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Iran’s leader and security council ‘still need to approve’ peace deal with US

Israel to end its offensive in Lebanon. On Saturday, Trump spoke to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the key original advocate of the war when it began in February, to try to reassure

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon kill 17, reports say

announced on Wednesday that he was sending a team of human rights investigators to Lebanon, at the request of the Lebanese government. The team will look at possible human rights violations committed by all sides

Iranian forces seize two ships in strait of Hormuz amid doubts over further peace talks with US

ceasefire. “I expect to be bombing because I think that’s a better attitude to go in with,” Trump said in an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday. “We’re ready

U.S. strikes Iran. And, immigration courts use new tactic to speed up deportations

announced that it launched attacks yesterday on Iranian boats and missile launch sites** in Southern Iran. U.S. Central Command Spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said that Iran's boats were trying to lay mines

Middle East crisis live: Israel and Iran exchange fresh round of strikes for first time since April ceasefire

Lebanon, which makes it hard to see how Trump can negotiate an end to the war on Iran as Tehran insists that the conflict can only end when attacks on “all fronts” have ceased

Three killed and dozens injured in Israeli strike on Gaza City, medics and witnesses say

ceasefire agreement by failing to disarm. The latter phases of [a US-led peace plan for Gaza](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70155nked7o) have yet to come into force, with progress stalling since the US and Israel started

Peace talks in doubt as U.S. seizes Iranian ship

Israel and Iran is set to expire on Wednesday. Here's more news from the Middle East war on Monday: ![Security personnel stand guard at a security checkpost along a road temporarily closed near

Lebanon health ministry says Israeli strikes kill 14 in deadliest day since ceasefire began

ceasefire and that Israel would act against it, telling people to head north and west away from the towns. The towns are north of the Litani River and the zone in southern Lebanon occupied

Giorgia Meloni’s moral retreat on Gaza

Lebanon quite tolerable. Once again, calculation intervened: She could not afford to alienate conservative Catholic voters who form the backbone of her political base. Meloni’s foreign policy follows this script of moral performativity. Italy

Iran war: What’s happening on day 74 as Tehran says ready for ‘aggression’

ceasefire was on “massive life support”. Trump on Monday rejected Iran’s latest response to his peace proposal, calling it “stupid”. Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Iranian forces are ready to retaliate

Iran considering US proposal to end war, official says

announced a ceasefire under which Iran ended its drone and missile strikes on Gulf countries including the UAE, but few vessels have been able to transit the strait since then. The US also imposed

Trump faces slew of ‘bad options’ on Iran as diplomacy falters

ceasefire with Iran, in place since April 8, is now on “life support”, and members of his administration have increasingly hinted that the US could resume fighting. But analysts say for all of Trump

Israeli attacks on Gaza increased by 35% since Iran ceasefire: Report

announcement, but in reality and on the ground, the war has not stopped,” he added. His family has been living in a shelter in the ruins of Khan Younis, once Gaza’s second-largest city

Are Iran, US really close to a breakthrough ‘deal’?

Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others”. The president added that the time and place of the signing of an agreement would be “announced shortly”. He added that

Iran warns US naval blockade threatens ceasefire

Israel started on February 28. On Wednesday, Iran’s parliament speaker and former IRGC and police commander Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who led the Iranian delegation at the weekend talks in Pakistan, held a rare phone

Israel escalates strikes in Lebanon as Netanyahu vows to ‘crush’ Hezbollah

ceasefire that came into effect on 17 April, both sides have continued to exchange fire on a near-daily basis. “I have ordered an even greater acceleration of our operations,” Netanyahu said in a video

Iran war: What’s happening on day 66 as Trump announces Hormuz mission?

Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28. Despite Trump’s announcement, oil prices have [failed to ease](/economy/2026/5/4/oil-prices-flat-as-trumps-plan-for-strait-of-hormuz-fails-to-move-markets) as the international benchmark Brent crude was essentially flat on Monday morning. In response to Trump

Netanyahu downplays US-Israel rift after Trump confirms criticism

announcement that the Israeli military would bomb the capital, Beirut, have risked derailing the talks between the US and Iran. Tehran has suggested that it may respond militarily to Israel’s assault in Lebanon. Trump

Middle East crisis live: US attacks Iran missile sites as Tehran negotiators hold talks in Qatar

ceasefire that began on 8 April and came as Iran’s top negotiator and its foreign minister were in Doha for talks with Qatar’s prime minister over the potential deal

Israel’s ruling coalition proposes early elections amid ultra-Orthodox anger at Netanyahu

announced they would fight the upcoming election on a joint list. Bennett and Lapid have been outspoken critics of Netanyahu’s handling of the country’s wars since the Hamas attack on 7 October