The United States on Friday announced a fresh round of sanctions targeting people and companies in China, Hong Kong, Belarus,...
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has issued a strong statement asserting that the United States should have no role...
Polls in Iran opened on Friday for a presidential election following the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a...Around 61 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the polls
Khamenei: "the most qualified candidate" must be "the one who truly believes in the principles of the Islamic Revolution" of 1979
Top Israeli officials have suggested they are open to a diplomatic resolution of the border tensions, though Gallant said Israel..."Another war between Israel and Hezbollah could easily become a regional war," US Defense Secretary warned
"Diplomacy is by far the best way to prevent more escalation," Austin added
- Iranians vote on Friday to elect a new president from six candidates, including a lone reformist who hopes he can...
In the 2021 election that brought Raisi to power, voters shunned the polls
Six candidates, five conservatives and one reformist, are competing in Iran's presidential election
Assange had been detained in the high-security Belmarsh prison in London since April 2019. He was arrested after spending seven...Assange, who from 2010 published hundreds of thousands of secret US documents as head of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, was freed Monday from a high-security British prison
The judge on Wednesday sentenced him to five years and two months in prison - with credit for the same amount of time he spent behind bars in Britain
Dubai, UAE - An article in The Telegraph alleging that Hizbollah is stockpiling Iranian weapons at Beirut International Airport (BIA)...The Telegraph's report on June 23, 2024, cited unnamed "whistleblowers" who claimed that Hizbollah had amassed "huge quantities of Iranian weapons, missiles, and explosives" at BIA
The absence of identifiable sources and the reliance on anonymous airport workers as the sole basis for such significant allegations have been points of contention
- Netanyahu said Israel would be able to "redeploy some forces to the north" on the border with Lebanon, where exchanges...
The right-wing premier spoke in a TV interview on Sunday as Defence Minister Yoav Gallant travelled to Washington for what Gallant called "critical" talks with Israel's top ally
With fears growing of full-scale war in Lebanon, Netanyahu said Israel would return its displaced citizens to their evacuated northern border communities
- Lebanon's transport minister denied on Sunday that Hezbollah was storing weapons at Beirut airport, as fears grow of all-out war...
Hamieh invited ambassadors and journalists to inspect the airport on Monday morning
Cross-border exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel have escalated over the past two weeks
- Gaza civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP that at least 20 were killed in a strike on a...
The Gaza City strikes added to at least 120 deaths over the previous 48 hours which the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza reported earlier Saturday
Exchanges of fire across the Lebanese border between Israel and the powerful Iran-backed group Hezbollah have also escalated, raising fears of wider war
- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's group and Israeli forces have exchanged near-daily fire since Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel...
Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for a deadly air strike in south Lebanon
Experts are divided on the prospect of wider war
- Hassan Nasrallah - whose powerful Iran-backed group has exchanged near-daily fire with Israel since its ally Hamas's October 7 attack...
Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said "no place" in Israel would "be spared our rockets", in a televised address broadcast amid spiraling tensions across the Israel-Lebanon border
Meanwhile, the war between Israel and Hamas raged in Gaza, with Israeli air strikes and clashes between troops and Palestinian fighters
