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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday evening that there was no reason to remove enriched uranium from Iran. “It is entombed,” Trump said, adding that he did not favour the idea of the US milita
Middle East Monitor • Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:10:23 +0000
Abdul Malik al-Houthi, leader of Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis), said his group is in full coordination with resistance movements regarding developments in Lebanon and Palestine. Speaking
Middle East Monitor • Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:05:16 +0000
June 4 (Reuters) - EU ministers on Thursday broadly supported a proposal to limit access to temporary protection for Ukrainian men of military age, Sweden’s migration minister said.The European Union
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T18:01:44-0400
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get enriched uranium from the country."We could get it right now. I don't t
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T17:01:51-0400
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he believed progress was being made between Israel and Lebanon and that Lebanon deserved to have peace.Trump told reporters
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T17:01:51-0400
Tom Barrack, a senior figure within the Trump administration, was recently criticized by a member of the House for some of his past statements on Hezbollah.
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T16:12:37-0400
A majority of people in 36 countries hold unfavorable views of Israel and lack confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a new survey Thursday by the Pew Research Center. The surve
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:29:30 +0000
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held closed-door talks Thursday with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah to discuss the strategic partnership between the two nations following re
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:19:03 +0000
The meeting came a day after an Iranian strike on Kuwait International Airport killed one person and wounded more than 60 others.
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T15:13:31-0400
The UN said Thursday that funding shortfalls are forcing humanitarian partners in the Gaza Strip to reduce or suspend critical services, warning that aid operations are becoming increasingly difficult
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:10:02 +0000
TRIPOLI, June 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Libyan demonstrators blocked off the office of the U.N. refugee agency in the capital Tripoli on Thursday during a protest against migrants who have travelled t
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T15:01:43-0400
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a phone call Thursday with Khalil al-Hayya, head of the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and they discussed Palestine and the latest regional
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:53:44 +0000
A peacekeeper serving with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed and two others were wounded after mortar shells struck their position in southern Lebanon, the mission said Thursday, Ana
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:30:53 +0000
Despite living just 300 metres from the border wall separating Israel from Lebanon, Sigalit Levin has little enthusiasm for the new ceasefire deal meant to bring a lasting end to fighting with Hezboll
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T14:30:19-0400
At the University of Vienna, an independently organized student assembly voted by a large majority in favor of an academic boycott of Israeli educational institutions, according to the activist group,
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:21:12 +0000
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:01:57 +0000
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:50:52 +0000
LJUBLJANA, June 4 (Reuters) - Slovenia's parliament on Thursday approved Prime Minister Janez Jansa's centre-right government, which has pledged tax cuts, targeted spending and an anti-corruption driv
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T13:36:44-0400
June 4 - Residents of Gaza, south Lebanon, northern Israel and Kuwait were all under fire this week despite U.S.-arranged ceasefires supposedly in force in their regions.Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza an
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T13:36:44-0400
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:33:41 +0000
The UN nuclear agency reaffirmed in a confidential report seen by AFP on Thursday that a lack of access to Iran's nuclear material posed a "proliferation concern" and called on Teheran to act "constru
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T13:30:20-0400
Former Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert warned Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies could attempt to manipulate the next general elections, accusing them of using intimidation and
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:14:40 +0000
Iranian supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, appointed after a career entirely out of the spotlight as a behind-the-scenes figure, faces the challenge of occupying a role incarnated by his father for most
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T12:00:19-0400
The Strait of Hormuz crisis is reshaping global energy and trade flows, creating opportunities for economies far beyond the Middle East.
Al-Monitor • 2026-06-04T11:58:45-0400
From oil geopolitics to the water-energy nexus For more than a century, energy security in the Middle East has been defined by oil and gas. Strategic waterways, export routes, production capacities an
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:39:47 +0000
Jared Kushner has suggested that countries which normalise relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords could be rewarded with investment money and political backing. Speaking in a video intervie
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:26:37 +0000
Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is now finding full exp
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:21:49 +0000
Seizing 70 percent of Gaza is not part of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on Tuesday at the House Appropriations subcommittee meeting. “We have a plan.
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:15:29 +0000
The defence team of Rached Ghannouchi, head of Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement, described his life sentence in the case known as the “secret apparatus” case as “shocking and unjust,” following a Tunisian c
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:10:00 +0000
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad accused Israel on Wednesday of continuing to violate the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip through ongoing military attacks and the targeting of civilians. In a state
Middle East Monitor • Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:02:05 +0000