Category: 1. Palestine

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

According to Iranian media, the Iranian Parliament has approved a proposal to shut the strait, pending the final approval of the Supreme National Security Council. 

Tensions in the Gulf reached a critical point on Sunday as Iranian lawmakers and military officials signaled serious intentions to close the Strait of Hormuz, a key global oil transit chokepoint, amid direct…

The United States has struck Iranian soil, hitting three of the country’s nuclear facilities.

US President Donald Trump is threatening more strikes if peace is not achieved.

But Iran has hit back, striking central and northern Israel.

So is this a major escalation in the conflict between Iran and Israel?

Is there a real danger of nuclear fallout?

How likely is Iran to strike US bases?

Cambodia’s PM Hun Manet announced that the decision would take effect from midnight on Sunday.

Cambodia has announced it will stop all fuel imports from its neighbour Thailand as relations have plunged to their lowest ebb in more than a decade after a Cambodian soldier was killed last month in a disputed area of the border.

Prime Minister Hun Manet announced the decision on Sunday, posting on social media that it would take effect from midnight.

Manet said energy companies would be able to…

Washington (Quds News Network)- US President Donald Trump on Sunday said the US strike on Iran’s nuclear sites was a “complete success.” He claimed that the facilities were “completely and totally obliterated.”

But US and Israeli military assessments offer a different view.

A senior US official, cited by the New York Times, confirmed that the Fordo site, Iran’s most fortified nuclear facility, was not destroyed. However, he said it was “severely damaged” and taken…

Here are the key events on day 1,214 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is how things stand on Sunday, June 22:

Fighting

• Russia has struck several locations, including Chernihiv, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 20 over the past day, the Kyiv Independent has reported.
• Ukraine has said it has evidence that Russia is preparing new military operations on European territory, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said on X.
• Emergency workers have…

United States Vice President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth have said that the US is not seeking to topple the government in Iran via “regime change” and is not at war with the country in the wake of its unprecedented surprise attack overnight on three of Iran’s nuclear sites.

The comments on Sunday followed Washington, DC joining Israel’s strikes on its arch-foe, which have been met by daily retaliatory strikes from Iran and are now in their 10th day.

Vance said on…