Mena Today

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a rare public rebuke of Israel's military tactics in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah militants, saying it was unnecessary to bomb entire apartment buildings to hunt militants.

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.

Shortly after the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran on February 28, U.S. President Donald Trump laid out a host of objectives, from destroying Iran's ballistic missile capabilities to ensuring Tehran can never have a nuclear weapon.

Syria has signed a contract with American energy giant ConocoPhillips and Novaterra Energy to develop several gas fields and boost production at existing ones, state media reported Tuesday, the latest in a series of major energy agreements as Damascus seeks to rebuild its war-ravaged infrastructure.

Libya's internationally recognised Government of National Unity (GNU) received Togo's Foreign Minister Robert Dussey in Tripoli this week, in a meeting that underscores Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah's continued efforts to build diplomatic and economic partnerships with African nations.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters at the G7 meetings in France that the memorandum of understanding with Iran states clearly that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.

A Russian artist critical of President Vladimir Putin was shot and killed in the eastern Polish town of Biala Podlaska, a Polish prosecutor said on Tuesday.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an attack on a Syrian interior ministry camp in the city of Raqqa that killed one member of the security personnel a day earlier.

Doubts swirled around the U.S.-Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East with warnings that shipping and energy exports could take weeks to recover, although U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the text would be made public soon.

Hezbollah Secretary General Naïm Kassem has publicly thanked Iran's chief negotiator and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf for securing what he described as a commitment to halt Israeli military operations in Lebanon.

Iran's top negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf will be present for the signing of an interim agreement to end the war with the U.S., an Iranian deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday, according to Tasnim news agency.

Doubts swirled around the U.S.-Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East as shippers said it could take weeks for confidence to return after any reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamental questions remained unanswered.