The deadline passed on Monday for the start of a U.S. military blockade of ships leaving Iran's ports, and Tehran threatened to retaliate against ports of its Gulf neighbours after weekend talks on ending the war broke down.
I am not a diplomat or a security analyst. My passion in life has always been to build bridges, to use whatever reach I had to move things in a positive direction.
Israeli troops launched an attack on Monday to seize a key town in south Lebanon from Hezbollah fighters holed up there, pressing the war on the Iran-backed group on the eve of rare talks between Israeli and Lebanese government envoys.
On the first day of his visit to Algeria, Pope Leo XIV delivered a message of democratic hope to a regime that has spent decades ensuring such hope goes nowhere.
The Middle East is on a knife’s edge. A two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran has bought the region a temporary exhale, but few serious observers believe the underlying tensions have been resolved.
Turkey's foreign minister raised concerns on Monday about Iran or the United States proposing any new regulations for transiting the Strait of Hormuz, and said he saw difficulties around proposals to re-open the waterway with an international force.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan accused Israel on Monday of seeking to make Turkey its "new enemy », the latest salvo in an increasingly theatrical confrontation between Ankara and Jerusalem that reveals far more about the fragility of Erdogan's domestic position than about any genuine geopolitical rivalry.
A U.S. naval blockade of Iran is a major, open-ended military endeavor that could trigger fresh retaliation from Tehran and put tremendous strain on an already fragile ceasefire, experts say
Pope Leo criticized violations of international law by 'neocolonial' world powers in a forceful speech on Monday during an Africa tour, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump's direct attack on the leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church.
The head of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) branch in Ankara, Ümit Erkol, was arrested and remanded in custody on Sunday following questioning in a corruption investigation.
Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had summoned Iraq's ambassador over what it described as threats targeting the kingdom and other Gulf states from drones launched from Iraqi territory.
In the hours following the collapse of Iran-US negotiations in Pakistan, Oman's Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi took to X with a message of studied diplomatic balance.
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