Middle East

The United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on Saturday, plunging the Middle East into a new conflict that President Donald Trump said would end a security threat to ...

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Saturday said he would not accept anyone dragging “the country into adventures that threaten its security and unity”, in an indirect message to the ...

President Donald Trump expressed disappointment about U.S. negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and warned that “sometimes you have to use force,” amid a massive military presence in ...

The United States and Iran made progress in talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme on Thursday, mediator Oman said, but hours of negotiation ended with no sign of a breakthrough ...

The US will permit non-emergency government personnel and family members to leave Israel over safety risks, the US Embassy in Jerusalem said on Friday, amid growing concerns about the risk ...

The United States and Iran could reach a framework for a deal if Washington separates “nuclear and non-nuclear issues”, a senior Iranian official told Reuters, adding that remaining gaps need ...

Iran and the U.S. hold the latest round of talks in Geneva on Thursday aimed at resolving their longstanding nuclear dispute and averting new U.S. strikes on Iran ...

Iranian gas supplies have resumed to Iraq with a rate of 7 million cubic feet per day, the spokesperson for the Iraqi electricity ministry said on Wednesday. Iraq reported the halt ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump still preferred a diplomatic solution with Iran and that he hoped Iranians took that seriously in their ...

The State Department is pulling out non-essential government personnel and their eligible family members from the U.S. embassy in Beirut, a senior State Department official said on Monday, amid ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Cyprus is part of his plans to create a “hexagon of alliances” for Israel in the region. “We will create an entire ...

Iran and the United States have differing views over the scope and mechanism to lift sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme, a senior Iranian official ...

Students held protests at several Iranian universities at the start of a new semester on Saturday, some clashing with pro-government groups, according to local news agencies and posts on social ...

At least ten people were killed and 50 wounded in Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, two security sources told Reuters, after the Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah ...

Iran’s foreign minister said on Friday he expected to have a draft counterproposal ready within days following nuclear talks with the United States this week, while U.S. President ...

More than 75,000 Palestinians were killed in the first 15 months of Israel’s military assault in Gaza, a figure far higher than the 49,000 deaths local health officials announced at the time, ...

President Donald Trump warned Iran it must make a deal over its nuclear program or “really bad things” will happen, and set a deadline of 10 to 15 days, drawing a threat ...

Russia warned against an “unprecedented escalation of tension” around Iran on Thursday and urged restraint amid a U.S. military build-up in the region that a senior American official said ...

Israeli forces, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups have both committed serious violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza and carried out atrocity crimes, a U.N. report published on ...

Iranians have returned to the streets this week to mourn those killed by security forces during last month’s anti-government demonstrations, sparking some new crackdowns in an echo of the 1979 ...

As the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan began in Gaza on Wednesday, Palestinians headed to the shattered ruins of mosques or to makeshift prayer spaces made of tarpaulins and wood, ...

The departure of the chief executive of Dubai port giant DP World is the biggest fallout in the Middle East from U.S. Department of Justice documents which show that ...

Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett warned on Tuesday that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is positioning Turkey as a major strategic threat to Israel, describing Ankara as “the new Iran”. Speaking ...

Iran and the United States reached an understanding on the main “guiding principles” in a second round of indirect talks over their nuclear dispute on Tuesday, but that does not ...