Category: 3. Middle East

ANTALYA: Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday that both Iran and the United States had the ‌will ‌to continue ‌talks ⁠to end the ⁠war.

Speaking to reporters at a diplomacy forum in the ⁠southern province of…

JERUSALEM: Israel’s military said on Sunday that a soldier died during combat in southern Lebanon, where a temporary ceasefire had come into effect this week.
“Lidor Porat, aged 31, from Ashdod, a soldier in the 7106th Battalion, 769th…

AZ ZUBAYDIYAH, Iraq: On the banks of Iraq’s Tigris River, Haidar Kazem mourned 300 tons of the fish he had carefully raised in ponds wiped out by a flood of polluted water.
Water supplies in Iraq, the eastern half of what is known as the…

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was at a standstill on Sunday after Iran reasserted control over the strategic waterway that is key to global energy supply, days before a fragile ceasefire with the United States was…

NEW YORK CITY: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned on Saturday condemned the killing of a French peacekeeper in southern Lebanon, warning that repeated attacks on its forces may constitute war crimes.

In a statement issued by UN…

BEIRUT, Lebanon: Israeli forces on Saturday carried out demolitions in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, the scene of intense fighting with Hezbollah prior to the recently agreed 10-day truce, Lebanese state media reported.
“The…

TEHRAN: Iran’s state-run Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs said on Saturday that the war with the United States and Israel had killed more than 3,400 people in the Islamic republic.
The announcement comes in the midst of a two-week…

PARIS: Attacks on water systems are uncommon in wartime, but Iran has threatened to target desalination plants after it said its own water and energy infrastructure had sustained damage in the ongoing war with Israel and the US.

What has Iran…