news/2026/3/29/netanyahu-announces-expansion-of-security-buffer-zone-in-south-lebanon) – said is an effort to create an uninhabitable
strike that killed his father. The sources were quoted as saying he was taking part in meetings with senior officials through audioconferencing. Al Jazeera could not independently verify these claims. According to state media reports
strike targets in central and northern Sudan. In response, the army has acquired new drones, enabling it to target supply lines, eliminate several RSF leaders and destroy their military equipment. ## The human cost
April after the ceasefire agreement. “If we pay more attention to what President Trump does rather than what he says, then a ground invasion is quite likely,” said Ali Vaez, the Iran project director
military strikes, currently stalled amid a current shaky ceasefire and Pakistani-mediated negotiations. He thrust himself forward as a potential leader after protesters chanted his name and “javid shah” (long live the shah), in reference