Lebanon and Israel resumed talks on Tuesday in the Italian capital, with Beirut hoping for progress towards securing an Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon under a U.S.-brokered deal, although expectations for swift progress were low.
U.S.-led diplomacy has emerged since Hezbollah and Israel returned to war on March 2 amid...
The European Union (EU) has coordinated efforts to raise 1 billion Dollars in aid for Gaza. The bloc’s top diplomat yesterday said that EU is working with 65 governments and organisations, including the White House and the United Nations.
The European Commission Vice President, Kaja Kallas, announced the fund after...
European Union Foreign Ministers convened in Brussels today to deliberate on a fresh tranche of sanctions targeting Russia, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and an array of international security matters.
Speaking to reporters ahead of the meeting, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said they hoped to secure agreement...
The United States and Iran have each claimed control of the Strait of Hormuz following a weekend of escalating attacks across West Asia, raising fresh concerns over regional security and efforts to revive diplomacy. The latest escalation began after Iran struck a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz...
Western leaders came to Turkiye to discuss security in an increasingly perilous world. They each left with a revolver and six rounds.
The unconventional gift from the host of this week's NATO summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was meant to showcase his country's growing defence industry.
But it left officials...
The Philippines commemorated on Friday the anniversary of a 2016 arbitration ruling, which invalidated China's expansive claims in the disputed South China Sea and which Washington and other allies have used as a rallying call against Beijing's growing assertiveness.
China refused to join the arbitration initiated by the Philippines in...
The U.S. issued new Iran-related sanctions on Friday targeting a key financier for Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and 13 other individuals and entities, following Tehran’s resumed attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, the Treasury Department said.
The sanctions took aim at Ali Ansari, an...
An Iranian official accused the United States of conducting an airstrike near the Bushehr nuclear power plant today. Iranian state news agency said the strike came around noon, hours after the US military’s Central Command said it had ended its strikes on Iran. US Central Command did not immediately...
Russia hammered Kyiv and the surrounding region with missiles and drones early on Monday, killing at least 28 people and exposing Ukraine’s critical shortage of U.S.-made air-defence interceptors, officials said.
Rescuers were digging bodies from the rubble of a Kyiv high-rise ripped open in the overnight bombardment. The latest attack...
