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  US President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, US, September 9, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/Evan Vucci)  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called US President Trump twice on Thursday and urged him to launch strikes against the Houthis, Axios reported, citing two US officials. Trump rejected the request, and US officials said the administration does not intend to take direct military action against the Houthis at this time, the report said. Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

  US President Donald Trump speaks while hosting a dinner in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 2, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/EVELYN HOCKSTEIN) US President Donald Trump said he did not regret going to war against Iran despite the impact the conflict may have on the November US midterm elections. "I don't believe in the word 'regret.' You can always question yourself a little bit," Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham when asked if he regretted the Iran war due to the impact it may have on the elections. "If I had it do again, I would do exactly as I did," Trump said in the interview broadcast on Thursday on The Ingraham Angle show.

  The commander of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade who was reportedly killed in an IDF strike September 11, 2026. (photo credit: ARAB MEDIA) A Thursday overnight Israeli Air Force strike in Khan Yunis killed the commander of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade, Muhammad Yazouri, the IDF announced on Friday. The IDF stated that, before becoming the commander of the brigade, Yazouri had been Deputy Commander of the Khan Younis Brigade, Commander of the Combat Support Battalion, and Head of the Brigade’s Intelligence Department. The strike targeted a vehicle in the Hamad neighborhood, north of Khan Yunis, after which a residential apartment on the first floor of Tower M caught fire, Arab media reported.

  Incoming commander of the IDF Military Intelligence Shlomi Binder speaks during a replacing ceremony held at the IDF Intelligence Command headquarters in Glilot, August 21, 2024. (photo credit: TOMER NEUBERG/FLASH90) Head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder said he did not speak out against Donald Trump's plan for a US takeover of the Gaza Strip and confirmed that he had spoken with Defense Minister Israel Katz on the matter on Friday. "I made it clear that I did not speak out against the Trump plan and that the IDF and I, too, are subordinate to the political echelon and will follow its instructions," he said. "By virtue of my role, I presented the possible implications of the plan, the enemy's view from a security perspective, and recommendations for offensive activity accordingly."

  MOHAMMAD DAHLAN, leader of Fatah’s Democratic Reform faction, has called for Palestinians to put past divisions aside and build a political system in which elections transfer power, and institutions are ‘greater than individuals.’ (photo credit: REUTERS) Fatah Reform Democratic faction leader Mohammed Dahlan rejected allegations made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night that the exiled Palestinian politician was behind a Haaretz report accusing Netanyahu of ignoring a warning from the United Arab Emirates ahead of the October 7 attack, FRD spokesperson Dimitri Diliani told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Netanyahu, who has also announced plans to sue Haaretz for libel in addition to the report’s author, Shlomi Eldar, claimed that Emirati-based Dahlan was behind the “false report.” Dahlan, according to claims published by Likud , “needs a weak left-wing government of Eisenkot, Yair Golan, Lieberman, and the Arab parties” so that he can seize control of the G...

  Defense Minister Israel Katz at Jerusalem City Hall, December 15, 2025. (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90) Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened to set Iran back decades if the Islamic regime attacked Israel in a Rosh Hashanah message to Iranian civilians on Thursday. Katz threatened to attack Iranian energy infrastructure if regime leadership decided to strike Israel.  "Any attack on Israel for any reason and anywhere will be met with a powerful response," he said, "which will inflict severe damage on Iran that it has not yet suffered to this day, including on its central energy facilities , which provide resources and capabilities for the Iranian war and terror system and for harming the citizens of the State of Israel."