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Middle East crisis live: Trump says Iran can call ‘if they want to talk’ amid impasse on negotiations

Israeli strikes killed 14 people and wounded 37 on Sunday, the health ministry said, amid an ongoing Israel-Lebanon ceasefire agreement. ![Members and supporters of Iran-backed Hezbollah mourn and bury four fighters

Iran war: What is happening on day 53 of the US-Israel conflict?

strikes on Iran and claiming he is “winning” the war, while dismissing critical reporting as “fake news”. ## In Israel: - Israel has been demanding the Lebanese government disarm Hezbollah, using its continued presence in southern Lebanon

Israel kills five in attacks on Lebanon after Trump announces de-escalation

News Agency (NNA) said on Tuesday that two Syrians were killed in an Israeli attack on a plant nursery where they were working in the town of Jebchit in Nabatieh governorate. Israeli drone strikes

Israel to intensify Lebanon offensive in bid to ‘crush’ Hezbollah

strikes,” he declared. The order is in line with calls from far-right coalition partners for an escalation of military action. The order comes despite the ceasefire agreed with Lebanon last month, which was recently

Iran war day 70: US, Iran trade fire in Hormuz amid ceasefire tensions

strikes on Hezbollah:** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed responsibility for the killing of a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut the previous day, saying “no terrorist is immune” from Israeli attacks. - **Israeli attacks kill

Lebanon’s PM slams Israel’s ‘war crimes’ as attack kills 3 rescue workers

strikes on a building in the town of Majdal Zoun on Tuesday killed five people, including three rescue workers who went to help those injured in ⁠the initial Israeli attack on the targeted building, Lebanon

Why did Israel and Iran trade fire, and how does it affect wider peace efforts?

strikes have killed at least 3,613 people. Hezbollah has killed at least 30 Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and three Israeli civilians. Tehran insists Lebanon be included in a broader ceasefire deal, something Israel

Iran war day 84: US-Iran talks advance amid mediation push

Israeli attacks, sharing footage of survivors being pulled from destroyed buildings for the first time. ## War diplomacy - **Nuclear ‘red lines’ must shift:** Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, said

Middle East crisis live: Trump warns ‘clock is ticking’ for Iran to reach peace deal

Lebanon on Sunday, including an **Islamic Jihad** commander, Lebanese authorities and state media said, despite the fragile ceasefire as **Hezbollah** called US-brokered talks between the two countries a “dead end”. ![Emergency workers inspect

Israel kills three in attacks on Lebanon, issues more displacement orders

Lebanon, the country’s National News Agency (NNA) reported, as the Israeli military issued new forced displacement orders for residents in the south. Israeli drone attacks targeting three vehicles on the Kafr Rumman-Jarmaq highway

Israeli strikes in Lebanon killed 10, including six paramedics, health ministry says

Israeli strikes in [Lebanon](https://www.theguardian.com/world/lebanon) killed 10 people, including six paramedics and a child, in the space of 24 hours, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Friday, placing further strain

What we know about the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel

Israeli news outlet tonight described Netanyahu convening a security cabinet meeting with just five minutes notice, shortly before the ceasefire announcement was made. Leaks from that meeting say ministers were not given a vote

US pushing Israeli de-escalation ahead of new talks: Lebanese official

Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, borders, prisoners, displaced people and reconstruction. The Reuters and AFP news agencies, both quoting an unnamed State Department official on Thursday, reported that the upcoming talks

Israel continues attacks on Lebanon despite extension of ceasefire

News Agency reported. The Israeli military also issued a forced evacuation order for the town of Deir Aames. Meanwhile, Israeli forces confirmed a claim by Iran-aligned Hezbollah that the group had used a missile

Lebanese return to devastated south as fragile 10-day truce takes hold

Lebanon’s National News Agency also reported that unexploded ordnance killed a boy in the town of Majdal Selem, while rescuers uncovered the bodies of at least a dozen people killed in earlier attacks

Iran war day 69: Tehran ‘reviewing’ US proposals; Israel bombs Beirut

Lebanon despite a US-brokered ceasefire, signalling a widening of the conflict beyond the country’s south. - **Hezbollah steps up attacks:** Hezbollah says its fighters carried out 17 targeted strikes against Israeli forces inside Lebanese

Iran war: What’s happening on day 63 as Trump signals possible attacks

Israeli strikes on the country’s south killed at least 15 people despite an ongoing ceasefire. - **Trump mulls US troop cuts in Italy, Spain:** The US president said he may pull US troops from Italy

Israeli attacks on eastern Lebanon village kill at least 12 people

News Agency reported on Tuesday. The Israeli military said in a statement that it struck more than 100 Hezbollah infrastructure sites and “terrorists” in the Bekaa Valley and across southern Lebanon in the wave

Israeli air attack kills at least two in southern Lebanon

News Agency (NNA) reported, as millions of people observed the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday. The air raids came a day after Israeli attacks across southern and eastern Lebanon killed at least

Deadlock over Iran's nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz cripples peace efforts

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