A senior Iranian military officer said on Saturday that renewed fighting with the US was "likely", hours after President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with an Iranian negotiating proposal. Iran delivered the new draft to mediator Pakistan on Thursday evening, state
LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government could ban pro-Palestinian marches in some circumstances because of the "cumulative effect" the demonstrations had on the Jewish community after two Jewish men were stabbed in London on Wednesday.
May 2 (Reuters) - An Iranian proposal so far rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump would open shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and end the U.S. blockade of Iran while leaving talks on Iran's nuclear programme for later, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Four weeks
The latest developments in the Middle East war: - US Navy 'acting like pirates' - President Donald Trump said the US Navy was acting "like pirates" as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian ports. "We... land on top of it and
BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters) - Europeans must take greater responsibility for their own security, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Saturday in response to the announcement of U.S. plans to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany. "Germany is on the right track" in this
Despite the U.S.-Iran front heating up, the president still refuses to let Israel launch a large-scale campaign against Hezbollah. But to fulfill Israel's wishes of dismantling the group without such an operation would require significant aid to the incompetent Lebanese Army
(Corrects paragraph 6 to add dropped words about Iran war) May 2 (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was in an Iranian hospital after a "catastrophic deterioration of her health," including a "cardiac crisis", a foundation run by her family said. The secretary
By Felix Light ASHGABAT, May 2 (Reuters) - From a brightly lit, open-plan office Azat Seyitmuhammedov runs an e-commerce startup, Wabrum, that he founded almost a decade ago. In Berlin or San Francisco, this would be an everyday scene, but here in the capital of Turkmenistan,
By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - More than two months into a conflict that has failed to deliver a decisive military or diplomatic win, President Donald Trump faces the risk that a standoff with Iran will drag on indefinitely and leave an even bigger problem for
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. Navy was acting "like pirates" in carrying out Washington's naval blockade of Iranian ports during the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran. Trump made the comments while describing the
Lebanon's health ministry said 13 people were killed on Friday in Israeli strikes in the south, including in a town where Israel's army had issued an evacuation order despite a ceasefire. The strikes in Habboush killed eight people, including a child and two women, and wounded
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Friday it was approving military sales worth a total of over $8.6 billion to Middle Eastern allies Israel, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The announcement comes as the U.S. and Israel's war against
By Nate Raymond May 1 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from moving ahead next week with plans to end temporary legal protections that have allowed more than 2,800 people from Yemen to live and work in the United States.
Iran is using the fragile truce to recover by blending redeployment and reverse engineering into broader preparedness for renewed conflict.
May 1 (Reuters) - China's ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday that there was a need to revisit the U.N. Security Council's decision to end the mandate of a longrunning peacekeeping mission in Lebanon at the end of this year. The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon
The UN refugee agency on Friday said the Middle East war had sent its freight rates soaring, hitting the delivery of aid to refugees in the wider region and Africa. Shipping rates from UNHCR's three main source countries for emergency supplies -- India, Pakistan and China --
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he had spoken with Iraqi prime minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi on Thursday, and voiced strong support for him. "With our help, he won, and we want him to do very well. And I told
May 1 (Reuters) - China's U.N. ambassador Fu Cong said on Friday it was an urgent necessity to maintain the Iran war ceasefire and that he was sure the Strait of Hormuz issue would be high on the agenda if it is still closed when U.S. President Donald Trump goes to China this
A senior official in the Trump administration told Reuters that the U.S.-Iran cease-fire that began in early April has 'terminated' hostilities between the two sides for the purposes of an approaching congressional war powers deadline, set to expire Friday
By Patricia Zengerle and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration argued that a ceasefire with Tehran had "terminated" hostilities as a legal deadline arrived on Friday for coming to Congress about the two-month Iran war. Under the
May 1 (Reuters) - Iranian soccer federation president Mehdi Taj said Canadian officials cleared him to enter the country for the FIFA Congress, but Iran’s delegation chose to turn back after being held for three hours and questioned at a Toronto airport, Iranian media reported
Throwing more than $5 billion at a divisive new tour and walking away after five seasons does not look like good business, but LIV Golf wasn't all bad news for Saudi Arabia. Oil-funded LIV, which poached top stars and sent golf's establishment into a tailspin, helped push the
The latest sanctions come as the Trump administration weighs Iran's latest proposal to end the war.
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - Any shippers paying tolls to Iran for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, including charitable donations to organizations such as the Iranian Red Crescent Society, are at risk of punitive sanctions, the U.S. Treasury warned on
By Alexander Cornwell TEL AVIV, May 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. military-run centre near Gaza that critics say failed in its mission to monitor the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and boost aid flows to besieged Palestinians is set to be shut by the Trump administration, sources familiar with
Whenever Fatima al-Safadi hears a knock at the door, she imagines it might be her sons -- among dozens of people Israel has seized from southern Syria and whose fate remains unknown months later. Mohammed, 40, and Ahmed, 36, were among seven people seized in a nighttime Israeli
IDF officials said that the air force's prolonged preparations for fighting Iran did not match the scale of the challenge. The officials highlighted in particular the threat of Hezbollah drones which killed one Israeli soldier and wounded over 15 over the past two days
