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Over 500 Ukrainian drones targeted Russia during the night of May 17, killing 4 and constituting the largest aerial assault in more than a year, hitting refineries and infrastructure.
Donald Trump's historic visit to Beijing — the first by a US president in nearly a decade — unfolded under the shadow of the Iran war, Taiwan tensions, and a rare-earths standoff. With Trump arriving as a relative supplicant and Xi holding firm on four non-negotiable red lines, the summit tested the limits of transactional diplomacy between the world's two superpowers.
Israel struck Beirut's southern suburbs for the first time since the April 17 ceasefire, killing Malek Ballout, operations commander of Hezbollah's Radwan force — an act Netanyahu frames as self-defense, but one that endangers the truce underpinning the Iran-US negotiations.
Zelensky declares a unilateral ceasefire for Victory Day on May 9. Russia violates it 1,820 times, strikes a kindergarten in Sumy killing two, and Kyiv threatens a mirror response during Moscow's parade.
After Donald Trump's public attacks on Pope Leo XIV — who had condemned the Iran war as 'unjust' — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is dispatched to Rome for a Thursday meeting with the pontiff. The first face-to-face meeting between a senior US official and Pope Leo since his election. Rubio, a Catholic, will also meet Meloni, whom Trump attacked after she defended the pope.
Iran launched drones and missiles at ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the ADNOC oil facility in Fujairah, UAE, injuring three Indian nationals—the first direct attack on Emirati soil since the ceasefire took effect in early April. This marks a significant escalation following the announcement of the U.S.-led 'Project Freedom' naval escort operation. Trump responded with threats of obliteration, while the incident raises questions about the trigger for Iran's response and whether American military operations provoked the escalation.
On May 1, 2026, Donald Trump signed an executive order massively expanding US sanctions against Cuba, targeting foreign banks that cooperate with Havana and Cuban officials in the energy, defense and finance sectors. The next day, Trump declared at a private Florida dinner that the US could take control of Cuba 'almost immediately,' citing the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier 'on the way back from Iran.' Cuba's president denounces a 'dangerous and unprecedented level' of US military threats.
The Iran war finally gets a price tag — $25 billion — as Hegseth faces his first congressional grilling, gets accused of lying, and drops a bombshell: North Korea is the real lesson.
Trump says he asked Putin for 'a little bit of a ceasefire' on Victory Day — an offer that Kyiv receives with suspicion and that Europe reads as a Russian communications maneuver.
The Israeli military intercepts the Global Sumud humanitarian flotilla 1,000 kilometers from Gaza while Médecins Sans Frontières documents what it characterizes as deliberate water deprivation—two events that transform humanitarian aid into a contested battlefield.
Iran has submitted a formal proposal: reopen the Strait of Hormuz if Washington lifts its naval blockade — while Trump declares Iran in 'state of collapse' and Merz accuses it of waging war without strategy.
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