Archives for April, 2026

An Israeli anti-missile system operates for an interception, over the Israeli border with Lebanon, in northern Israel, April 9, 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Israeli military says Hezbollah launched missile at Israel, triggering sirens

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaks during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Trump says Iran should not charge fees to tankers going through Strait of Hormuz

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: World Bank President Ajay Banga gives remarks during a forum held at the Atlantic Council building in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 7, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz/File Photo

World Bank could mobilize at least $20 billion in post-war support, Bloomberg news reports

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Vehicles move along a road as smoke billows from Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery after a reported Iranian drone strike, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Attacks cut Saudi oil output and East-West pipeline flow, state news agency says

Reuters

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference following their meeting at Chequers, near Aylesbury, Britain, September 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Starmer, Trump discussed opening Strait of Hormuz, Downing Street says

Reuters

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva urged 'restrictive, targeted, temporary actions' by governments

IMF chief urges nations to 'do no harm' in fiscal response to Iran war

Agence France-Presse

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau attends a working lunch at the Shield of the Americas Summit at Trump National Doral Miami, in Doral, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2026. Rebecca Blackwell/Pool via REUTERS

US summons Iraqi ambassador over drone strike on diplomatic facility in Baghdad

Reuters

Some 800 ships remain stuck in Gulf waters

Shipping toll for Hormuz passage sharply divides nations

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: Two F/A-18 Super Hornets launch from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of the Operation Epic Fury attack on Iran from an undisclosed location March 3, 2026. U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY/File Photo

US Republicans block bid to rein in Trump Iran war powers

Reuters

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer is greeted by the Saudi Royal Guard of Honour as he arrives at the airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, April 8, 2026. Alastair Grant/Pool via REUTERS

UK's Starmer says Iran conflict shows Britain must take a new path

Reuters

Some 90 percent of Iran's crude exports pass through Kharg Island, making it a potentially crucial pressure point for Tehran

Strait of Hormuz traffic remains becalmed despite ceasefire

Agence France-Presse

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has traditionally been a bipartisan organization, supported by Democrats including 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

Israel tensions surface as Democrats plot US midterms

Agence France-Presse

Hezbollah Member of Parliament Ali Fayyad stands in Burj al-Muluk, near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, where Israeli forces remained on the ground after a deadline for their withdrawal passed as residents sought to return to homes in the border area, Lebanon January 26, 2025. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher

Hezbollah lawmaker says group rejects direct negotiations with Israel

Reuters

Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi speaks to the media outside Security Council chambers at the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

UN envoy meets Iran deputy minister and visits bombed sites in Tehran

Reuters

A security vehicle moves past the President house as Pakistan gears up to host the U.S. and Iran for peace talks, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 9, 2026. REUTERS/Waseem Khan

Analysis-Pakistan's high-stakes Iran peace bid is fraught with risk

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Two F/A-18 Super Hornets launch from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in support of the Operation Epic Fury attack on Iran from an undisclosed location March 3, 2026. U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

US Republicans block bid to rein in Trump Iran war powers

Reuters