{"id":411515,"date":"2026-04-26T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/411515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:50:07","slug":"war-in-the-middle-east-latest-developments-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/411515\/","title":{"rendered":"War in the Middle East: latest developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The latest developments in the Middle East war:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8211; Trump says Washington shooting will not stop Iran war &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">US President Donald Trump said a shooting at a Washington media dinner on Saturday would not divert him from the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not going to deter me from winning the war in Iran. I don&#8217;t know if that had anything to do with it, I really don&#8217;t think so, based on what we know,&#8221; Trump told reporters at the White House after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8211; Iran executes accused militant &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Iran on Sunday executed a man convicted of membership in the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl and involvement in attacks on security forces in the southeast, the judiciary said. On Saturday it announced the execution of a man accused of passing intelligence to Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8211; Israel strikes southern Lebanon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lebanese state media reported a series of new Israeli strikes in at least four different locations in the country&#8217;s south late Saturday, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to attack Hezbollah following alleged ceasefire breaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Attacks earlier in the day reportedly killed six people, despite a recently extended ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8211; Iran FM back to Pakistan &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With US-Iran peace talks called off, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will head back to Pakistan after visiting Oman, state media reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The IRNA news agency, citing Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry, reported that Araghchi, who had left Islamabad earlier in the day, &#8220;is scheduled to visit Pakistan again after completing his trip to Oman and before travelling to Russia&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Araghchi said earlier it remained to be seen whether the United States was &#8220;truly serious about diplomacy&#8221; amidst doubts over whether the two sides will hold new talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8211; Pakistan &#8216;committed&#8217; to role &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he had spoken by phone with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian after US-Iran peace talks in Islamabad were called off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Pakistan remains committed to serve as an honest and sincere facilitator &#8211; working tirelessly to advance durable peace and lasting stability in the region,&#8221; Sharif wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8211; Trump cancels envoys&#8217; Pakistan trip &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">US President Donald Trump ordered his envoys not to travel to Pakistan for talks with Iranian officials on ending the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a post on his Truth Social platform, he said: &#8220;There is tremendous infighting and confusion within their &#8216;leadership.&#8217; Nobody knows who is in charge, including them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trump said the move did not mean a restart of the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">burs\/tw\/ach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest developments in the Middle East war: &#8211; Trump says Washington shooting will not stop Iran war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,87,117780,43,194362,40,38,41,39,627,194361],"class_list":["post-411515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-war","tag-news","tag-prime-minister-shehbaz-sharif","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trump","tag-washington-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}