Netanyahu says Oct. 7 taught him buffer zones must be in enemy territory, tells Erdogan to ‘calm down’,  sidesteps a question on soaring food prices and says Iran will not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons 

Four days after Washington-Tehran talks were frozen, delegations are set to meet separately with Qatari and Pakistani mediators; Iran is demanding progress on frozen funds, Lebanon and Strait of Hormuz guarantees

Itay Epstein urges Security Council action against settlements and Israeli forces, prompting Danny Danon to accuse the UN of platforming anti-Israel voices

State media said the attackers fled after opening fire outside the IRGC members’ home in Kurdish-majority Kermanshah, with no group immediately claiming responsibility

Capt. Omri Tal’s mother says she 'felt like I died' after seeing the damage to the monument honoring her son, who was killed in the 2014 Gaza war; city crews quickly remove the graffiti

Disputes over new talks, the Strait of Hormuz and fighting in Lebanon show how fragile the interim agreement remains as both sides face less than 60 days to reach a permanent accord

While Turkey and Azerbaijan sharply condemned the Israeli government’s move, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Yerevan sees no need to respond and will not turn the genocide into a political weapon

Before vanishing in Laos, Masanobu Tsuji helped engineer Japan’s stunning conquest of Malaya and Singapore, fled Allied war-crimes prosecutors, rewrote his own legend in best-selling books and won a seat in parliament