Middle East

The Strait of Hormuz remained shut on Friday and Israel traded fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, which the United States and Iran each described as violations of their ceasefire deal ...

Dubai has restricted foreign airlines to just one daily flight to its airports until May 31 due to the Iran crisis, igniting revenue loss fears among Indian carriers that had planned ...

A fragile two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran showed further strain on Friday, a day before they are to negotiate in Pakistan, as Washington accused Tehran of breaching ...

Speakers at an event held on Thursday at the Palestinian Embassy in Nicosia voiced strong opposition to recent Israeli legislation introducing the death penalty for those convicted of terrorism, warning ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial will resume on Sunday, the courts’ spokesperson said on Thursday, hours after Israel lifted a state of emergency imposed over its ...

Russia will see revenue from its biggest single oil tax double to $9 billion in April due to the oil and gas crisis triggered by the U.S. and Israeli attack ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he is seeking direct talks with Beirut, a day after the worst bombardment of the war killed more than 250 people in Lebanon ...

British Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper and José Manuel Albares, Spain’s foreign minister, on Thursday sharply criticised Israel’s latest strikes on Lebanon, warning they risk undermining a fragile ceasefire ...

Israel pounded Lebanon with its heaviest strikes yet on Wednesday, killing hundreds of people and drawing a threat of retaliation from Iran, which suggested it would be “unreasonable” to proceed ...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday its military ships and aircraft will remain around Iran and threatened that the U.S. will start “shooting” again unless Tehran fully complies with ...

Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month, killing more than 250 people on Wednesday, as the Iran-aligned group resumed rocket attacks ...

Israel launched its heaviest bombardment of Lebanon since the start of its conflict with Hezbollah on Wednesday, as regional tensions deepened despite a fragile ceasefire between Tehran and Washington, and ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday there was still a lot of work to do to reopen the Strait of Hormuz following the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, speaking ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-week ceasefire with Iran is unlikely to provide immediate relief to the global aviation industry as it reels from its worst crisis in years, ...

Relief over a truce between the United States and Iran gave way on Wednesday to alarm that fighting was still raging across the region, as Israel launched its biggest attacks ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said about 15 countries were planning to facilitate the resumption of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil supply ...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah halted fire on northern Israel and on Israeli troops in Lebanon in the early hours of Wednesday as part of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire announced earlier, ...

A notice to airmen (Notam) has been issued regarding a planned Russian naval exercise which is to take place off the coast of Cyprus, between the island’s east coast ...

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States will help with the buildup of shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump on Tuesday agreed to a two-week ceasefire ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is aware of Pakistan’s proposal for a two-week extension to a deadline he imposed on Iran, and a response will come, White House press ...

Russian satellites have made dozens of detailed imagery surveys of military facilities and critical sites across the Middle East to help Iran strike U.S. forces and other targets, according ...

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight” as Iran showed no sign of complying with his ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz by ...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday there were a huge number of requests for Russian energy from a range of different places amid a grave global energy crisis that was shaking ...

Some Western and Saudi firms in Riyadh have extended work-from-home advisories this week, five people familiar with the matter ​said, amid concern over a looming US-imposed deadline for Iran ‌to ...