Around 50 people were killed and injured when a fire broke out at a shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, state media said Thursday
Iran has seized a foreign tanker in the Sea of Oman on charges of fuel smuggling, the judiciary said yesterday.
The death sentence was issued in March and later upheld by the Islamic republic's top court
United States President Donald Trump has said Iran has not agreed to inspections of its nuclear programme or to giving up enriching uranium.
The Pentagon said on Wednesday that US strikes 10 days ago had degraded Iran’s nuclear program by up to two years, suggesting the US military operation likely achieved its goals despite a far more cautious initial assessment that leaked to the public.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz vowed to retaliate against Iran-aligned Houthis after his country’s military intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israeli territory.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says Iran likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium “in a matter of months”, despite damage to several nuclear facilities from US and Israeli attacks, CBS News said Saturday.
An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed one person on Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
A global hunger monitor said yesterday that Gaza’s entire population continues to face a critical risk of famine, while half a million people face starvation.
At least 13 people, including three children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip amid a months-long Israeli blockade that has deepened the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn coastal enclave.
A Hamas delegation held two meetings with Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Doha this week but they produced no breakthrough in the search for a Gaza truce, sources close to the group said yesterday.
Israel’s military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen yesterday, with AFP journalists reporting explosions heard in the Jerusalem area.
A senior Hamas official said yesterday the group was no longer interested in truce talks with Israel and urged the international community to halt Israel’s “hunger war” against Gaza.
Israel’s security cabinet approved plans for an expanded operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Friday, adding to signs that attempts to stop the fighting and return hostages held by Hamas have made no progress.
Iran yesterday defended its “right” to enrich uranium despite growing Western concern that Tehran may be seeking nuclear weapons, and as talks with the United States were delayed.
Israel said it carried out a strike in Syria against "an extremist group" that attacked members of the Druze community, following through on a promise to defend the minority group as deadly sectarian violence spread near Damascus.
Gaza mediator Qatar yesterday said there was some progress in talks in Doha this week aimed at securing a new truce in the Israel-Hamas war.
The death toll from a powerful explosion at Iran's biggest port of Bandar Abbas has risen to at least 40, with more than 1,200 people injured, state media reported on Sunday, as firefighters worked to fully extinguish the fire
