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Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah held a phone call with Secretary of State of the United States of America Marco Rubio

His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, received a phone call today from President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump

Speaking at the National Defense University Staff Officers' Graduation Ceremony, President Erdoğan said: "We as the 86 million will never forget that we are brothers and sisters sharing the same fate while advancing towards our Century of Türkiye goals. Especially, once we accomplish our terror-free Türkiye process, which we are carrying out to rid our country of a half-century-old problem, we will inshallah begin writing a new success story at home and abroad."

Allied fighter detachments, surface-based air defence units, and command components successfully validated defensive concepts for eVA Eastern Sentry during exercise Athena Warrior in June 2026.

On the afternoon of July 10, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping met with Pak Thae Song, Member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Vice President of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Premier of the Cabinet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Premier Pak Thae Song is on an official visit to China.

The United States imposed sweeping new sanctions targeting an Iranian businessman accused of managing a global financial network for Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and several exchange houses that Washington says have helped Tehran evade sanctions and maintain access to foreign currency.

US President Donald Trump said Iran has requested that "talks" between the two countries continue, although he emphatically warned Tehran that the current cease-fire is no longer in effect amid a flurry of tit-for-tat strikes by both sides.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States has agreed to continue the negotiation process with Iran at Tehran's request, however indicating that the ceasefire is over.

The administration of US President Donald Trump does not want to see Israel involved in the strikes against Iran amid renewed hostilities between Washington and Tehran, media reported on Friday, citing two Israeli sources.

The United States is taking decisive action to cut off the financial lifelines sustaining Iran's ruling elite.

Today, following Iran's resumption of attacks on international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against Iranian financial facilitator Ali Ansari (Ansari), who oversees a sprawling global network of assets benefitting Iran's leader—Mojtaba Khamenei—and other regime elites. Ansari has effectively institutionalized large‑scale embezzlement within the Iranian regime, diverting publicly funded wealth into an extensive overseas portfolio of real estate and commercial holdings to enrich himself, regime elites—including notable senior figures within the Supreme Leader's Office—and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). OFAC today also targeted key Iranian exchange houses that move billions of dollars annually on behalf of sanctioned Iranian banks, using layers of shell companies to obscure the regime's illicit financial activity.

Following the collapse of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the region's chaotic recent military escalations, the United Nations dedicated nuclear agency has "lost continuity of knowledge" about the Iranian nuclear programme it was once tasked with overseeing, the Security Council heard today, in a briefing by the Organization's senior political affairs officer.

Statement by Ambassador Kate Foster, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Iran.

Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was buried Thursday at the Imam Reza Shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad, bringing to a close a week of funeral ceremonies, Anadolu Agency reports citing Iranian state media.

Iran held an extravagant, weeklong funeral procession to mourn Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the war with the United States and Israel.

Despite days of military exchanges between the US and Iran, Washington insists it remains committed to finding a diplomatic solution, with technical talks continuing behind the scenes.

In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted an airstrike targeting al-Shabaab on July 8, 2026.

Demonstrating an unwavering commitment to ongoing disaster relief efforts, the amphibious transport dock USS San Antonio (LPD 17) arrived pierside in La Guaira on Thursday, July 9, 2026. The San Antonio seamlessly relieved the USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) as the primary maritime component center in support of the Department of State-led humanitarian assistance mission following the devastating June 24 earthquakes.

The new Air Force One that US President Donald Trump used earlier this week to travel to Türkiye lacks some of the defensive systems found on the previous presidential aircraft, including advanced antimissile capabilities, Anadolu Agency reported citing the New York Times.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- The U.S. Navy will christen the future USS George M. Neal (DDG 131) during a ceremony at Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) Shipbuilding on Saturday, July 11, at 9 a.m. CDT.