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Although negotiators in Washington extended the April-17 truce for another 45 days on 15 May 2026, both Israel and Hezbollah resumed lethal cross-border attacks over the weekend, signalling the ceasefire is largely nominal.
Washington formally dismissed Tehran’s 18 May 2026 counter-proposal conveyed via Pakistan, prompting President Trump to set a rapid deadline and prepare military options while the cease-fire unravels.
Following U.S.-brokered talks in Washington on 14–15 May 2026, Israel and Lebanon agreed to prolong the 17 April truce by 45 days, yet within hours Israeli jets struck over twenty Lebanese villages and Hezbollah retaliated with drones and rockets.
In the pre-dawn hours of 17 May 2026, Ukrainian forces launched a record multi-hundred-drone strike that pierced Russia’s dense capital-area air defenses for the first time, killing four people and forcing repeated shutdowns of Moscow airports.
Returning from Beijing on 15-16 May 2026, President Trump publicly withheld approval of a pending US$14 billion weapons package for Taiwan, labeling the sale a “very good negotiating chip” that will depend on China’s response.
On 17 May 2026 Kyiv confirmed its drones pierced the Moscow region’s densest air-defense belt, striking fuel and tech facilities over 500 km from Ukraine and leading President Zelensky to press Europe to front-seat forthcoming peace talks and bankroll a continent-wide anti-missile shield.
In the early hours of 17 May 2026 Kyiv sent its largest-ever wave of drones—well over a thousand—to targets 500 km inside Russia, setting fires at an oil refinery, two depots and the Angstrem microchip plant while Russian authorities reported four deaths and claimed hundreds of interceptions.
After a week in which Russia fired 3,170 drones, 1,300 glide bombs and 74 missiles that killed 52 civilians, Kyiv secured French, British and German agreement to help build a shared air- and missile-defence architecture and readied a 21st EU sanctions round cutting off Russian weapons components.
Returning from his 15-16 May 2026 talks with Xi Jinping, President Trump said he made "no commitment" on the delayed $14 billion U.S. weapons package for Taiwan and publicly urged Taipei not to declare independence, reversing months of hawkish rhetoric.
In a pre-dawn 16 May 2026 raid, combined U.S. special operators and Nigerian troops killed ISIS deputy leader Abu-Bilal al-Minuki at his compound near Metele, Borno State, ending his control of the group’s overseas networks.
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