U.S. President Donald Trump vowed July 22 to help Lebanon "a lot" as its president, Joseph Aoun, sought Washington's backing for a fragile effort to disarm Hezbollah and forge a path to peace with Israel.
Fresh U.S. strikes triggered air defenses in Tehran on July 22 after President Donald Trump warned he was "not finished" with a war with Iran that has already cost his nation $37.5 billion.
Civilian casualties in the war raging between Russia and Ukraine rose 37 percent in the first half of this year, the United Nations said on July 21.
The Lebanese army announced on July 21 that it had begun deploying to an area in the south, one of three “pilot zones” outlined in a deal with Israel to disarm Hezbollah.
Iran said it targeted U.S. radar and air defense installations in Bahrain and Kuwait on July 21, warning of stronger attacks as Yemen’s Houthi rebels threatened to block Saudi shipping through the Red Sea.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on July 21, seeking greater pressure on Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon as Washington pushes Beirut to disarm Hezbollah.
U.S. President Donald Trump on July 20 vowed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not face arrest at a U.N. summit in New York, after the city's new mayor said he was investigating the move.
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas announced on July 20 that it elected Khalil al-Hayya, the group’s lead negotiator in indirect ceasefire talks with Israel, as the new head of its political bureau.
Andy Burnham became British prime minister on July 20 after meeting King Charles III at Buckingham Palace and was set to set out his vision for the country after taking over from Keir Starmer.
Vice President JD Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, on July 19 announced the birth of their fourth child, the first born to a sitting vice president in more than 150 years.
Indian police fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters in New Delhi yesterday as they tried to march on parliament to demand the resignation of the education minister over irregularities in major examinations.
Ukraine launched scores of drones at the Moscow region on July 20, sparking fires and wounding at least 10 people, Russia said.
Ukraine said on July 19 that Russian missile strikes on a Turkish-owned cargo ship carrying grain had killed six people, hours after Moscow fired a fresh barrage of missiles at Kiev.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on July 20 said his country was in a “full-scale war” with the United States and that Tehran should accept the repercussions of the conflict.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is in talks over whether to try to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an upcoming UN summit, he said in an interview published on July 18, prompting a sharp rebuke from Netanyahu's camp.
Iraq and Syria signed a memorandum of understanding in Washington last week to rehabilitate and reconstruct the Iraq-Syria crude oil pipeline, a project aimed at restoring a key export route from Iraqi oil fields to Syria’s Mediterranean coast and to reduce the dependence to the Strait of Hormuz.
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