FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert breaks down what could be Putin's strategy and ultimate goal, following the proposal accepted by Ukraine of an immediate 30-day ceasefire.
A US submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on March 4th. The Pentagon also warned the operation in Iran was "far from over". "We are seeing an administration that is trying to make a very confused narrative seems to take on the air of cohesion",...
Rewatch US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth's press conference on the war in Iran as US-Israeli strikes continue....
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hit back on Wednesday at US President Donald Trump's criticisms of Madrid's refusal to let US planes use its bases to attack #Iran. #Trump called #Spain a "terrible" ally on Tuesday....
Some 148 sailors are still missing after a US submarine strike sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lankan authorities said Wednesday. The authorities said they had managed to rescue 32 people on board the IRIS Dena....
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate are set to vote on March 4th on a bipartisan war powers resolution aiming to stop the military campaign against Iran and require that any hostilities against it be authorised by Congress. This comes as Trump faces little voter support for the war. But lawmakers' e...
President Trump has launched into a war while he’s facing some of the lowest approval ratings of his political career. A recent poll showed that just one in four Americans approved of his attack on Iran. But it’s not just the general American public: The war is also beginning to show some crack...
The Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a swathe of southern Lebanon on March 4th, asking residents to move north. This evacuation is the broadest evacuation order yet in this new conflict. Meanwhile, Syria has closed its border with Lebanon after a warning it would be targeted by Isra...
On the fourth day of US-Israeli bombardment of Iran, US officials gave more reasons for their offensive in the country, though their plan for after the war remains unclear. Stated US motivations have also shifted over time, from intervening on the behalf anti-regime protesters in January to "preemp...
Iran announced that a state funeral for supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was postponed after it was meant to be held on March 4th. This comes as the late supreme leader's successor is set to be appointed, with his son expected to take on the role. But "everything about this nomination is specu...
PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, March 4: The war in the Middle East has transformed the lives of influencers and expats living in Dubai. But first: papers discuss why US President Donald Trump chose to strike Iran. Also: junior doctors in England use ADHD as an excuse to skip working overnight. Finall...
Since the start of US Israeli strikes on Iran Saturday, the Middle East has been gripped by widespread conflict and chaos, disrupting important shipping routes for oil and other goods. In an attempt to curb rising prices, US president Donald Trump says the US will provide political risk insurance f...
The US and Israel intensified strikes on Iran on March 3rd and 4th. Since the start of the conflict, hundreds of people have been killed in the country, including over 160 students who died in an attack on a girl school in the south of the country. The admiral in charge of US operation revealed tha...
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on March 3rd the deployment of additional military resources, including the aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle and its escort, to help protect his allies facing the consequences of the war in the Middle East. The flagship of the French fleet is interruptin...
Israel and Hezbollah have been trading tit for tat strikes for a second day. According to a Lebanese health ministry official, 52 people have been killed and more than 150 wounded due to Israeli attacks . Thousands of civilians have been displaced, and on March 3rd the Israeli military issued dozen...
As the Iran war enters its fifth day, the Trump administration is facing growing criticism. After US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hinted at Israel having forced the US's hand to strike Iran, MAGA backlash grew as they are "isolationists and often anti-Israel", FRANCE 24's Kethevane Gorjestani exp...
The United States and Israel hit Iran's capital and other cities in multiple airstrikes on March 4, the fifth day of the war with Iran. Israel targeted the Iranian leadership and security forces as the Islamic Republic responded with missile barrages and drone attacks on Israel and across the regio...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday ordered a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets as war in the Middle East showed no signs of de-escalating. Macron also noted that France has defence agreements with several Gulf states as...
South Korea's main stock index, the KOSPI, lost 12 percent on Wednesday, sending retail investors into a panic as fears of energy shortages due to the war in Iran battered shares in chipmakers and industrial giants. Meanwhile, Donald Trump says the US will insure oil tankers transiting the Persian...
The US Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s decision to move toward armed conflict with Iran, a rare congressional test of a fast‑escalating Middle East crisis that has unfolded without a clearly defined US strategy for ending the confrontation....
Carys Garland is pleased to welcome Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). As war rages in Iran, Mr. Takeyh warns that America's "war of choice" is guided by an improvised military strategy that swings wildly between grand ambitions of regime ch...
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and Programme Director for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, says that "even in the most controversial wars, like Iraq, when the war initiates, people tend to rally around the flag [] th...
Iran has taken the risky gambit of closing the Strait of Hormuz, which could backfire and hurt its own economy. FRANCE 24's Yuka Royer speaks with Iranian-Austrian economist Mahdi Ghodsi from the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies about Iran's unsustainable economic path and whethe...
In tonight's edition: The Global South widely condemns the war in Iran, with many countries accusing the US and Israel of violating international law and acting unilaterally. Also, the United States imposes sanctions on the Rwandan army and several top military officials over their role in the figh...
Trump threatened Tuesday to sever all trade with Spain after it refused to let US planes use its bases to attack Iran. Spain's left-wing government led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, one of Europe's most defiant leaders against Trump, has said that bases long used by US forces could only be allow...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticised UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for not initially permitting American warplanes to use UK bases to strike Iran, saying "this is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with"....
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, says that "as time has gone on and as Hezbollah has repeatedly dragged the country into war, the patience of everyone else for this excuse 'well, we're fighting Israel, so it's ok' has wor...
"There is possibly a feeling of bitter betrayal" among Gulf countries over the Iranian response to the attacks, according to journalist Hoda Abdel-Hamid, who is reporting for FRANCE 24 in Doha....
President Trump has launched into a war while he’s facing some of the lowest approval ratings of his political career and while a recent poll showed that just one in four Americans approved of his attack on Iran. But it’s not just the general American public. The war is also beginning to sho...
Genie Godula is pleased to welcome Susan Marie Ossman, anthropologist, artist, historian, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Professor of Movements, Spaces and Cultural Practices Affiliationat NYU Abu Dhabi. As war rages in Iran and across the Middle East, Professor Ossman's classes have moved...
