U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon arrival for meetings at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., Dec. 29, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump on Monday appeared open to additional military action against Iran if the country attempts to build up…
Iran’s former foreign minister argues Israel, backed by the US, has killed every opportunity for peace. Months after being attacked by the United States and Israel, Iran finds itself in the crosshairs again, with Israeli officials lobbying US President Donald Trump to address Tehran’s ballistic missiles. Veteran Iranian diplomat Javad Zarif tells host Steve Clemons…
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was taken to hospital after being beaten when she was arrested last week, her family says. The 53-year-old human rights activist told them in a phone call on Sunday that she was brought to an emergency department twice after being “attacked by plain clothed agents with severe and…
Burkina Faso’s security minister headed to Tehran on Nov. 12, 2025, for high-level talks with Iranian officials. The visit was a fruitful one: The West African nation reopened its Iranian embassy, finalized new agreements on security cooperation and held discussions about strengthening relations in agriculture and industry. Far from being a routine bilateral diplomatic event…
Reuters Water levels in Tehran’s Amirkabir dam are at 8% of capacity, officials say Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country’s worst drought in decades. Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran’s official news agency Irna…
President Masoud Pezeshkian also says that Tehran will ‘overcome obstacles’ if wide-ranging UN sanctions are reimposed. Iran’s top security body has warned that action by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to reimpose international sanctions will “effectively suspend” its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog. The warning from the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC)…
Rachel Muller-Heyndyk BBC News Reuters Lt Gen Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s intelligence agency chief, just weeks after a White House rebuke of a review assessing the impact of American strikes on Iran. Lt Gen Jeffery…
Head of US Defense Intelligence Agency Jeffrey Kruse fired alongside two senior Navy officials in latest purge. United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s preliminary intelligence assessment angered President Donald Trump for reporting that the US attack on Iranian nuclear sites in June had inflicted limited damage, according to reports….
Seventy-six people were killed in a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan, a provincial official said Wednesday. “Seventy-six citizens of the country … lost their lives in the incident, and three others were seriously injured,” Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, Herat provincial government spokesman, said in a statement. Map…
MTN Group on Monday disclosed that it is now the subject of a grand jury investigation by the US department of justice. The investigation will look into MTN’s operations in Afghanistan (now disposed of) and Iran (where it owns 49% of Irancell). Both countries are politically volatile and both face US sanctions (sweeping in the…
