•A Lebanese civil defense worker (R) stands with a resident at the site of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier in central Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday Negotiators from Iran and the U.S. prepared for high-level talks with their ceasefire still shaky today, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained its [&hel...
•A vessel around the Strait of Hormuz Iran announced alternative routes today for ships travelling through the Strait of Hormuz, citing the risk of sea mines in the main zone of the vital waterway. Tehran has agreed to temporarily reopen the Strait, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil usually passes, as part of a […]
•Trump US President Donald Trump today warned against supplying weapons to Iran, threatening immediate 50 per cent US tariffs on any country that does so. “A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no […]...
After a blockade that lasted over a month, pushing fuel prices to the rooftop across the world, Iran has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz under certain conditions. The Strait of Hormuz is a waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. On the north coast lies Iran, and on the south […]
•Smoke rises from the site of a US-Israeli strike on the Iranian capital Tehran, yesterday The United States and Israel hit an Iranian petrochemicals hub in the country’s southwest last night, without causing any casualties, Iranian media reported the authorities as saying. Five people had been killed in a previous strike on the site in [&hel...
•Trump President Donald Trump warned that “a whole civilization will die” in Iran today if the country does not heed his ultimatum to accept US war demands. The wildly provocative statement — the latest in a recent torrent of strident language by Trump — prompted swift and severe criticism, with one of his former close […]
•Trump and US warplanes US President Donald Trump has warned that all of Iran could be “taken out” today at the expiry of a deadline he issued for the Islamic republic to reopen the key Strait of Hormuz waterway. “The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow […]
•US commando American commandos deployed deep into Iranian territory to rescue a downed airman, US news outlets reported yesterday, hours after President Donald Trump announced that the crew member had been recovered “safe and sound”. Tehran said this week it had shot down an F-15 warplane, the first US fighter jet to go down inside […]...
•Debris consistent with US Air Force F-15 Iran launched a hunt for the US crew whose jet Iranian media said had been shot down by the Islamic republic’s air defence systems today, deploying troops and offering a bounty. US media reported US special forces had rescued one of the two crew members, and a local […]
• A trader works at his desk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Oil prices spiked and stocks sank today after Donald Trump reiterated that US forces would hammer Iran for another two to three weeks but offered no solution to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz that has crippled […]

