Middle East

Pakistan has delivered a proposal from the United States to Iran, and either Pakistan or Turkey could be venues for discussions to de-escalate the war in the Gulf, a senior ...

Gulf Arab states told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday they face an existential threat from Iran as they condemned Iranian attacks on their infrastructure, which the U....

Turkey’s dependence on Middle East oil is at a “manageable” 10% of total supplies and there are no supply problems despite the war involving Iran, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said ...

Israel and Iran exchanged airstrikes on Wednesday, as Iran again rejected President Donald Trump’s claim the United States was in negotiations to end to the war which has roiled ...

Israeli and Lebanese sources reported on Tuesday that an Iranian missile intercepted over northern Lebanon may have been aimed at the British bases in Cyprus, according to US military assessments. ...

British Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Tuesday that government support for households to offset the increase in energy costs caused by the conflict in the Middle East would not jeopardise ...

Iran’s negotiating posture has hardened sharply since the war began, with the Revolutionary Guards exerting growing influence over decision-making, and it will demand significant concessions from the United States ...

Israel’s military will occupy southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, defence minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday, the first time Israel has clearly spelled out its intent to ...

The Iran war is a “disastrous mistake” that breaches international law, Germany’s president said on Tuesday in an unusually blunt rebuke of U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign ...

Apparent U.S.-Israeli airstrikes hit a headquarters of Iraq’s umbrella group for Iran-backed Shi’ite militia and a residence belonging to its leader on Tuesday, an escalation of ...

Bahrain has put forward a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would authorise countries to use “all necessary means” – diplomatic language for force – to protect commercial shipping in and ...

Global air travel remains severely disrupted after the war in Iran forced the closure of major Middle Eastern hubs, including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi, stranding tens of thousands of ...

The United States will continue its strikes on Iran, with the pause applying only to attacks on Tehran’s energy sites, Semafor reported on Monday, citing a U.S. official, ...

Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said there had been “very good and productive” talks aiming at halting the ...

Israel should extend its border with Lebanon up to the Litani River deep inside the country’s south, Israel’s finance minister said on Monday as Israeli troops bombed bridges ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer summoned a national emergency meeting on Mondayto deal with the economic fallout from the escalating war in Iran, as Britain’s government borrowing costs surged to ...

Iran denied on Monday that it had engaged in negotiations with the United States, after President Donald Trump postponed a threat to bomb Iran’s power grid because of what ...

Israel said on Monday its own forces had misfired artillery that killed an Israeli farmer near the Lebanese frontier, the first Israeli civilian killed in a border conflict being waged ...

El Al Israel Airlines said on Monday it was reviewing its operations after the Transportation Ministry ordered a reduction of traffic at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. Israel’s ...

Iran will attack Israel’s power plants and those supplying U.S. bases across the Gulf region if President Donald Trump carries out his threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power ...

Israel’s military has been ordered to destroy all bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River and to step up the demolition of Lebanese homes near the Israeli border, the country’...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran threatened to escalate their war by attacking energy facilities in the Gulf, a potential widening of hostilities that could deepen a regional crisis ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran does not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, a significant escalation barely a day ...

A British nuclear-powered submarine equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles has taken position in the Arabian Sea, giving Britain the capability to launch long-range strikes if regional conflict escalates, the Daily ...