The United States has threatened Iran with sweeping economic isolation and said new measures are due next week, while renewed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz kept pressure on shipping and energy markets.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Türkiye and Egypt had agreed on the need for stronger measures over Gaza following talks with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, on Aug. 14.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with senior Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) lawmakers on Aug. 13 to discuss how a newly passed framework bill tied to the government’s “terror-free Türkiye” initiative would be implemente...

NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace, the country's defense ministry confirmed on Aug. 14, followed by an announcement from the military.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Aug. 13 denounced a five-day siege of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank town of Qusra as a “horrific act of terror.”