• Menteri pertahanan Jerman menanggapi pengumuman presiden AS bahwa 5.000 tentara AS akan meninggalkan pangkalan di Jerman
• Halo dan selamat datang di liputan langsung kami mengenai peristiwa di Timur Tengah.
• Menteri pertahanan Jerman, Boris Pistorius, mengatakan bahwa penarikan pasukan AS dari Eropa sudah "dapat diperkirakan", setelah Pentagon mengumumkan akan menarik ribuan tentara Amerika dari Jerman.
• Pete Hegseth berargumen bahwa perjanjian gencatan senjata dengan Iran lebih dari tiga minggu lalu ‘berarti jam 60 hari dijeda, atau berhenti’
• Berlangganan email Breaking News US untuk mendapatkan peringatan buletin di kotak masuk Anda
• Halo dan selamat datang di liputan langsung kami hari ini.
• Menteri pertahanan akan diinterogasi oleh para pembuat undang-undang di Komite Angkatan Bersenjata Senat setelah sesi yang penuh ketegangan di DPR kemarin.
• Daftar untuk email Breaking News US. Halo dan selamat datang di liputan politik AS kami saat Pete Hegseth menghadapi hari kedua interogasi dari Partai Demokrat di Capitol Hill, di mana para senator mendapatkan kesempatan pertama untuk mengonfrontasi atau memuji kepala Pentagon atas penanganannya terhadap perang Iran.
• Menteri pertahanan berdebat dengan Demokrat - dan beberapa Republik - kemarin selama hampir enam jam dengar pendapat Komite Angkatan Bersenjata DPR, di mana ia menghadapi pertanyaan mengenai biaya perang dalam dolar, nyawa, dan berkurangnya stok senjata krusial.
Pernyataan presiden AS menyusul komentar kanselir Jerman bahwa AS sedang ‘dipermalukan’ dalam konflik. Presiden AS Donald Trump mengancam akan mengurangi jumlah pasukan yang ditempatkan di Jerman tadi malam, setelah Kanselir Friedrich Merz mengatakan pekan ini bahwa AS sedang “dipermalukan” oleh Iran. Trump mengatakan bahwa AS sedang “mempelajari dan meninjau kemungkinan pengurangan pasukan di Jerman, dengan keputusan yang akan dibuat dalam periode waktu singkat mendatang.” “Kanselir Jerman, Friedrich Merz, menganggap tidak apa-apa jika Iran memiliki Senjata Nuklir. Dia tidak tahu apa yang dia bicarakan! Jika Iran memiliki Senjata Nuklir, seluruh Dunia akan disandera. Saya sedang melakukan sesuatu terhadap Iran, saat ini juga, yang seharusnya dilakukan oleh Bangsa-Bangsa, atau Presiden lain, sejak lama. Tidak heran Jerman berkinerja sangat buruk, baik secara Ekonomi maupun hal lainnya! Presiden DONALD J. TRUMP” Lanjutkan membaca...
• Ursula von der Leyen dijadwalkan bertemu pemimpin baru Hungaria yang berupaya membuka kembali dana Uni Eropa sebagai imbalan atas reformasi.
• Von der Leyen mengatakan bahwa “setiap negara anggota memiliki campuran energi yang berbeda,” sehingga tidak ada solusi umum Uni Eropa yang akan berhasil.
• Namun ia menyerukan koordinasi lebih lanjut tidak hanya pada pengadaan bersama, tetapi juga pada cadangan bahan bakar, “terutama bahan bakar jet dan diesel, di mana pasar sedang mengetat.”
Tehran’s UN envoy says ‘full respect’ of Iran’s rights also key for lasting regional stabilityUS is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich MerzWe are restarting our live coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran.Iran needs “credible guarantees” against more US-Israeli attacks before it can ensure security in the Gulf, Tehran’s envoy to the UN has said, while on a Russian visit Iran’s foreign minister blamed Washington for the failure of peace talks.Donald Trump is unhappy with an Iranian proposal on the war because it does not address Iran’s nuclear program, Reuters cited a US official as saying on Monday, after Trump discussed the proposal with his top national security aides. Iran had offered to end its closure of the strait of Hormuz if the US lifted its blockade and ended the war in a proposal that would postpone discussions on Iran’s nuclear program, the Associated Press reported earlier, citing two unnamed regional officials. Later reporting quoted White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt as saying the proposal was “being discussed”.Lebanese president Joseph Aoun said direct talks with Israel sought to end the war on Lebanon and that those who dragged Lebanon into it were the ones committing “treason” – a jab at the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, which claimed several attacks on Israeli targets in south Lebanon on Monday.Iraq’s newly elected president nominated businessman Ali al-Zaidi as the country’s prime minister-designate on Monday, after the country’s leaders yielded to US pressure not to support the bid of a former premier close to Iran.The Coordination Framework – an alliance of Shia factions with varying links to Iran – had initially backed powerbroker Nouri al-Maliki to become the country’s next premier, but Trump’s ultimatum left Iraqi leaders looking elsewhere.The US and Iran clashed at the UN on Monday over Tehran’s nuclear program and its selection to be one of dozens of vice-presidents at a month-long conference to review the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. US official Christopher Yeaw said Iran’s selection was an “affront” to the treaty. Tehran’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, rejected the US statement as “baseless and politically motivated”. Continue reading...
US president says there’s ‘no reason to meet’ Tehran unless they agree never to have nuclear weaponsWelcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle East.Donald Trump has said Iran can telephone if it wants to negotiate an end to the war and that it must agree never to have a nuclear weapon, while Pakistan’s leaders have sought to revive the stalled peace talks between Washington and Tehran.Iran gave the US a new proposal on reopening the strait and ending the war, with nuclear negotiations postponed for a later stage, according to the news site Axios. The US state department and White House did not immediately comment on the Sunday report, which cited an unnamed US official and two sources.Araghchi’s talks with Pakistani officials on Sunday had included “implementing a new legal regime over the strait of Hormuz, receiving compensation, guaranteeing no renewed military aggression by warmongers and lifting the naval blockade”, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency. In the talks with Omani leader Haitham bin Tariq al-Said, Araghchi called for a regional security framework free of outside interference.Araghchi would meet with Putin “in continuation of the diplomatic jihad to advance the country’s interests and amid external threats”, Iran’s envoy in Russia, Kazem Jalali, said on X.Two US air force C-17s carrying security staff, equipment and vehicles used to protect US officials flew out of Pakistan after the latest diplomatic trip was called off, two Pakistani government sources told Reuters on Sunday. Continue reading...
Iranian foreign minister has landed in Islamabad but his ministry says there will be no direct negotiations with the US envoyThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it launched strikes in three areas in southern Lebanon against what it claimed were Hezbollah rocket launchers.The strikes hit the villages of Deir al-Zahrani, Kfar Reman and al-Sama’iya, which are north of where IDF forces are located in southern Lebanon. Continue reading...
White House says Tehran in ‘very weak position’; Iran says two seized ships transferred to its coast; US navy secretary exiting post ‘effective immediately’, says Pentagon‘Impossible’ to reopen strait of Hormuz amid ‘flagrant’ ceasefire breaches, Iran saysWelcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle East.Iran has seized two ships in the strait of Hormuz a day after Donald Trump announced he was indefinitely calling off US attacks, while there is no sign of peace talks restarting.Trump was “satisfied” with the US naval blockade and “understands Iran is in a very weak position”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. The US president had not set a deadline on Iran submitting a peace proposal, she said, after Trump on Tuesday said he was indefinitely extending the ceasefire at the request of mediator Pakistan until Tehran responded to the US’s negotiating positions or until talks were concluded “one way or the other”.The Pentagon announced that the US secretary of the navy, John Phelan, would depart the office “effective immediately”, without providing an explanation for his sudden exit. The US army’s top officer, Gen Randy George, and two other senior officers were removed earlier this month amid the continuing war with Iran.The US-Israeli war against Iran is “starting to weaken Europe”, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told his German counterpart. Erdoğan said: “If we do not address this situation with an approach that prioritises peace, the damage caused by the conflict will be far greater.”Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed a Lebanese journalist, Amal Khalil, and wounded a photographer accompanying her, a senior Lebanese military official and Khalil’s employer said. The death of Khalil, 43, brought the death toll to five people on Wednesday – the deadliest day since a 10-day truce between Israel and Hezbollah was announced on 16 April. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on Khalil’s death.Khalil and freelance photographer Zeinab Faraj were covering developments near the town of al-Tayri when an Israeli strike hit the vehicle in front of them, Reuters reported. They ran into a nearby house that was then also targeted by an Israeli strike, said Lebanon’s health ministry. Lebanese prime minister Nawaf Salam said Israeli targeting of journalists and obstructing relief effort constituted war crimes.Oil prices leapt 4% on Thursday after Iran vowed not to reopen the Hormuz strait amid the US naval blockade despite the truce extension. Around 0025 GMT, the benchmark US oil contract West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rose 4.06% to $96.73 a barrel, while the international oil benchmark Brent North Sea crude climbed 3.62% to $105.63. Both eased back minutes after.Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old schoolboy, were killed in the occupied West Bank after Israeli settlers opened fire near a school amid mounting assaults on education in the territory, witnesses and local officials have said.United Airlines implemented broad-based rises of 15-20% on fares as it sought to offset the surge in petrol prices while protecting profits, executives said. The big US carrier has also cut its 2026 flying capacity by 5%. Continue reading...