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A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the weekend. Here’s today’s news:
U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Saturday said that in “some ways” the United States has “decisively won” the Iran war. Tara Suter reports for The Hill.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi yesterday said Iran has “unfinished jobs” too and warned against the United States renewing attacks. Araghchi urged the United States to accept Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days as the deal is still on the table. Araghchi added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “driving America into another war to stay out of jail, whatever the consequences for Israel.” Mira Bhakta reports for The Hill; Reuters reports.
An attack on a Yemeni government military training camp in Yemen’s Shabwa province by the Iran-aligned Houthis today killed at least 18 people, government officials and medical sources told Reuters. The sources said the attack was carried out using three ballistic missiles and targeted soldiers during a morning training. Mohammed Ghobari reports.
The Egyptian National Defense Council, chaired by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, yesterday announced “all possible forms of support” to enable Saudi Arabia to defend its security. Araghchi later in the day said he discussed “the latest regional developments” with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty. Samy Magdy reports for AP News.
U.S. CENTCOM Com. Adm. Brad Cooper on Friday said Iran-backed militias in the region have been sending money back to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to relieve the economic pressure of the Iran war. Cooper said the U.S. naval blockade has cost Iran $25 billion in lost revenue and added that CENTCOM and the U.S. Treasury Department in recent weeks managed to freeze $350 million that Iran held in cryptocurrency. Barak Ravid reports for Axios.
Masked Israeli settlers on Saturday attacked Palestinians and European diplomats in the West Bank town of Taybeh who were participating in the annual olive harvest. Taybeh Mayor Suleiman Khourieh said the extremists beat a Palestinian teenager, pushed an older woman, and smashed the window of a Belgian diplomatic vehicle, and that the violence “shows nobody is protected- not Palestinians, not journalists, and not diplomats.” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Riley Barnes, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch, and other U.S. diplomats yesterday visited Taybeh. Israeli police today said they arrested 10 suspects as part of an investigation into violent incidents in the West Bank over the weekend. Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon report for the New York Times; Ali Sawafta and Steven Scheer report for Reuters; Alexander Cornwell and Lili Bayer report for Reuters.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today said Ukraine received no advance warning from its partners of a Russian attack overnight that killed 3 people. Russia launched one of its broadest air assaults in months, cutting power to more than half a million households as more than 10 energy facilities were damaged. Zelenskyy yesterday announced that the United States had resumed providing Ukraine critical intelligence to help it defend against Russian missile strikes, while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio today denied that the United States had paused some intelligence sharing with Ukraine. Olena Harmash reports for Reuters; Dan Peleschuk and Michael Derby report for Reuters; Gram Slattery reports for Reuters.
Ukraine yesterday launched the biggest attack on Russian city St. Petersburg since the start of the war, killing one person and injuring another five, according to St. Petersburg Gov. Alexander Beglov. The strikes hit St. Petersburg’s oil infrastructure and the city’s airport temporarily suspended its services. Milàn Czerny reports for the Wall Street Journal.