The El Nino weather pattern picked up strength over the past month and is highly likely to "rank among the largest" ever recorded when it peaks between October and December, US forecasters said Thursday. In its latest update, the US Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said there is
The former supreme leader is being laid to rest in Mashhad after a week of nationwide mourning ceremonies, while his son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, remains absent from public view, deepening uncertainty over the country's transition of authority
The railway bridge also links Tehran and other southern cities to Mashhad, where large crowds are gathering for the burial ceremony on Thursday of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, July 9 (Reuters) - Gazans turned out in large numbers to pay their respects to a senior Palestinian member of Egypt's main aid organisation who set up World Cup screenings in the shattered enclave and was killed by an Israeli air strike on a taxi he
The world's chemical weapons watchdog reinstated Syria on Thursday, noting a "significant change in circumstances" since the fall of Bashar al-Assad and "concrete steps" to dismantle his deadly stockpile of banned substances. The new Syrian government has "committed to
AMSTERDAM, July 9 (Reuters) - Member states handed back Syria's voting rights at the global chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday, following what they described as "a significant change in circumstances" since the fall of the Assad regime. Syria was stripped of its rights at
By Jonathan Saul LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - Oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was at a near standstill on Thursday, according to data and sources, as shipping risks escalated after the U.S. renewed airstrikes on Iran, triggering retaliation by Tehran in the Gulf.
BERLIN, July 9 (Reuters) - Germany will purchase Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States and station them on German soil, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday, in a shift from planned U.S. deployments to Germany's own long-range strike capability. Merz told
By Ariba Shahid ISLAMABAD, July 9 (Reuters) - The family of Faisal Jatoi, the Pakistani co-pilot missing with four others after their cargo plane crashed into the Arabian Sea, faced an agonising wait for news on Thursday, as rescuers continued their search. Jatoi was
MADRID, July 9 (Reuters) - Belgium's prime minister was a little surprised on landing back home from Wednesday's NATO summit in Turkey to find that he had a handgun and ammunition in his luggage. After NATO leaders gathered for Wednesday's fractious summit in Ankara, their
According to reports in Iranian media, the U.S. also hit the Aq Taqeh Khan railway bridge, a trade link to Tehran's strategic partners China and Russia located in northern Iran's Golestan province
By Feras Dalatey DUBAI, July 9 (Reuters) - Russia hopes by mid-July to have a commercial logistics hub up and running in one of two berths at the naval base it leases in the Syrian port of Tartous, while keeping a military presence at the other, Syrian officials told Reuters.
By Feras Dalatey DUBAI, July 9 (Reuters) - Russia hopes by mid-July to have a commercial logistics hub up and running in one of two berths at the naval base it leases in the Syrian port of Tartous, while keeping a military presence at the other, Syrian officials told Reuters.
By Nayera Abdallah, Tala Ramadan and Ahmed Elimam DUBAI, July 9 (Reuters) - Iranian armed forces launched attacks on U.S. military infrastructure in neighbouring Gulf states on Thursday following U.S. strikes on Iran's southern coastal and eastern provinces, putting further
By Elwely Elwelly, Nayera Abdallah and Tala Ramadan DUBAI, July 9 (Reuters) - Iranian armed forces launched attacks on U.S. military infrastructure in Gulf states on Thursday following U.S. strikes on Iran's southern coastal and eastern provinces, putting further strain on a
By Andrew Gray and Lili Bayer ANKARA, July 9 (Reuters) - NATO has weathered another storm from Donald Trump but European members of the military alliance are bracing for more turbulence ahead in relations with the U.S. president. It says much about the state of U.S.-European
By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI, July 9 (Reuters) - Iran buries its slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday at the country's holiest shrine, with his son and successor Mojtaba Khamenei still hidden from public view after being disfigured in the strike
By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI, July 9 (Reuters) - The funeral procession of Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approached the country's holiest shrine for his burial on Thursday with a massive banner reading 'We Will Kill Trump' pulled alongside in
By Pesha Magid SINJIL, West Bank, July 9 (Reuters) - On a cool night in June, some 15 Palestinians from the town of Sinjil in the occupied West Bank gathered on a hilltop to watch the shadowed valleys below for any sign of movement that might signal an impending Israeli settler
Trump said strikes on Iran were retribution for attacks on ships; U.S. forces struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets, while a U.S. official told CNN that the cease-fire between Washington and Tehran 'has at least temporarily ceased'
July 8 (Reuters) - The White House has defended its handling of Iran's visa restrictions during the World Cup, with top official Andrew Giuliani saying the team's decision to base themselves in Tijuana, Mexico, instead of Tucson was mutually beneficial. Giuliani, Executive
By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s struggle to extricate himself from the unpopular Iran war has hit a new roadblock with the latest exchange of attacks between the two sides, leaving him with few good options and a faltering
Iranians were preparing on Thursday to bury their slain leader Ali Khamenei in his hometown of Mashhad in northeast Iran, as new US strikes threatened to trigger a fresh escalation in the Middle East war. But the ceasefire looked increasingly threatened as US Central Command
With its defiant strikes on ships, Iran is making a paradoxical and explosively high-risk calculation -- that it can boost its long-term deterrence through actions that invite new US attacks. "Iran's calculation is that calibrated, limited escalation can restore deterrence
WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. military is conducting fresh strikes on Iran, the U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday, hours after President Donald Trump declared that an interim agreement to end the war with Iran was "over." It said the strikes were aimed at
The United States said Wednesday it will delist Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism, a decades-old designation that severely impeded investment, in a new vote of confidence in leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. The United States has listed Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1979.
Closing off the NATO leaders' summit in Ankara, Trump said Turkey had refrained from joining the Iran war 'by request,' even though 'he's not a huge fan of Bibi or Israel' • The U.S. president also decided to rescind Syria's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism
By Tuvan Gumrukcu, Huseyin Hayatsever and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) - Turkey put on a red-white-and-blue air show and named a new airport building after President Donald Trump, seeking to take its relationship with the U.S. to new heights at a NATO summit in
By Tuvan Gumrukcu, Huseyin Hayatsever and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) - Turkey put on a red-white-and-blue air show and named a new airport building after President Donald Trump, seeking to take its relationship with the U.S. to new heights at a NATO summit in
By Gram Slattery, Bo Erickson and Steve Holland ANKARA/WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday informed his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa that he had decided to remove the country from the U.S. list of designated state sponsors of terrorism. "I
By Gram Slattery, Bo Erickson and Steve Holland ANKARA/WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday informed his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa that he had decided to remove the country from the U.S. list of designated state sponsors of terrorism. "I
While President Donald Trump has declared the US-Iran memorandum over, Tehran's response suggests it is recalibrating — not abandoning — its strategy as military pressure increasingly eclipses diplomacy.
July 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has notified Congress of his decision to rescind Syria’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday. The move requires Congress to conduct a 45-day review to make the
By Andrew Gray ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) - Disputes between U.S. President Donald Trump and other NATO leaders showed the alliance's democratic strength and should serve as a lesson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday after a
ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) - Disagreements between U.S. President Donald Trump and other NATO leaders showed the alliance's democratic strength and should serve as a lesson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, NATO boss Mark Rutte said on Wednesday after a summit in Ankara. In
The head of the International Maritime Organization said Wednesday the 6,000 seafarers still stranded in the Gulf must not be put in unnecessary danger by crossing the Strait of Hormuz amid fresh US-Iran attacks. Dominguez said the "attacks further intensify the fear,
July 8 (Reuters) - Pakistan urged all sides to uphold their commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said the interim deal reached with Iran last month was "over". "Pakistan
By Maayan Lubell TEL AVIV, July 8 (Reuters) - Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat weighing a 2028 U.S. presidential run, said on Wednesday that Israel risks jeopardizing its alliance with Washington unless it changes course on the Palestinians because of growing unease with its policies
Top Democratic lawmakers say the ball is in Ankara’s court on rejoining the US-led F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, but suggest that Turkey offshoring its Russian-made S-400 system won’t be enough.
ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not think a full-fledged conflict with Iran would erupt in the wake of military strikes from both sides. "I don't think it's going to start again. I think it's going to go very quickly. They hit a
As Yerevan pursues normalization with Turkey and Azerbaijan and backs a US-led transport corridor, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is working to reassure an increasingly assertive Iran that its interests won't be threatened.
By Mike Stone, Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON/ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was leaving Turkey aboard an older Air Force One aircraft rather than a recently renovated Qatari-donated jet, an unexpected switch that renewed
By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk ANKARA, July 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday told reporters there had been "tremendous unity" at the NATO summit in Turkey and also promised to increase U.S. defense production. "They (European nations) want the American
MOSCOW, July 8 (Reuters) - Russia introduced a ban on diesel exports on Wednesday as part of a raft of measures to support the domestic fuel market after systematic Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries triggered shortages and price spikes in some regions. Drivers in many
By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI, July 8 - Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become a "golden weapon" to Iran, for which it is willing to risk new escalations with the United States, and is a bigger priority than a nuclear programme for which it accepted decades of