Regional powers met in Pakistan to discuss how to end the fighting in the Middle East after about 2,500 U.S. Marines arrived in the region and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war.
Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran.
Israel is renewing its assault on southern Lebanon, including targeting commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force in Beirut.
Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea.
Iran’s leaders are scrambling to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years before he was killed in the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment.
Israel launched strikes on Iran while Tehran responded by firing drones and missiles at Jerusalem and U.S. military installations.
Iran and the United States held a third round of nuclear talks in Geneva as Washington sends airships and warships to the Middle East to underscore the U.S. demand that Iran stop enriching uranium.
The Swiss Foreign Ministry says Iran and the United States will hold a second round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear program this week.
Iran marks the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution as leaders face pressure from the U.S. and anger at home.
U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East again are urging restraint from both the United States and Iran as the Trump administration warns of a possible strike and builds up its military presence in the region.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for supporting Iranian protesters.
Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency.
Iran’s supreme leader has addressed the ongoing protests, insisting that “rioters must be put in their place.”.
Demonstrations sparked by Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural provinces, with at least seven people killed.
Iran said 120 Iranians detained in the United States for illegally entering the country will be returned to Iran in the coming days.
The U.N. Security Council on has rejected a last-ditch effort to delay reimposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the U_N_ to blast Israeli and U_S_ attacks in June as inflicting “a grievous blow upon international trust and the very prospect of peace in the region.”.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected direct negotiations with the United States over his country’s nuclear program.
World leaders are gathering at one of the most turbulent and divisive moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations.
An agreement between Tehran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog provides for U.N. inspectors to access all of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency have signed an agreement in Cairo to open the way for resuming cooperation, including on ways of resuming inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The pictures from this week’s military parade in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the earlier economic gathering would seem to offer a striking, maybe even defiant, message to the United States and its allies — evidence of a possible new reconfiguration of rising power in Eurasia, an “Axis of Upheaval,” as one U.S. analyst has called it.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has hosted a military parade in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
For most of his quarter-century rule, President Vladimir Putin visited places like Paris, London, Vienna and New York.
The deputy head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog plans to visit Iran to mend strained relations.
Talks between Iranian and European diplomats in Istanbul have ended with the sides agreeing to meet again to seek to unpick the deadlock over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Iran says it is ready to engage in talks with the United States, but only if Washington takes meaningful steps to rebuild trust.
The United Kingdom, France and Germany have agreed to restore tough U.N. sanctions on Iran by the end of August if there has been no concrete progress on a nuclear deal.
Iran’s foreign minister says the country is open to resuming nuclear talks with the U.S. if guaranteed no further attacks.
A senior Israeli official says Israel believes deeply buried stocks of enriched uranium at one Iranian nuclear facility hit by the U.S. military are potentially retrievable.
Iran’s president has ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after American airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities.
Pakistan has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for bombing Iran, less than 24 hours after saying he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for defusing a recent crisis with India.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will strengthen its deterrence capabilities so that no country would dare attack it.
Russia has maintained a delicate balancing act in the Middle East for decades, trying to navigate its warm relations with Israel even as it has developed strong economic and military ties with Iran.
Iran and the United States will hold a fifth round of talks in Rome on Friday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Iran’s president says his country will continue talks over its rapidly advancing nuclear program but will not withdraw from its rights because of U.S. threats.
Ahead of his second go-around in the White House, President Donald Trump spoke with certainty about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his new administration and finding lasting peace in the devastating 18-month conflict in Gaza.
Iran’s president has visited those injured in a huge explosion that rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports.
Iranian state television has confirmed that the second round of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks will be held in Rome after earlier confusion over where the negotiations would take place.
Talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program had appeared ready to leave the Middle East, as an Italian source and others said the next round of negotiations would take place in Rome.
President Donald Trump is betting that a beleaguered Iran is so vulnerable following a tumultuous 18 months in the Middle East that it might finally be ready to abandon its nuclear program.
Iran’s president again has pledged his nation is “not after a nuclear bomb” ahead of talks between Tehran and the United States.
Iran’s president says Tehran has rejected direct negotiations with the United States in response to a letter from President Donald Trump over its rapidly advancing nuclear program.
An Iranian official who was key to the country's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers has reportedly tendered his resignation from the government of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Tens of thousands of Iranians are marking the anniversary of the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Hamas has named the next three Israeli hostages it plans to release as part of the ceasefire deal.
Iran’s government seems to be welcoming decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate.
The presidents of Russia and Iran have signed a broad cooperation pact to deepen their partnership amid stinging Western sanctions.
Israel supplied Iran with centrifuge platforms containing explosives for its nuclear enrichment program in an act of sabotage.
The Iranian rial has fallen to its lowest level in history, losing more than 10% of value since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in November.
An Iranian official says authorities have paused the process of implementing a new, stricter law on women’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab.
Iran will begin enriching uranium with thousands of advanced centrifuges at its two main nuclear facilities at Fordo and Natanz.
The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran this week to meet with officials including its new president.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah has chosen Sheikh Naim Kassem to succeed longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be shaking hands this week with multiple world leaders, including those from China, India, Turkey and Iran.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Iran’s president at a time when Tehran is supplying weapons for Moscow’s war in Ukraine and concerns are growing over escalating attacks between Israel and Iran and its militant allies.
Iran’s supreme leader has praised the country’s recent missile strike on Israel and said it is ready to do it again if necessary.
Iran’s new president is signaling to world leaders that he wants to open what he's calling a “constructive” chapter in his country’s international relations.
The head of the United Nations is warning world leaders that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are driving modern civilization toward “a powder keg that risks engulfing the world."
Iran’s president accused Israel of seeking a wider war in the Middle East and laying “traps” to lead his country into a wider conflict.
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran.
Iran’s new reformist president is insisting that Tehran didn’t want to enrich uranium at near-weapons grade levels but had been forced by the U.S. withdrawal from its nuclear deal with world powers.
Iran’s new president has slammed the West, saying that Israel is “committing massacres” in the war in Gaza and is using European and American weapons to do so.
Iraqi security officials have said an explosion targeted a site used by the U.S. military next to the Baghdad airport, one day before an expected visit by the Iranian president.
Iran’s president has ordered an investigation into the death of a man in custody after activists alleged he was tortured to death by police in the north of the country.
President Joe Biden’s top Middle East adviser on Tuesday held talks in Doha with senior Qatari leaders on the ongoing efforts to complete a cease-fire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas.
Iran’s supreme leader has opened the door to renewed negotiations with the United States over his country’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Iran’s hard-line parliament has approved all members of reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian’s Cabinet, the first time in over two decades a leader has been able to get all of his officials through the body.
Iran has rejected a call by three European countries urging it to refrain from any retaliatory attacks that would further escalate regional tensions.
The leaders of France, Germany and Britain have endorsed the latest push by mediators United States, Qatar and Egypt to broker an agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has proposed former nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi as the country’s new foreign minister and named a woman as housing minister.
Iran’s newly-elected president has reappointed a U.S.-educated official as director of the country’s nuclear department.
The Israeli military has ordered another mass evacuation in large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza, saying its forces will soon operate there in response to Palestinian rocket fire.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says a short-range projectile was behind the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh.
Hezbollah’s leader warned that the militant group's conflict with Israel has entered a “new phase.”.
The militant Palestinian group Hamas has a history of swift and smooth replacement of fallen leaders killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in Tehran.
