Tehran: Iran said it had yet to decide whether to attend a new round of peace negotiations with the United States, as Washington’s delegation prepared to depart for Pakistan on Monday. The uncertainty over the talks on ending the war that engulfed the…

Beijing: China has criticized a US attack on an Iranian-flagged container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and called on all sides to act responsibly and uphold a ceasefire agreement. “We are concerned about the use of force by the United States against…

Tehran: Iran’s Internet shutdown has now surpassed 1,248 hours or 52 days, making it the longest national-level blackout since Libya’s outage of nearly six months during the Arab Spring in 2011. But the comparison understates the scale: Iran’s populat…

Beirut: Less than a week after a fragile ceasefire was announced in Lebanon, a senior Anglophone journalist in the country has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the devastation people are seeing as they start to return home. Thousands of homes have been destr…

Paris: Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Jennie Shin, Rosemary Kelanic, Director of the Middle East programme at the think tank Defense Priorities, says that US President Donald Trump “has boxed himself into a corner”, explaining that “this war has failed, th…

Amsterdam: European natural gas prices rose sharply on Monday after Iran reversed its decision on reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. At the Amsterdam exchange, the benchmark TTF one-month forward contract climbed nearly 6% to pound 41.02 ($48.26) per …

Tehran: Irans Khatam al-Anbiya military headquarters has confirmed an attack by the US military on a ship in the Gulf of Oman in a statement carried by the semi-official Tasnim news agency. Tehran vowed to retaliate “soon” against what it describes as…