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Iran accused Qatar on Sunday of thwarting efforts to work out what happened to three pilots Tehran says were captured during the Middle East war, though the Gulf state has denied detaining them. The Islamic republic had previously reported one pilot killed and others missing after a sortie to Qatar in March, but had not claimed at the time that any of them had been captured. "A team of experts from the Iranian Air Force has been waiting for several months to travel to Qatar to conduct an on-site investigation," said General Mohammad Bagherzadeh of the Iranian armed forces. "However, due to persistent delays by Qatari authorities, the return of our brave pilots to their homeland remains impossible," he added, according to the Tasnim news agency. He called on Doha to authorise the team to travel to Qatar. Bagherzadeh had accused Qatar on Saturday of having captured three Iranian pilots who were carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid air base in early March and demanded their release.
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The oil leaking from the Russian tanker Caroline Bezengi is now covering about 7.5 miles of Oman's Ras Madrakah coastline, a beach area on the Arabian Sea, according to the country's official state news agency. The ship was struck in June and then eventually ran aground on an uninhabited, rocky island in the Strait of Hormuz. Everyone has long since evacuated the ship and no one has taken responsibility for the strike. Satellite images showed the first signs of an oil leak on June 30, according to John Amos, whose environmental nonprofit SkyTruth has been tracking the ship. He estimated hundreds of thousands of gallons had spilled by Aug.
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Khalil al-Hayya, the political chief for the militant group Hamas, was set to travel to Cairo on Saturday evening for talks with Egyptian officials, a Hamas source told Agence France-Presse, ahead of a visit by President Trump's son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner to the region. Hayya, who will be visiting Egypt for the first time since assuming leadership of Hamas in late July, is due to meet with Egypt's intelligence chief Hassan Rashad on Sunday morning, the source said. Kushner will visit Israel and Egypt next week in hopes of bridging gaps on a Gaza plan rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and will be accompanied by Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza of Mr. Trump's so-called Board of Peace tasked with implementing the deal. The trip comes after Netanyahu publicly dismissed a 15-point plan announced by Mladenov in which Hamas agreed to hand over its weapons to a new Palestinian governing committee in Gaza.
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Khalil al-Hayya, the political chief for the militant group Hamas, was set to travel to Cairo on Saturday evening for talks with Egyptian officials, a Hamas source told Agence France-Presse, ahead of a visit by President Trump's son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner to the region. Hayya, who will be visiting Egypt for the first time since assuming leadership of Hamas in late July, is due to meet with Egypt's intelligence chief Hassan Rashad on Sunday morning, the source said. Kushner will visit Israel and Egypt next week in hopes of bridging gaps on a Gaza plan rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and will be accompanied by Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza of Mr. Trump's so-called Board of Peace tasked with implementing the deal. The trip comes after Netanyahu publicly dismissed a 15-point plan announced by Mladenov in which Hamas agreed to hand over its weapons to a new Palestinian governing committee in Gaza.
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The commander of the U.S. military's Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, visited with service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a 10-day trip to the region, CENTCOM said Saturday. Brad Cooper met with sailors and Marines on the aircraft carrier, during which he "addressed the entire Lincoln team and thanked them for their tremendous dedication and courage," CENTCOM reported . The Lincoln, which has about 5,000 service members and is based out of San Diego, has been deployed since November 2025, first in the Pacific and then to the Middle East prior to the Iran war. U.S. military vessels are normally deployed for about six months. It's not like they're even state-of-the-art.
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The commander of the U.S. military's Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, visited with service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a 10-day trip to the region, CENTCOM said Saturday. Brad Cooper met with sailors and Marines on the aircraft carrier, during which he "addressed the entire Lincoln team and thanked them for their tremendous dedication and courage," CENTCOM reported . The Lincoln, which has about 5,000 service members and is based out of San Diego, has been deployed since November 2025, first in the Pacific and then to the Middle East prior to the Iran war. U.S. military vessels are normally deployed for about six months. It's not like they're even state-of-the-art.
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The commander of the U.S. military's Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, visited with service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a 10-day trip to the region, CENTCOM said Saturday. Brad Cooper met with sailors and Marines on the aircraft carrier, during which he "addressed the entire Lincoln team and thanked them for their tremendous dedication and courage," CENTCOM reported . The Lincoln, which has about 5,000 service members and is based out of San Diego, has been deployed since November 2025, first in the Pacific and then to the Middle East prior to the Iran war. U.S. military vessels are normally deployed for about six months. It's not like they're even state-of-the-art.
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The commander of the U.S. military's Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, visited with service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a 10-day trip to the region, CENTCOM said Saturday. Brad Cooper met with sailors and Marines on the aircraft carrier, during which he "addressed the entire Lincoln team and thanked them for their tremendous dedication and courage," CENTCOM reported . The Lincoln, which has about 5,000 service members and is based out of San Diego, has been deployed since November 2025, first in the Pacific and then to the Middle East prior to the Iran war. U.S. military vessels are normally deployed for about six months. It's not like they're even state-of-the-art.
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The commander of the U.S. military's Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, visited with service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a 10-day trip to the region, CENTCOM said Saturday. Brad Cooper met with sailors and Marines on the aircraft carrier, during which he "addressed the entire Lincoln team and thanked them for their tremendous dedication and courage," CENTCOM reported . The Lincoln, which has about 5,000 service members and is based out of San Diego, has been deployed since November 2025, first in the Pacific and then to the Middle East prior to the Iran war. U.S. military vessels are normally deployed for about six months. It's not like they're even state-of-the-art.
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A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic, part of new weekly service on a route that allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea, where shipping has been targeted by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. The "Dubai Tower" left the eastern port city of Ningbo on Saturday evening heading north, where it will pass through the Bering Strait, then turn west through the frigid waters along Russia's northern coast. It is expected to reach Felixstowe in the United Kingdom on September 7, followed by stops in Hamburg, Germany and Gdynia, Poland later that week, according to a timetable published by Sea Legend. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) from China to Europe is significantly faster than that through the Suez Canal and allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea. But the route is only accessible during the time of the year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.
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A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic, part of new weekly service on a route that allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea, where shipping has been targeted by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. The "Dubai Tower" left the eastern port city of Ningbo on Saturday evening heading north, where it will pass through the Bering Strait, then turn west through the frigid waters along Russia's northern coast. It is expected to reach Felixstowe in the United Kingdom on September 7, followed by stops in Hamburg, Germany and Gdynia, Poland later that week, according to a timetable published by Sea Legend. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) from China to Europe is significantly faster than that through the Suez Canal and allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea. But the route is only accessible during the time of the year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.
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A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic, part of new weekly service on a route that allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea, where shipping has been targeted by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. The "Dubai Tower" left the eastern port city of Ningbo on Saturday evening heading north, where it will pass through the Bering Strait, then turn west through the frigid waters along Russia's northern coast. It is expected to reach Felixstowe in the United Kingdom on September 7, followed by stops in Hamburg, Germany and Gdynia, Poland later that week, according to a timetable published by Sea Legend. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) from China to Europe is significantly faster than that through the Suez Canal and allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea. But the route is only accessible during the time of the year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.
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A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic, part of new weekly service on a route that allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea, where shipping has been targeted by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. The "Dubai Tower" left the eastern port city of Ningbo on Saturday evening heading north, where it will pass through the Bering Strait, then turn west through the frigid waters along Russia's northern coast. It is expected to reach Felixstowe in the United Kingdom on September 7, followed by stops in Hamburg, Germany and Gdynia, Poland later that week, according to a timetable published by Sea Legend. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) from China to Europe is significantly faster than that through the Suez Canal and allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea. But the route is only accessible during the time of the year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.
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A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic, part of new weekly service on a route that allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea, where shipping has been targeted by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. The "Dubai Tower" left the eastern port city of Ningbo on Saturday evening heading north, where it will pass through the Bering Strait, then turn west through the frigid waters along Russia's northern coast. It is expected to reach Felixstowe in the United Kingdom on September 7, followed by stops in Hamburg, Germany and Gdynia, Poland later that week, according to a timetable published by Sea Legend. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) from China to Europe is significantly faster than that through the Suez Canal and allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea. But the route is only accessible during the time of the year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.
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A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic, part of new weekly service on a route that allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea, where shipping has been targeted by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. The "Dubai Tower" left the eastern port city of Ningbo on Saturday evening heading north, where it will pass through the Bering Strait, then turn west through the frigid waters along Russia's northern coast. It is expected to reach Felixstowe in the United Kingdom on September 7, followed by stops in Hamburg, Germany and Gdynia, Poland later that week, according to a timetable published by Sea Legend. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) from China to Europe is significantly faster than that through the Suez Canal and allows vessels to avoid the Red Sea. But the route is only accessible during the time of the year when the ice is melted enough to allow transits without icebreakers.
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Iran's judiciary announced the execution on Sunday of a man who was convicted of running over several police officers with his car during anti-government protests in January. "Shahram Sadeghi, sentenced to death for having carried out an operational action in support of the Zionist regime and the United States, was executed this morning," the judiciary's Mizan Online website said. It added that the man had run over several police officers with his car on January 8 in Karaj, west of Tehran, wounding seven of them. A protest movement initially sparked in late December by the high cost of living rapidly evolved into widespread anti-government demonstrations that peaked on January 8 and 9. Iranian authorities reported more than 3,000 deaths, attributing the violence to "terrorist acts" orchestrated by the United States and Israel, while rights groups based abroad maintain that security forces fired on protesters.
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Iran's judiciary announced the execution on Sunday of a man who was convicted of running over several police officers with his car during anti-government protests in January. "Shahram Sadeghi, sentenced to death for having carried out an operational action in support of the Zionist regime and the United States, was executed this morning," the judiciary's Mizan Online website said. It added that the man had run over several police officers with his car on January 8 in Karaj, west of Tehran, wounding seven of them. A protest movement initially sparked in late December by the high cost of living rapidly evolved into widespread anti-government demonstrations that peaked on January 8 and 9. Iranian authorities reported more than 3,000 deaths, attributing the violence to "terrorist acts" orchestrated by the United States and Israel, while rights groups based abroad maintain that security forces fired on protesters.
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Iran accused Qatar on Sunday of thwarting efforts to work out what happened to three pilots Tehran says were captured during the Middle East war, though the Gulf state has denied detaining them. The Islamic republic had previously reported one pilot killed and others missing after a sortie to Qatar in March, but had not claimed at the time that any of them had been captured. "A team of experts from the Iranian Air Force has been waiting for several months to travel to Qatar to conduct an on-site investigation," said General Mohammad Bagherzadeh of the Iranian armed forces. "However, due to persistent delays by Qatari authorities, the return of our brave pilots to their homeland remains impossible," he added, according to the Tasnim news agency. He called on Doha to authorise the team to travel to Qatar. Bagherzadeh had accused Qatar on Saturday of having captured three Iranian pilots who were carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid air base in early March and demanded their release.
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Iran accused Qatar on Sunday of thwarting efforts to work out what happened to three pilots Tehran says were captured during the Middle East war, though the Gulf state has denied detaining them. The Islamic republic had previously reported one pilot killed and others missing after a sortie to Qatar in March, but had not claimed at the time that any of them had been captured. "A team of experts from the Iranian Air Force has been waiting for several months to travel to Qatar to conduct an on-site investigation," said General Mohammad Bagherzadeh of the Iranian armed forces. "However, due to persistent delays by Qatari authorities, the return of our brave pilots to their homeland remains impossible," he added, according to the Tasnim news agency. He called on Doha to authorise the team to travel to Qatar. Bagherzadeh had accused Qatar on Saturday of having captured three Iranian pilots who were carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid air base in early March and demanded their release.
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Iran accused Qatar on Sunday of thwarting efforts to work out what happened to three pilots Tehran says were captured during the Middle East war, though the Gulf state has denied detaining them. The Islamic republic had previously reported one pilot killed and others missing after a sortie to Qatar in March, but had not claimed at the time that any of them had been captured. "A team of experts from the Iranian Air Force has been waiting for several months to travel to Qatar to conduct an on-site investigation," said General Mohammad Bagherzadeh of the Iranian armed forces. "However, due to persistent delays by Qatari authorities, the return of our brave pilots to their homeland remains impossible," he added, according to the Tasnim news agency. He called on Doha to authorise the team to travel to Qatar. Bagherzadeh had accused Qatar on Saturday of having captured three Iranian pilots who were carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid air base in early March and demanded their release.
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Iran accused Qatar on Sunday of thwarting efforts to work out what happened to three pilots Tehran says were captured during the Middle East war, though the Gulf state has denied detaining them. The Islamic republic had previously reported one pilot killed and others missing after a sortie to Qatar in March, but had not claimed at the time that any of them had been captured. "A team of experts from the Iranian Air Force has been waiting for several months to travel to Qatar to conduct an on-site investigation," said General Mohammad Bagherzadeh of the Iranian armed forces. "However, due to persistent delays by Qatari authorities, the return of our brave pilots to their homeland remains impossible," he added, according to the Tasnim news agency. He called on Doha to authorise the team to travel to Qatar. Bagherzadeh had accused Qatar on Saturday of having captured three Iranian pilots who were carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid air base in early March and demanded their release.
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Iran accused Qatar on Sunday of thwarting efforts to work out what happened to three pilots Tehran says were captured during the Middle East war, though the Gulf state has denied detaining them. The Islamic republic had previously reported one pilot killed and others missing after a sortie to Qatar in March, but had not claimed at the time that any of them had been captured. "A team of experts from the Iranian Air Force has been waiting for several months to travel to Qatar to conduct an on-site investigation," said General Mohammad Bagherzadeh of the Iranian armed forces. "However, due to persistent delays by Qatari authorities, the return of our brave pilots to their homeland remains impossible," he added, according to the Tasnim news agency. He called on Doha to authorise the team to travel to Qatar. Bagherzadeh had accused Qatar on Saturday of having captured three Iranian pilots who were carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid air base in early March and demanded their release.
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Iran accused Qatar on Sunday of thwarting efforts to work out what happened to three pilots Tehran says were captured during the Middle East war, though the Gulf state has denied detaining them. The Islamic republic had previously reported one pilot killed and others missing after a sortie to Qatar in March, but had not claimed at the time that any of them had been captured. "A team of experts from the Iranian Air Force has been waiting for several months to travel to Qatar to conduct an on-site investigation," said General Mohammad Bagherzadeh of the Iranian armed forces. "However, due to persistent delays by Qatari authorities, the return of our brave pilots to their homeland remains impossible," he added, according to the Tasnim news agency. He called on Doha to authorise the team to travel to Qatar. Bagherzadeh had accused Qatar on Saturday of having captured three Iranian pilots who were carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid air base in early March and demanded their release.
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Iran accused Qatar on Sunday of thwarting efforts to work out what happened to three pilots Tehran says were captured during the Middle East war, though the Gulf state has denied detaining them. The Islamic republic had previously reported one pilot killed and others missing after a sortie to Qatar in March, but had not claimed at the time that any of them had been captured. "A team of experts from the Iranian Air Force has been waiting for several months to travel to Qatar to conduct an on-site investigation," said General Mohammad Bagherzadeh of the Iranian armed forces. "However, due to persistent delays by Qatari authorities, the return of our brave pilots to their homeland remains impossible," he added, according to the Tasnim news agency. He called on Doha to authorise the team to travel to Qatar. Bagherzadeh had accused Qatar on Saturday of having captured three Iranian pilots who were carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid air base in early March and demanded their release.
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Iran accused Qatar on Sunday of thwarting efforts to work out what happened to three pilots Tehran says were captured during the Middle East war, though the Gulf state has denied detaining them. The Islamic republic had previously reported one pilot killed and others missing after a sortie to Qatar in March, but had not claimed at the time that any of them had been captured. "A team of experts from the Iranian Air Force has been waiting for several months to travel to Qatar to conduct an on-site investigation," said General Mohammad Bagherzadeh of the Iranian armed forces. "However, due to persistent delays by Qatari authorities, the return of our brave pilots to their homeland remains impossible," he added, according to the Tasnim news agency. He called on Doha to authorise the team to travel to Qatar. Bagherzadeh had accused Qatar on Saturday of having captured three Iranian pilots who were carrying out an operation against the United States' Al Udeid air base in early March and demanded their release.
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