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Published On 1 May 2026

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1 May 2026 - 23:59
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Smoke rises in the town of Habboush in southern Lebanon, where Israeli attacks killed at least eight people on Friday [Stringer/Reuters]
1 May 2026 - 23:45
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Here’s what happened today

  • Trump said he is “not satisfied” with Iran’s latest proposal and that the US is “not going to leave” the war “early”.
  • Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said Tehran remains open to diplomacy if Washington stops its “expansionist approach” and “threatening rhetoric”.
  • Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says the ceasefire is only allowing Israel to “escalate its aggression” as Israeli attacks kill at least 12 people in southern Lebanon.
  • The White House told Congress that hostilities with Iran have been “terminated” as a 60-day deadline for Trump to seek authorisation for the war from Congress passed on Friday.
  • Iran’s IRGC says it will make Hormuz waters a “source of security, prosperity” and exert “control over nearly 2,000km [1,243 miles] of Iran’s coastline” in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been transferred from prison to a hospital due to her deteriorating health.
  • Fourteen IRGC members were killed when unexploded ordnance detonated in the northwestern Zanjan province, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported.
1 May 2026 - 23:30
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Houthi

Israeli military says it shot down two ‘suspicious aerial targets’

In an update on X, the Israeli military says its air force “intercepted two additional suspicious aerial targets” before they crossed into Israeli territory after sirens sounded in northern Israel, warning of the “infiltration of a hostile aircraft”.

Israeli forces also “launched interceptors” following alerts of “rocket fire in the Kiryat Shmona area”, the military said.

“The interception results are being examined, and the incident is under investigation.”

1 May 2026 - 23:15
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Russia says it is ready to help end the war against Iran: Fars

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told his Iranian counterpart that Russia is ready to provide any assistance to end the war against Iran and establish peace in the region, Fars News Agency reported.

The statement was made during a telephone conversation between the two foreign ministers.

1 May 2026 - 23:00
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Iran’s Araghchi congratulates Iraq’s PM-designate

Iran’s top diplomat has congratulated Ali al-Zaidi, who has been named as the prime ministerial candidate by the governing Shia bloc.

Al-Zaidi, a political newcomer who has never held a government position, will have to form a government within 30 days at a time Iraq is facing an unprecedented economic and security crisis amid the Iran war. The government formation was delayed for months due to internal divisions and amid US and Iranian influence.

Abbas Araghchi also said he welcomed Iraq’s “selection of the framework for appointing the prime minister” and wished al-Zaidi “success in forming the government and serving the Iraqi people”.

“Iran affirms its respect for Iraq’s sovereignty and its support for political stability, development, and enhancing cooperation in a manner that serves the interests of both peoples,” Araghchi added.

Trump has also welcomed the nomination of al-Zaidi, which came after Washington said it would suspend cooperation with Iraqi security agencies, and issued a strongly worded warning against any government influenced by Iran-linked figures and armed factions.

1 May 2026 - 22:50
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Hezbollah launches nine attacks amid ongoing Israeli strikes on Lebanon

By Obaida Hitto

Reporting from Tyre,Lebanon

Hezbollah continues to demonstrate that it is ready to fight. While a ceasefire is ongoing, both Israel and Hezbollah continue to exchange fire. On Friday, Hezbollah announced that it carried out nine different operations targeting Israeli troops, some of them inside Lebanese territory, and other military operations across the Blue Line into northern Israel.

Israel is concerned about these attacks, and that is why it says it is continuing to carry out military operations in Lebanon, including air strikes, artillery strikes and demolitions in the areas it occupies.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Hezbollah’s biggest and strongest political ally, responded on Friday to a statement released by the US Embassy in Beirut calling for talks between the Lebanese president, the Israeli prime minister and President Trump in Washington. Berri said there was no reason to go forward with those kinds of talks as long as Lebanon was still under fire. He dismissed the current ceasefire as irrelevant, saying Israel had actually increased its attacks on Lebanon.

There has been significant discussion among Lebanese politicians and analysts about whether this ceasefire might fall through and whether the potential for talks to move forward may also collapse.

1 May 2026 - 22:30
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Houthi

One person killed, seven wounded in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s Health Ministry is reporting that one person has been killed and seven injured in an Israeli raid on Ain Baal in the Tyre district, according to NNA.

Three women were among those injured, NNA added.

To read more about Israeli attacks on Lebanon, read here.

1 May 2026 - 22:29
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Houthi

US approves military sales of more than $8.6bn to Middle East allies

The ⁠US State Department said on Friday it ⁠was approving military sales ⁠worth more than $8.6bn to Middle Eastern ‌allies Israel, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

The announcement comes as the US ⁠and Israel’s war ⁠against Iran marked nine weeks since its ⁠start and more ⁠than three ⁠weeks since a fragile ceasefire in the Iran ‌war came into effect.

US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he was holding talks with the Iranians by phone. He rejected a new proposal by Tehran, saying he is not sure “we’re going to get to a deal” to end the war.

1 May 2026 - 22:15
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US blockade cost Iran $4.8bn in lost oil revenue: Axios report

The US Defense Department estimates Iran has been denied nearly $5bn in oil revenue since the blockade of the Gulf of Oman began on April 13, according to an Axios report citing Pentagon officials.

Since then, the US military has redirected more than 40 vessels carrying Iranian oil and other goods. Some 31 tankers laden with 53 million barrels of Iranian oil are now stuck in the Gulf, with a combined value of at least $4.8bn. Two ships have been seized.

Unable to load oil onto new tankers as on-land storage facilities reach capacity, Iran has begun using older tankers as floating storage, while some are taking longer, costlier routes to deliver oil to China to avoid US interdiction.

Analysts warn Iran may be running out of options. “They’re probably several weeks, or perhaps as much as a month, away from running out of storage,” Gregory Brew of the Eurasia Group told Axios.

Tanker tracker Samir Madani said Iranian tankers could eventually attempt a mass overnight “Great Escape” once storage near the Pakistani border builds up further.

Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez said the blockade was “inflicting a devastating blow to the Iranian regime’s ability to fund terrorism and regional destabilisation”.

Al Jazeera could not independently verify the figures quoted by Axios.

1 May 2026 - 22:00
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Analysis

Farmers in developing countries will be most affected by fertiliser crisis

A serious fertiliser crisis is certainly on the horizon, as food prices have already begun to increase and could reach the levels seen after the Russia-Ukraine war began, says commodities consultant Kona Haque.

At that point, “food prices were quite high, and we saw quite high levels of food inflation,” Haque told Al Jazeera.

“But from a farmer’s perspective, the high … grain prices cushion the impact of the high fertiliser prices,” she said, adding: “Today, we have a situation where fertiliser prices are high, but the crop prices are low, which means the farmers’ margins are being squeezed.”

The indirect impact of this is that “they’re going to want to cut back on costs, which means cutting back on fertiliser usage”, the consultant said.

This will have the most impact on poorer farmers, particularly those in Africa and Asia, “where so much of the fertiliser costs take up most of their income”.

“I think that’s going to be a serious issue in terms of crop yields around the world, but mostly in developing countries,” Haque said.

While government subsidies will no doubt be introduced to try to help farmers “build some immunity to the high costs … at the end of the day, if there’s a shortage of fertiliser, they can’t just miraculously make that become available”, she added.

“There’s a bit of a bidding war right now on fertilisers, which are about 80 percent higher than they were before February.”

1 May 2026 - 21:47
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Houthi

US to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany: Pentagon official

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the withdrawal of 5,000 American troops from Germany, the Pentagon said on Friday, in an apparent US rebuke to the close NATO ally amid a widening rift between President Donald Trump and Europe over the Iran war.

Trump threatened the drawdown days ago after a bitter exchange with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who accused the Iranian government of “humiliating” the United States in stalled peace talks to end the two-month-old war.

Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the withdrawal was expected to be completed over the next six to 12 months, Reuters reported.

1 May 2026 - 21:45
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WATCH: Palestinian football boss refuses Israeli handshake at FIFA event

1 May 2026 - 21:30
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ANALYSIS

Future US-Iran agreement should go to UN: Former Pakistani ambassador

Former Pakistani Ambassador to the UN Munir Akram says the UN, currently sidelined from US-Iran mediation efforts, should play a role in validating any future agreement reached between the two states.

“The conflict is being discussed outside the framework of the UN system, and the UN seems sort of helpless to intervene effectively on this issue,” Akram told Al Jazeera. “I think that eventually, once an agreement is reached on a ceasefire or on the nuclear issue, this will have to go to the UN, to the Security Council as did the JCPOA, for legitimisation.”

“I think that will be a way of restoring strength and belief in the multilateral system,” he added.

1 May 2026 - 21:25
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Houthi

Israeli attacks kill 12 in southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health has said that the death toll from an Israeli raid on the town of Habboush in the Nabatieh area has now risen to eight, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

The people who were killed included a child and two women.

Twenty-one people were also wounded, including two children and a woman, the ministry said.

More Israeli attacks on the town of Zrarieh in the Sidon district killed 4 people, including two women, and wounded four, NNA also reported.

1 May 2026 - 21:15
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Activists on Gaza aid flotilla detained by Israel disembark in Crete

Dozens of activists on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, which was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters off Crete, have disembarked, an AFP journalist saw.

Escorted by Greek coastguards, some 175 activists were taken in four buses to a town whose name was not disclosed by the authorities.

While Israel’s Foreign Ministry earlier put the number at about 175 activists, the organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla said there were 211 activists.

“In coordination with the Greek government, the individuals transferred from the flotilla vessels to the Israeli vessel will be disembarked on a Greek beach in the coming hours,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote on social media on Thursday, thanking Greece “for its willingness to receive the flotilla participants”.

Several European governments with nationals among those arrested have called on Israel to free the activists and called its action a flagrant contravention of international law.

But the US has backed Israeli authorities, calling the flotilla a “stunt”.

“The United States expects all our allies … to take decisive action against this meaningless political stunt by denying port access, docking, departure and refueling to vessels participating in the flotilla,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said.

Initially made up of more than 50 boats, the flotilla’s aim, according to the organisers, was to break the blockade of Gaza and bring humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian territory. Gaza has been facing a dire shortage of food due to Israeli curbs on the entry of aid into the territory, which lies in ruins after more than two years of Israeli bombardment.

Gaza has been under Israeli sea, air and land blockade since 2007. Though Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, it continues its blockade on Gaza, deciding what goes in and out of the enclave – home to 2.3 million Palestinians.

Activists are trying to break this siege.

1 May 2026 - 21:01
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Houthi

Trump says ‘not going to leave’ Iran conflict early

Continuing his remarks in Florida, Trump said he will not end the conflict with Iran “early”, without achieving US objectives.

“We’re not going to leave early and have this kind of problem arise in three more years,” Trump said.

1 May 2026 - 21:00
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If you’re just joining us

Let’s bring you up to speed:

  • US President Donald Trump says he is ‘not satisfied’ with the latest Iranian proposal for talks on the Iran war, while Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran was ready for diplomacy if the United States changes its approach.
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has called for an economic battle against the country’s “enemies”, urging Iranians to prioritise “the consumption of domestically manufactured goods”, adding that “the owners of damaged businesses should avoid, as much as possible, layoffs and separation of their workforce”.
  • Iran’s IRGC Navy command released a statement saying it will enforce “new rules” over waters near Iran’s coast in the Arabian Sea and the Strait of Hormuz to make them a “source of security and prosperity for the region”.
  • A new Washington Post-ABC-Ipsos poll has found that 61 percent of people in the US believe that the decision to take military action against Iran was a mistake due to the war’s effect on the global economy.
  • The White House has officially told Congress that hostilities with Iran have been “terminated” despite the presence of US armed forces in the Middle East region. The announcement came as President Donald Trump called the War Powers Resolution, under which a US president is required to seek authorisation from Congress within 60 days, “unconstitutional”.
  • Israel has carried out several air strikes on southern Lebanon that killed at least 10 people.
1 May 2026 - 20:53
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Houthi

Trump says Iran ‘not coming through with the kind of deal’ US wants

The US president has delivered more remarks on the situation with Iran.

Speaking at The Villages Charter School in Florida, Trump said: “They’re not coming through with the kind of deal that we have to have, and we’re going to get this thing done properly.”

We’ll bring you more of his remarks shortly.

1 May 2026 - 20:45
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Nuclear weapons are Trump’s ‘absolute red line’

By Mike Hanna

Reporting from Washington, DC

Trump hasn’t set out or explained publicly what his full list of demands is for Iran, but the one thing we do know – because he’s repeated it very often – is that Iran must give up all hope of achieving any form of nuclearised, weaponised status.

Trump is completely against suggestions there be a moratorium on Iran’s nuclear development, saying Iran must instead pledge to never go the way of developing a nuclear weapon. That is his absolute red line, the point he believes to be the very basis of his position.

There are other elements that we know too – that the Strait of Hormuz be open to shipping with no tariffs or tolls being charged, but the full list of demands Trump is making of Iran is very much a closed book, at least to the outside world.

1 May 2026 - 20:30
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Analysis

Trump likely to give Iranians a bit more time before resuming military force

Trump is likely to follow up on his threat to Iran that, if it isn’t willing to make a deal, then the US will return to using military force, says General Mark Kimmitt, former US assistant secretary of state.

“I think he [Trump] will give the Iranians a bit of time,” Kimmitt told Al Jazeera.

The Iranians sent a proposal today that Trump rejected, said Kimmitt, suggesting that it’s wise to wait until a couple more proposals have been put on the table before reaching any sort of conclusion.

“The key issue he wants to see from the Iranians is a date certain when to start the negotiations,” said Kimmitt.

However, if Iran continues to say that it isn’t willing to talk about its nuclear capability, Trump will “eventually say…let’s go back to war until they are serious”, he added.

Even the US has acknowledged that Iran still retains between 40-60 percent of its drone and missile capabilities, said Kimmitt, though it no longer has its air defence system.

This leaves “Iran vulnerable to continued air attacks,” so if the US and Iran were to resume the conflict, “I think we’d see pretty much Chapter Two that looked very much like Chapter One, which we saw in March,” said Kimmitt.