Edward Finkelstein

Iranian chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf declared this week that the United States and Iran would jointly "guarantee Lebanon's unity and the integrity of its territories." 

Lebanese Kataeb party chief Samy Gemayel drew a hard line Monday, declaring that Lebanese sovereigntists would never accept living alongside an armed Hezbollah, regardless of what is agreed in the US-Iran talks in Switzerland.

Iranian and American negotiators have reached agreement on mechanisms to halt fighting in Lebanon and secure the Strait of Hormuz, Pakistan and Qatar announced Monday following the first round of formal negotiations at the Bürgenstock resort in the Swiss Alps.

The ink on the US-Iran memorandum of understanding was barely dry before Tehran's chief negotiator was already drawing lines in the sand.

As the United States and Iran prepare to sign their Memorandum of Understanding in Switzerland on Friday June 19, here are the 14 points of the agreement as revealed by multiple media outlets.

France is hosting a conference Friday bringing together civil society groups and foreign ministers from dozens of countries to push for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the UN-backed New York Declaration on Palestinian statehood.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday on his Truth Social network that the United States would strike Iran "very hard tonight," declaring that Iran's military capabilities had been largely destroyed.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan escalated his rhetorical offensive against Israel on Wednesday, telling lawmakers from his ruling AK Party that Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Syria had reached a point where they "also threaten Turkey », a claim that says far more about Turkish domestic politics than it does about regional security realities.

The nerve is breathtaking. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took to X on Saturday to rebuke Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, suggesting that Israel - not Iran - is Lebanon's "true enemy." 

In a striking political declaration, Fahad Al Masri, President of the National Salvation Front in Syria, has issued a bold call for a strategic alliance between post-Assad Syria, the United States and Israel, a move that would represent a seismic shift in the region's diplomatic landscape.

For over a decade, Syrian airspace was a no-fly zone that airlines wouldn't touch. Now it's one of the busiest corridors in the Middle East.

Paris and several French cities descended into chaos on Saturday night as violent clashes erupted following PSG's Champions League final victory over Arsenal in Budapest, scenes that have become a grim ritual whenever the Qatar-backed club wins a major trophy.