Day: January 21, 2026

Options said to include actions aimed at toppling regime; Iran says it would fight back ‘with everything we have’; Amnesty warns Iran plans to execute protester on Wednesday By ToI Staff and AgenciesToday, 10:06 am A US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron lands at an unnamed base in the Middle East, January 18, 2026 (CENTCOM/X) US President Donald Trump is continuing to push his aides to devise what he calls “decisive” military options against Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, days after the American leader called off strikes against the Islamic Republic. Citing US officials, the report …

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 Jan 21, 2026, 10:41 AM (GMT+2) IDF: A short while ago, in response to Hezbollah’s repeated violations of the ceasefire understandings, the IDF struck a Hezbollah terrorist in the Bourj el-Chamali area in southern Lebanon.

“Anything ever happens, the whole country is going to get blown up,” Trump said and added, “I would absolutely hit them so hard. But I have very firm instructions.” US President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet in the situation room during US strikes on Iran, June 22, 2025.(photo credit: WHITE HOUSE) ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF JANUARY 21, 2026 07:20Updated: JANUARY 21, 2026 11:43 US President Donald Trump assured on Tuesday that if Iran attempts to assassinate him, he would make the “order to wipe it off the face of this Earth.” Trump’s comments were made during an interview with NewsNation‘s Katie Pavlich Tonight, which marked …

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Tehran’s top diplomat posts video saying anti-regime protests were a ‘terror operation’ by Mossad; Israeli president says regime in ‘no position to lecture others on morality’ By AFP and ToI Staff20 January 2026, 1:55 pm Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (left) attends a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein, in Tehran, Iran, on January 18, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP); President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony marking the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, on December 14, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) PARIS, France — Iran’s foreign minister hit out at the World Economic Forum …

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Senior Hamas figures are reportedly weighing a coordinated departure from Gaza following the rollout of Phase II of Donald Trump’s plan, according to sources cited by Asharq al-Awsat. A Hamas terrorist in the Gaza Strip. February 4, 2025.(photo credit: Ali Hassan/Flash90)ByJAMES GENN  JANUARY 20, 2026 13:53Updated: JANUARY 20, 2026 14:52 Senior leaders of the Hamas terror group are preparing a “safe exit” from the Gaza Strip, sources within the terror group revealed to Saudi outlet Asharq al-Awsat on Tuesday. This comes after the US announced the start of Phase II of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, which calls for establishing a technocratic government to administer …

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“We have a certain argument with our friends in the United States over the composition of the executive board that will oversee the processes in Gaza,” the Israeli prime minister said. Israeli soldiers inside the Gaza Strip, seen from the Israeli side of the border, Jan. 15, 2026. Photo by Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90. (Jan. 19, 2026 / JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that there would be no Turkish or Qatari troops deployed to Gaza as part of Phase 2 of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan. Speaking at a Knesset debate on “violence and crime in the Arab …

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