The Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine came under attack twice within three hours, officials said, the latest in a series of strikes near the city.
Iran’s navy fired ‘warning shots’ at US warships in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, state media said, after the American military sent cruisers into the Gulf as part of a plan to help trapped commercial vessels leave....
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said on Monday that the US must reduce its demands on the Islamic Republic, with negotiations stalled over ending the two-month-long Middle East war....
Europeans have “heard” US President Donald Trump’s message of frustration over the Iran war and are “stepping up”, NATO chief Mark Rutte said after Washington announced it would withdraw 5 000 troops from Germany....
A senior US official denied that a US ship was hit by Iranian missiles, Axios journalist Barak Ravid said....
Despite a ceasefire in place since October, families continue to pull bodies from the rubble in Gaza....
Iran warned that it would consider any US attempt to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz a breach of the Mideast ceasefire, as US President Donald Trump said the United States would begin escorting ships through the blocked waterway....
Press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, Reporters Without Borders warned....
Iran’s supreme leader declared on Thursday that the United States had suffered a shameful defeat, defiantly rejecting a warning from President Donald Trump that an economically punishing US naval blockade could be enforced for months to come....
The United States’ war in Iran has cost $25 billion so far, a senior Pentagon official said, providing the first official estimate of the military’s price tag for the conflict....
Britain’s King Charles arrived at the White House on Tuesday for a meeting with US President Donald Trump, as part of a state visit intended to underscore unity between the two longtime allies, despite deep divisions over the Iran war....
US President Donald Trump said that a US naval blockade against Iran could last months, leading oil prices to spike to their highest level in more than four years, which held into Thursday....
President Donald Trump warned Tehran on Wednesday that it should “get smart soon” and capitulate to Washington’s demands for tight controls on its nuclear programme, as a US naval blockade turned the screws on Iran’s economy....
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reaffirmed Pyongyang’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, vowing to help Moscow achieve victory in its “sacred” war, state media reported....
US President Donald Trump’s approval rating sank to the lowest level of his current term, as Americans increasingly soured on his handling of the cost of living and an unpopular war with Iran, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll....
Israel on Tuesday said it was not seeking to take territory in Lebanon, as its military issued a wave of new evacuation warnings for towns and villages in the battle-scarred south....
The head of Israel’s Mossad has praised the spy agency’s “groundbreaking” operations in the war against Iran and Hezbollah, saying it acquired intelligence “from the heart of the enemy’s secrets”....
Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Doctors Without Borders warned, decrying a campaign of “collective punishment” against Palestinians....
Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla are scheduled to arrive in the United States later on Monday for a four-day trip, a tour which has taken on even greater prominence after the White House Correspondents’ dinner shooting and amid acrimony between the close allies....
Analysts say the war in Iran has temporarily delayed an escalation in smouldering tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea. But renewed armed conflict cannot be ruled out....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu belatedly released his annual medical report on Friday, saying doctors had successfully removed a small “early-stage malignant tumour” from his prostate....
The son of the former Shah appealed to Western countries to join the war against Iran and criticised the decision of the German government not to meet him during his visit to Berlin....
Prince Harry urged the United States to take a decisive role in ending the Russian invasion and called on President Vladimir Putin to “stop this war”....
Pope Leo firmly condemned the killing of protesters in Iran, after US President Donald Trump criticised the Catholic leader for not doing so while speaking out against the US-Israel war with Iran....
Israel and Lebanon extended a shaky ceasefire by three weeks, US President Donald Trump said, as the United States remained at a standstill in negotiations with Iran to end the Middle East war....
EU leaders will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Cyprus to celebrate the release of a €90-billion loan for Kyiv after a prolonged deadlock....
Sudan’s war has displaced millions, leaving parts of the country facing famine. Aid agencies warn children are bearing the brunt as food shortages worsen and humanitarian funding declines....
Iranian forces targeted three container ships on Wednesday, seizing two and firing on a third, global security monitors and the country’s Revolutionary Guards said, the latest incidents to threaten a crucial trade route in the Middle East war....
US President Donald Trump extended the US ceasefire with Iran to allow more time for peace talks, with Tehran silent on the decision....
Germany poured cold water on calls to suspend the EU’s cooperation deal with Israel, despite rising anger over the war in Lebanon and the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories....
US President Donald Trump said late that obtaining uranium from Iran would be “long” and “difficult” in the aftermath of last year’s US strikes on Tehran’s nuclear sites....
