Kombos speaks with Iran’s Araghchi
Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday spoke on the phone with his Iranian counterpart about the current crisis in the Persian Gulf.
Cyprus’ chief diplomat later posted on X: “Held ...
Drone strike near Suez Canal in Egypt raises new security threat in widening war
A drone strike on gas vessels in Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta signalled a potential new front in the U.S.-Iran war, raising the prospect of threats to ...
US launches fresh strikes on Iran as regional war widens
The U.S. carried out fresh strikes in Iran on Wednesday, the U.S. military said, further intensifying a five-month-old war that was already expanding beyond its main fronts to ...
Trump and Netanyahu explored all Iran options including attack
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed all possible options for curbing Iran’s nuclear programme during their meeting at the White House, including diplomacy, economic pressure ...
US, Saudi hit Iran’s allies in Iraq; Trump vows to punish Iran for firing at troops
The United States and Saudi Arabia jointly struck Iran-backed groups in Iraq on Wednesday, and President Donald Trump vowed to “beat the fucking shit” out of Iran for firing on ...
Iran will halt attacks as long as US maintains pause, Iranian source says after Trump calls off strikes
Iran will halt its own attacks as long as the United States maintains its latest pause on air strikes, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday, after President Donald ...
Iran war spreads to Red Sea and Caspian, Gulf quiet as US forgoes strikes
The Iran war broadened over the weekend despite a pause in U.S. strikes, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi oil installations along the Red Sea coast and Iran ...
Missiles targeting Saudi oil refineries shot down, sources say
Air defence systems in Saudi Arabia intercepted two ballistic missiles from Yemen on Saturday targeting oil refineries in Yanbu on the Red Sea, Greek security sources told Reuters, a day ...
Kremlin silent on claims Russia helped Iran target CIA sites
The Kremlin on Thursday declined to comment on a Reuters report that US intelligence analysts were investigating whether Russia assisted Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf by ...
Houthis attack Saudi oil tankers, threatening global supply crisis
The Iranian-aligned Houthis said on Thursday they struck two Saudi oil tankers as part of a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, threatening to create a second chokepoint on global oil ...
Rubio says Iran ‘not serious’ about talks as oil routes face disruption
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the United States is still willing to negotiate an end to the Iran crisis but Tehran is not serious about ...
Trump warns Iran strike on nuclear site could come soon
US President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the United States could strike a heavily fortified Iranian nuclear site “very soon”, while tensions in the Red Sea intensified after Yemen’...
Iranian forces target Bahrain and Kuwait after US hits Iran’s south
U.S. forces bombed Iran’s south and west after President Donald Trump said Tehran would pay dearly for the deaths of American soldiers, while Iran targeted U.S. sites ...
Lebanese army deploys in southern town after Israeli withdrawal, official says
Lebanese army troops began deploying in the southern Lebanese town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh on Tuesday after Israeli forces withdrew from the area, a senior Lebanese security official said, in line ...
Oil prices ease as mediators propose US-Iran ceasefire
Oil prices fell on Tuesday, with markets weighing reports of mediation efforts between the U.S. and Iran against an exchange of fresh attacks between the two and threats of ...
US strikes Iran for ninth day; Iran says two oil tankers in Strait of Hormuz exploded and immobilised
U.S. forces hit Iran for a ninth consecutive day on Monday as concerns grew over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran said two oil tankers had exploded ...
Jordan denies evacuation order for port of Aqaba
Jordan said no order was issued to evacuate Aqaba airport or port on Sunday after the US embassy in Amman reported that both locations had been cleared due to a “...
Israel to receive more US refuelling planes as Iran attacks intensify
Israel is preparing to receive more US refuelling aircraft, an Israeli military official said on Sunday, as attacks launched by the United States and Iran have escalated over the past ...
US renews strikes on Iran after two military personnel killed by Iranian attack
The U.S. said it had completed an eighth straight night of attacks against Iran after earlier announcing that two U.S. military personnel were killed in Jordan and another ...
US and Iran each attack infrastructure in risky escalation
The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran on Friday and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, as the warring foes risked further ...
Iran, US escalate in Gulf but release of American signals path to climb down
Iran and the United States exchanged intensified fire on Thursday in a week-long escalation that has all but torn up last month’s truce, but Iran’s release of a ...
Iran warns Trump against striking infrastructure, calls Strait of Hormuz a ‘red line’
Iran said on Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz was an inviolable “red line”, warning that if U.S. President Donald Trump carried out his threat to attack Iran’s ...
US launches multiple strikes on Iran, which retaliates against US targets in region
The U.S. launched two waves of attacks on Iran’s coastal defenses and missile sites on Wednesday after reimposing a naval blockade of its ports, while Iran struck back ...
Iran threatens to shut Bab el-Mandeb seaway after closing Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close “all other export corridors that benefit the U.S. and its allies”, Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait ...