WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a ceasefire set to begin at 4 p.m. local time on Friday, a senior U.S. official told Reuters. “Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire,” the official said on background, adding that negotiators for the
Deadly exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon put a newly signed deal to end the Middle East war under further strain on Friday, after the postponement of planned US-Iran talks in Switzerland. The delay came as Tehran's top negotiator warned it would not bend on its
The ceasefire declared in Gaza more than eight months ago is a "deadly illusion", the UN charged on Friday, with 265 children killed there since the fighting was supposed to have stopped. Despite a ceasefire being declared in October 2025, Israel has continued to launch strikes
Five militia commanders said the new Iraqi cells reflect a shift in IRGC tactics aimed at preserving Iran's ability to project force across the region at a time when its armed proxy groups are greatly diminished and its own resources are depleted
By John Irish PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - Paris-based Iranian opposition group NCRI said on Friday that the city's police had banned a rally it was due to hold on Saturday and that it had appealed what it said was a "bogus" decision.
The politician and Marada Movement leader has a close relationship with the Syrian Assad family and staunchly supports Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah.
PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry denied on Friday that it had asked for the ban of an Iranian opposition rally that had been due to take place on Saturday in Paris. The Paris-based NCRI said earlier in the day that the Paris police had banned their rally at
Ben Simhon, who was killed in the Friday strike, became the battalion's commander in April after his predecessor was severely wounded in fighting in southern Lebanon. He is survived by his wife, who serves as a combat officer in the IDF's Reconnaissance Corps, and his two
TOKYO, June 19 (Reuters) - A vessel owned by a Japanese company carrying three Japanese crew members safely passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and exited the Gulf, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. • The vessel, which had been stuck in the Gulf due to the
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, June 19 (Reuters) - Britain's Bar Standards Board said on Friday it had imposed an interim suspension of Karim Khan, who had been the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor before he was suspended by the court on June 8 over sexual
PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - France wants to play a role in talks dealing with Iran's nuclear programme and will not approve the lifting of UN sanctions unless it is satisfied by the terms of a final accord, its foreign minister said on Friday. Jean-Noel Barrot, whose country is
By Nandita Bose, Yomna Ehab and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON/DUBAI/ZURICH, June 19 (Reuters) - Switzerland said U.S. talks with Iranian negotiators on a pact to end the Middle East conflict would not take place on Friday, while Vice President JD Vance dropped plans to travel there,
The Iranian football federation said Thursday it will lodge a complaint with FIFA claiming its team is being subjected to travel restrictions during the World Cup in North America. Iran wanted to fly from their base camp in Tijuana, Mexico, to the United States two days before
The Israeli military said it targeted Hezbollah operatives and sites responding to what it said were 'repeating violations of the cease-fire agreement' by the Iran-backed group
DUBAI, June 19 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon killed at least 15 people on Friday, state news agency NNA said, while Israel said the attacks launched overnight were aimed at what it described as Hezbollah targets in several areas. Residents and domestic media
June 19 (Reuters) - Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has set up secretive new cells in Iraq to carry out attacks on Gulf countries that host American forces, bypassing established militia networks to avoid detection, eight Iraqi sources told Reuters. Three or
U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland were canceled after a dispute over a Lebanon-related clause in the agreement, a diplomatic source told Haaretz, as Lebanese media reported at least 16 killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon
By Nandita Bose, Yomna Ehab and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON/DUBAI, June 19 (Reuters) - Switzerland said U.S. talks with Iranian negotiators on a pact to end the Middle East conflict would not take place on Friday, as Vice President JD Vance dropped plans to travel to Geneva,
June 19 (Reuters) - Talks that had been planned for Friday between the United States and Iran at the Burgenstock mountaintop resort in Switzerland will not take place, according to a Swiss foreign ministry statement. The announcement came after a White House spokesperson said
Salah Sarsour, the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, was detained in March as part of Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices. He was convicted as a teenager in an Israeli military court before moving to the U.S.
The United States is about to embark on difficult negotiations with the Iranian government, whose survival of a massive US-Israeli military assault has undercut American leverage while bolstering the Islamic republic. US President Donald Trump tore up the last nuclear deal with
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian American detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March, was released from detention on Thursday after an order by a federal judge. "Mr. Sarsour
Are there any real winners of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran? The global economy may benefit from renewed oil exports, while Trump could score a short-term political win if voters forget the war's economic fallout by the midterms
A senior Israeli official told reuters that Jerusalem is in 'stubborn negotiations' with the Trump administration over limits on IDF deployment in southern Lebanon up to 10 km inside the territory, as Netanyahu said the buffer zone will remain 'so long as security needs require
Is it goodbye Air Force One, hello Qatar Force One? White House officials bade farewell on Thursday to one of the two jets that have been used to transport US presidents for more than 30 years. The goodbye messages fueled speculation that a Boeing 747 controversially gifted to
By Patricia Zengerle and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's interim deal to end the Iran war met scorching public criticism from some of his fellow Republicans as copies of the signed agreement circulated on Capitol Hill on Thursday. One
By Saad Sayeed, Andrew Mills, Ariba Shahid and Olivia Le Poidevin ISLAMABAD, June 18 (Reuters) - Pakistani mediators spent weeks juggling late-night calls and competing drafts before a Qatari push helped secure this week's preliminary U.S.-Iran deal, but turning it into a
By Andy Sullivan and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has insisted that the deal he has reached with Iran is superior to the one that President Barack Obama sealed in 2015, while Trump's critics say at this point he has gotten much less and
June 18 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Thursday he had authorised a memorandum of understanding signed by the Iranian and U.S. presidents, despite holding a different view, after receiving assurances from President Masoud Pezeshkian and other senior
Israel's foreign minister said Thursday he was severing all contact with the European Union's top diplomat over reported remarks in which she allegedly compared Israel to apartheid-era South Africa. Diplomatic relations between Israel and the EU have come under heavy strain
Prime Minister Netanyahu says the Israeli army will remain in southern Lebanon 'so long as security needs require it,' as President Aoun tells negotiators heading to Washington that Beirut 'will not accept any arrangement that does not ensure full sovereignty and a complete
By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT, June 18 (Reuters) - The U.S.-Iran agreement — the first signed by an American and an Iranian president since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution — is being hailed by its backers as the deal of the century. But for Tehran's adversaries across the Middle East
US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday issued an extraordinary rebuke to Israeli critics of the Iran deal, warning them not to alienate their "only powerful ally" left in the world. Vance told members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet to "wake up and smell
US Vice President JD Vance on Friday issued an extraordinary rebuke to Israeli critics of the Iran deal, warning them not to alienate their "only powerful ally" left in the world. Vance told members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet criticizing the
WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday announced sanctions against several Lebanese officials it said were aligned with Hezbollah and members of the sanctioned Alaa Hassan Hamieh business network for obstructing Lebanon’s peace process and delaying the
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - The interim deal to end the Iran war will include a waiver on sanctioned oil sales but the country still faces a complex web of international restrictions on its activities and trade. Sanctions, trade embargoes and asset freezes have been imposed by
Several teams from the Middle East and North Africa could advance to the knockout stage under the new format, and Morocco climbed in the rankings despite a tie in its opener.
WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance said the 60-day window laid out in a memorandum of understanding approved by President Donald Trump and Iranian leaders begins on Thursday. "I would say the 60-day period officially started today," Vance told
The Iran war was cast as a catalyst for the Islamic republic's collapse, but months of fighting failed to dislodge the clerical leadership and left its opponents out in the cold. US President Donald Trump said in launching the war with Israel on February 28 that it would pave
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, June 18 (Reuters) - Dozens of countries including Britain, France and Germany raised the alarm at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday that Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces could imminently escalate an assault on the central Sudanese
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticized Israel for a "weird panic" and "freakout" over the agreement struck between the U.S. and Iran, in an interview released on Thursday as the Trump administration sought to tamp down criticism
By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President JD Vance criticized Israel for a "weird panic" and "freakout" over the agreement struck between the U.S. and Iran, in an interview released on Thursday as the Trump administration sought to tamp down criticism
Three big Saudi oil tankers left the Gulf through the Hormuz Strait on Thursday, maritime trackers said, after leaders vowed to reopen the route under an agreement to end the US-Iran war. Virtually halted during three and a half months of conflict, traffic through the crucial
Wall Street stocks bounced Thursday, pivoting back to buying mode after the pullback in the prior session prompted by a Federal Reserve policy outlook that signaled possible rate hikes ahead. But the dollar continued to push higher in light of the Fed outlook, while oil prices
Oil prices dropped further Thursday after US President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart signed off on a deal to end four months of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to tanker and cargo traffic. Optimism that operations will in due course return to pre-war levels in
Oil prices dropped further on Thursday after US President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart signed off on a deal to end four months of war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to tanker and cargo traffic. Wall Street was cautiously in the green around a half hour into
By Jihed Abidellaoui and Zohra Bensemra NABATIEH, Lebanon, June 18 (Reuters) - Rescue workers in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh said they believed their headquarters, clearly identified as a civil defence centre, would be safe from Israeli bombardment - until it was
The White House declined to say whether the six Americans would be included in a final deal.