At a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran, the United States said all options regarding Iran remain on the table, Iran warned it would respond lawfully to any aggression, Russia urged Washington to return to rationality, and the United Nations called on all parties to exercise restraint. The Security Council session on Iran was More
The UN Security Council (UNSC) will meet on Thursday to discuss the situation in Iran, according to a spokeswoman for Somalia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. Somalia holds the rotating presidency of the council for January, Xinhua reports. “I can now confirm that the Security Council presidency intends to schedule a briefing on the More
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East has announced the launch of the second phase of the US mediation plan aimed at ending the war in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports. Steve Witkoff said in a social media post on Wednesday that Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza is “moving from a ceasefire to More
Following recent unrest in Iran, US President Donald Trump has said he has been informed that the “killings” in the country have stopped. In response, Iran’s Foreign Minister claimed that “terrorist elements” were responsible for the violence, accusing them of deliberately increasing casualties to provoke US intervention. Violent protests erupted in several Iranian cities amid More
Three diplomats have told Reuters that some personnel at the US military’s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar have been advised to leave the base by Wednesday evening amid rising tensions between Washington and Tehran. According to a Reuters report, the move is a change in posture and not a formal evacuation order. One of the diplomats More
At least 22 people were killed and around 80 others injured when a construction crane fell onto a passenger train in Thailand on Wednesday morning. The accident took place on Wednesday morning in the Sikhio district of Nakhon Ratchasima province, 230km (143 miles) northeast of Bangkok, Al Jazeera reported. The train was traveling from the More
The United States has urged its citizens to leave Iran immediately, according to a media report on Tuesday. “Leave Iran now,” the US stated in an alert published on its “virtual embassy” website for Iran. “Have a plan for departing Iran that does not rely on US government assistance,” CBC News reported. The alert advised: More
At least six Pakistani policemen were killed and as many others wounded in two separate explosions in Tank and Lakki Marwat districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, media reports said. A remote-controlled bomb exploded near an armoured police vehicle on Gomal Bazaar road in Tank district, killing six policemen and injuring three others, Aaj More
The Iranian government has declared three days of national mourning for those it described as “martyrs”, including members of the security forces killed in recent protests, according to Tasnim News Agency. In a statement, the government said the president and cabinet members were mourning the victims of the latest unrest. It also called for nationwide More
Iran’s Parliamentary Speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has warned that regional US military bases and Israel would be considered “legitimate targets” if America were to strike the Islamic Republic. Speaking at a meeting on Sunday, Ghalibaf stated: “In the event of any attack on Iran, the occupied territories and all-American military centres, bases and ships in More
