WASHINGTON (MNTV) — U.S. President Donald Trump has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to begin withdrawing Israeli forces from parts of Syria and Lebanon, according to a report by Axios citing U.S. and Israeli officials familiar with the discussions. The request was reportedly made during a phone call last Thursday, in which Trum...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (MNTV) — The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine welcomed the Church of England General Synod’s decision to encourage engagement with the Kairos Palestine and Kairos Palestine II documents. It described the move as an important step toward strengthening international church support for justi...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) — A group of Democratic senators has demanded that the Pentagon immediately release its investigation into a U.S. military strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed more than 175 people, including dozens of children. The group accused the Defense Department of withholding information from Congress and the American p...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) — The United States has reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports and launched a new wave of airstrikes across Iran, dramatically escalating the conflict and effectively ending a fragile interim peace agreement that had briefly raised hopes of reducing tensions between Washington and Tehran. The U.S. military announced that...
TEHRAN, Iran (MNTV) — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that it had destroyed U.S. military equipment and drones in coordinated missile and drone strikes targeting American military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait, marking another escalation in the widening confrontation between Tehran and Washington. In a statemen...
ANKARA (MNTV) — Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, is on an official visit to Ankara as Pakistan and Türkiye seek to expand their longstanding strategic partnership through deeper defense, technological, and economic cooperation. The high-level engagement reflects a shared objective of st...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (MNTV) — The family of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has accused Israeli prison guards of shooting him in the leg with a rubber bullet and leaving him without medical treatment, describing the incident as part of an ongoing pattern of abuse against one of Palestine’s most prominent political figures. ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (MNTV) — Venture capital investment in Middle East and North Africa startups fell sharply during the first half of 2026 as regional conflicts, cautious investors and weaker cross-border capital flows slowed fundraising across the region, according to a new industry report. Research platform MAGNiTT said startups across the...
WASHINGTON (MNTV) — President Donald Trump announced that the United States is reinstating a naval blockade on Iranian ports and intends to impose transit fees on commercial cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz, marking a major escalation in Washington’s maritime strategy as fighting with Iran continues. In a statement posted on Tr...
NEW YORK (MNTV) — Global oil prices rose sharply on Monday after renewed military tensions in the Middle East heightened concerns over disruptions to energy supplies, while losses in major artificial intelligence-related technology stocks weighed on U.S. and Asian equity markets. Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, climbed about 4.5%...
