Iran warns US, Israel against making ‘a mistake’
1 February 2026, 05:27 AM
Middle East
World must act to ease Gaza’s ‘dire’ conditions
31 January 2026, 07:37 AM
World
Diplomacy gains as US-Iran tensions rise
31 January 2026, 05:09 AM
Middle East
With Iran weakened, Trump’s end goal may now be regime change. It’s an incredibly risky gamble
29 January 2026, 12:25 PM
Middle East
Military intervention in Iran ‘not the preferred option’
26 January 2026, 01:02 AM
Middle East
US envoys in Israel to discuss Gaza’s future
25 January 2026, 01:01 AM
US urges Syria to support jihadist transfer to Iraq
23 January 2026, 05:18 AM
Iran to consider lifting internet ban; state TV hacked
20 January 2026, 08:54 AM
Middle East
Iran executions seemingly ‘tool of state intimidation’
20 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Iran protest toll climbs to 5,000
19 January 2026, 04:50 AM
Change ‘maximum pressure’ policy, Iran urges Trump
Iran yesterday urged US President-elect Donald Trump to reconsider the “maximum pressure” policy he pursued against Tehran during his first term.
9 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Four more militants killed in SE Iran: IRGC
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) killed four more militants during an operation in the country’s southeast region where jihadists killed 10 police last month, state media said yesterday.
8 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Hezbollah fires missiles at Israeli naval base
Hezbollah said it targeted a naval base near the Israeli city of Haifa with missiles yesterday, the second such attack in less than 24 hours.
8 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Israeli offensive in Gaza: 70pc of dead are women, children
The UN Human Rights Office said yesterday nearly 70 percent of the fatalities it has verified in the Gaza offensive were women and children, and condemned what it called a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.
8 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Israeli strikes hit Hezbollah’s main bastion
Israel conducted air strikes on Hezbollah’s main bastion in south Beirut yesterday, with one raid hitting an area near Lebanon’s only international airport.
7 November 2024, 18:36 PM
US ‘blind support’ for Israel must end
A senior Hamas official told AFP that the United States under Donald Trump, who won in the US presidential election, must end its “blind support” for Israel in the offensive in Gaza.
6 November 2024, 18:20 PM
Israel issues new evacuation orders
Israel’s military issued new evacuation orders in the north of the Gaza Strip yesterday after carrying out strikes across the enclave which Palestinian media and medics said had killed at least 35 people.
5 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Top Hezbollah commander killed
The Israeli military said yesterday it had killed a top Hezbollah commander it accused of overseeing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.
4 November 2024, 18:29 PM
Israeli attacks kill 31 Palestinians in Gaza
At least 31 people were killed during Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip yesterday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long campaign it says aims to prevent Hamas regrouping.
3 November 2024, 18:11 PM
Iran stages rallies to mark 1979 hostage crisis
Iranian demonstrators yesterday gathered outside the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 hostage crisis that has for decades shaped relations between Washington and Tehran.
3 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Israel strikes ‘apocalyptic’ north Gaza
Israel yesterday again carried out deadly air strikes on north Gaza, where the UN calls conditions “apocalyptic”, as Lebanon’s Hezbollah intensified rocket fire near Israel’s commercial hub of Tel Aviv, on Israel’s second front.
2 November 2024, 18:22 PM
‘Israel to face tooth-breaking response’
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said yesterday that the United States and Israel will “undoubtedly receive a crushing response” for what they do against his country, state media reported.
2 November 2024, 18:00 PM
‘Where to go?
In the Christian town of Deir al-Ahmar, Hassan Noun has pitched his tent in a church courtyard after fleeing Israeli air strikes in the eastern Lebanese region of Baalbek.
2 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Lebanon says 52 killed in Israeli strikes in east
Lebanon's health ministry said 52 people had been killed in Israeli strikes on Friday in the country's east, attacks for which the Israeli army had not issued evacuation warnings
2 November 2024, 04:37 AM
US announces new Mideast military deployments in warning to Iran
"Should Iran, its partners, or its proxies use this moment to target American personnel or interests in the region, the United States will take every measure necessary to defend our people," Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder said in a statement
2 November 2024, 03:57 AM
Israeli strike on Syria weapons depots kills 10
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 people, mostly civilians, were killed in strikes on Syria’s Qusayr region bordering Lebanon, where Israel said it hit Hezbollah weapons depots.
1 November 2024, 18:21 PM
Truce hopes fade as Israeli airstrikes kill 64 Palestinians
Prospects of a ceasefire between Israel and its foe Hamas ran aground yesterday as Israeli airstrikes killed at least 64 people, most of them women and children, in the Gaza Strip, according to medics in the Palestinian enclave.
1 November 2024, 18:11 PM
Israel pounds south Beirut with powerful strikes
Israel pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs with a series of powerful airstrikes early yesterday morning after issuing evacuation orders to residents, in the first such strikes in days targeting the dense urban area, Reuters witnesses said.
1 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Hamas rejects short-term Gaza truce
A senior Hamas official said yesterday that the group rejects any proposal for a temporary halt to more than a year of fighting in Gaza and insists on a lasting ceasefire.
31 October 2024, 19:35 PM
Israeli attack on Iran: Missile production unaffected
Iran said yesterday that its production of missiles remained intact, following Israeli air strikes targeting military facilities last week.
30 October 2024, 18:40 PM