Iran says it believes the remaining workers trapped by an explosion at a coal mine in the country’s east have died, bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 49
September 24, 2024
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September 24, 2024
Iran's Quds Force commander told Iraqi political leaders last week to ease criticism of the prime minister who has been embroiled in a row over spying
September 24, 2024
Hezbollah's media office said on Tuesday that Israel was dropping leaflets with a "very dangerous" barcode on them onto Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, warning that scanning the code by
September 24, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief on Tuesday called on anyone with influence in the Middle East to seek to avert an escalation in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as
September 24, 2024
More than 30 flights to and from Beirut on Tuesday have been cancelled, according to the Rafic Hariri International Airport's website.
September 24, 2024
Lebanese health authorities have raised the death toll from two days of Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah militants in Lebanon to 564
September 24, 2024
US officials work feverishly to stop Israel-Hezbollah confrontation ‘spiraling to a regional war’
September 24, 2024
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies on Monday warned that actions and counter-actions in the Middle East risked dragging the region into a broader
September 24, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib on Monday that China firmly supported Lebanon in safeguarding its sovereignty and security and
September 24, 2024
Oil prices climbed about 2% to a three-week high on Tuesday on news of monetary stimulus from China, the world's top crude importer, and amid concerns that growing
September 24, 2024
Families from south Lebanon clogged the highways north on Monday, fleeing an expanding Israeli bombardment for an uncertain future with
September 23, 2024
The United States is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East given escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, the
September 23, 2024
The Pentagon says the U.S. is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East in response to a sharp spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon that is raising the risk of a greater regional war
September 23, 2024
Iran’s president accused Israel of seeking a wider war in the Middle East and laying “traps” to lead his country into a wider conflict
September 23, 2024
President Joe Biden recognized the United Arab Emirates as a major defense partner of the United States on Monday after talks with its
September 23, 2024
Escalating crisis in Lebanon further endangers Biden’s efforts at preventing wider war
September 23, 2024
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree forming a new government under Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported on Monday.
September 23, 2024
Iran is ready to start nuclear negotiations on the sidelines of the U.N.
September 23, 2024
Turkey, among the world's sharpest critics of the Israeli military operation in Gaza, will use the U.N.
September 23, 2024
Two strikes by Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians, including four children, in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, medics said, as heavy rains flooded
September 23, 2024
Lebanon's health ministry says Israeli strikes on Monday killed more than 490 Lebanese, including more than 90 women and children, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war as the Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of a widening air campaign against Hezbollah
September 23, 2024
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has ordered all members to stop using any type of communication devices after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its Hezbollah
September 23, 2024
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday that 12 people had been arrested for being operatives collaborating with Israel and planning acts against Iran's security.
September 22, 2024
Cyprus's president called for restraint over escalating tensions in the Middle East in separate telephone conversations with the Lebanese and Israeli prime ministers on Saturday,
September 21, 2024
Rescue workers in Beirut searched on Saturday for people still missing in rubble a day after an Israeli airstrike, targeting Hezbollah
September 21, 2024
The Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs was one of the Lebanese militant group’s top military officials
September 20, 2024
A top United Nations official on Friday urged all countries with influence over Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah "to leverage it now" to
September 20, 2024
Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah group confirmed in the early hours of Saturday that its top military commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed, calling him "one of its top leaders", without
September 20, 2024
Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah operations commander killed in an Israeli strike on Friday, had a $7 million bounty on his head for two 1983 Beirut truck bombings that killed more than
September 20, 2024
Israeli public broadcaster Kan said on Friday around 150 rockets were fired from Lebanon across the border.
September 20, 2024
Lebanon's Hezbollah was still handing its members new Gold Apollo branded pagers hours before thousands of the devices blew up this week, two
September 20, 2024
Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on Friday, vowing to
September 20, 2024
The U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon urged de-escalation on Friday after a big increase in hostilities at the Lebanese-Israeli border, where Israel and the Iran-backed
September 20, 2024
For millions of Lebanese, this week's mass explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies and the bloody aftermath are painfully similar to the horrific explosion four years ago of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates that tore through Beirut's port
September 20, 2024
Gold soared above the $2,600 level on Friday for the first time, extending a rally boosted by bets for further U.S. interest rate cuts, and rising tensions in the
September 20, 2024
CNN's Jake Tapper speaks to five families of American hostages being held by Hamas.
September 19, 2024
Father of American hostage held by Hamas says Lebanon attacks treat ‘agony with more agony’
September 19, 2024
There are no changes to U.S. military posture in the Middle East, the Pentagon told reporters on Thursday when asked about recent deadly
September 19, 2024
The United States on Thursday warned all parties in the Middle East against escalation as tensions between Iran-backed Lebanese movement
September 19, 2024
U.S.
September 19, 2024
Explosions in booby-trapped radios and pagers in Lebanon this week seriously disrupted its fragile health sector, the World Health Organization chief said on Thursday.
September 19, 2024
The impression that Israel is at a stalemate or that there is a rift between leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli public over the fate of the hostages is misleading. His hold on power is solid.
September 19, 2024
Turkey is reviewing its measures to secure the communication devices used by its armed forces after the deadly blasts in Lebanon, a Turkish defence ministry official said on Thursday
September 19, 2024
The sale of a stake in the Middle East, North Africa and central Asia Starbucks franchise operated by Kuwait's AlShaya Group is on hold,
September 19, 2024
The specter of all-out combat between Israel and Hezbollah seems closer than ever before
September 18, 2024
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September 18, 2024
Israel notified US ahead of Tuesday’s Lebanon operation but gave no details of what was planned, sources say
September 18, 2024
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