Category: 2. Middle East

DUBAI, June 1 (Reuters) – Iran’s Tasnim news agency said on Monday that Tehran’s negotiating team is stopping exchanges of messages with the United States through mediators due to attacks on Lebanon, as diplomatic efforts to end the…

Israel said Monday it would once again target Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold mostly spared heavy attacks since April, as it stages its deepest incursion into Lebanon in two decades.

The UN Security Council is expected to hold an…

France said on Monday it had detained a Russia-linked oil tanker in the Atlantic over the weekend, with the Kremlin comparing the latest seizure aimed at tackling Moscow’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet to “piracy”.

Since September, France has…

BEIRUT — Traffic jams paralyzed the roads leading out of Beirut’s southern suburbs on Monday after Israel ordered its military to carry out strikes against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in the Lebanese capital and as Israeli forces…

By Jonathan Saul and Renee Maltezou

ATHENS, June 1 (Reuters) – Shipping executives meeting in Athens on Monday said that any peace deal worked out between the United States and Iran would need to offer clear rules allowing vessels to resume normal…

LONDON, June 1 (Reuters) – Britain has blocked Cenk Uygur, a left-wing Turkish-American media personality, and his nephew, Hasan Piker, a U.S. left-wing commentator and influencer, from entering the country to speak at events, both said on…

DUBAI, June 1 (Reuters) – Iran on Monday blamed the slow pace of efforts to end the U.S.-Iran conflict on a lack of trust, contradictory positions from Washington and continued Israeli attacks in the region.

“Negotiations have started amid severe…

An ex-Syrian general and a former senior Syrian police officer went on trial in Vienna on Monday, accused of torturing opponents of the now-deposed regime of Bashar al-Assad.

The two are accused “of having, on numerous occasions, ordered or failed…

JEURSALEM, June 1 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement on Monday ordered the military to attack targets in the Lebanese capital Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh.

(Reporting by…

June 1 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Monday said that Iran really wanted to make a deal with the U.S. and that it would be a good one for Washington and its allies.

His post comes only hours after the U.S. military said it struck Iranian…