#Iran crisis

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos spoke by phone on Wednesday with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi to address the recent US-Iran ceasefire and its implications for regional stability. Taking to social ...

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 ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said he welcomes the two-week conditional ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, which will bring a temporary two-week halt to the country’s ongoing ...

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, ...

Two more Merlin Mk2 helicopters have arrived at Cyprus’ British Akrotiri air force base, the British defence ministry has said. The helicopters’ arrival brings the total number of British Merlin ...

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 ...

European shares retreated on Tuesday, led by declines in defence and healthcare stocks, as investors turned cautious ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen ...

Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Tuesday as investors scrutinized developments for clues on what might come next in the Middle East conflict, before President Donald Trump’s deadline ...

The Israeli military issued on Tuesday a warning for all vessels anchoring or sailing in the maritime area between Lebanon’s Tyre and Ras Naqoura, signalling a likely imminent attack. ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday expressed his “steadfast solidarity” with Qatar amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, during a meeting with his Qatari counterpart, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman ...

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 ...

Talks between the United States and Iran were at risk of being derailed following Tehran’s attacks on Saudi Arabian industrial facilities, two Pakistani sources with knowledge of the discussions ...

The current oil and gas crisis triggered by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is “more serious than the ones in 1973, 1979 and 2022 together”, Fatih Birol, the head of the ...

We don’t have to look very far to find a useful historical analogy for the current crisis in the Middle East. In 1967 Egypt closed the Strait of Tiran to ...

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 ...

Oil prices extended gains on Tuesday as a U.S.-imposed deadline loomed for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or be “taken out”, with U.S. President Donald ...

Iran and Israel traded attacks on Tuesday as Tehran defiantly refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and accept a ceasefire deal on the eve of a deadline set by ...

US President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters that Iran could be taken out in one night, “and that night might be tomorrow night,” warning Tehran it had to make ...

US President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters that he thought the Iranian people should rise up against the government in the country if a ceasefire were declared, but understood ...