Photo: Arielinson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Gadi Eisenkot’s camp named Matan Kahana for Speaker and Avigdor Lieberman to chair the defence committee, but neither side has a majority.
Photo: Chatham House / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0More strikes do not seem necessary for now, the US President said, but his forces are “locked and loaded”; Iran wants the naval blockade lifted.
Photo: Drsaeed90 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Baghdad closed the crossing in Maysan province in October to install equipment to stop smuggling, amid US pressure to isolate Tehran.
Photo: B.alotaby / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0No one was hurt, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said; the Houthis said they had targeted airports and oil sites as fighting between the two sides grows.
Photo: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainIt is the fifth ship the US has disabled while enforcing its blockade of Iran, and the first in almost a month. A new task force will target Iran’s land and Caspian routes.
Photo: Corina Möller / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Iranian media gave conflicting accounts of whether missiles were involved. The blasts came a day after President Trump announced new limited US strikes on Iran.
Photo: Clema12 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0The former army chief won the backing of 67 of the 120 members of parliament, but forming a majority without Arab-led parties, which he has ruled out, will be hard.
