The United States and Iran are holding their highest-level talks in years in Islamabad in a Pakistan-brokered bid to turn a fragile two-week ceasefire into a lasting end to a war that has roiled ...

Friday marks six months since Gaza's ceasefire deal took effect, a milestone largely lost in the confusion over the new and even more fragile ceasefire in the Iran war.

Lebanon is facing a food security crisis as the Iran war disrupts supplies of goods inside the ‌country, the ‌United Nations ‌World ⁠Food Program said on ⁠Friday. "What we're witnessing is not just a ...

The European Union and Washington are closing in on an agreement to coordinate on producing and securing critical minerals, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The potential deal would include ...

Israel is intensifying strikes on bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River, raising concerns it aims to isolate the entire area south of the river from the north, Lebanese officials and state media said.

The head of Israel’s military, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, has said that the “main combat arena is in Lebanon.” The mission is to keep weakening Hezbollah, Zamir said. He was speaking on Thursday to Israeli ...

China's top diplomat criticized US pressure on North Korea, Pyongyang state media reported on Friday, after he vowed to deepen ties with the diplomatically isolated nuclear state during a visit. The ...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Friday at the Vatican for his first meeting with Pope Leo XIV, a private audience expected to be dominated by the Iran war. The French leader, who arrived with ...

A former Iranian foreign minister, Kamal Kharazi, died Thursday from wounds suffered in US-Israel strikes on April 1, Iranian media reported. Kharazi, 81, had been serving as the head of the Strategic ...

Phone-maker Apple led smartphone shipments in the first quarter, growing 5% year-on-year, ⁠even as overall ⁠global shipments remained ⁠under pressure due to a shortage of memory components and weak ...

On rainy spring nights in a forest near the Polish capital, a citizen “Frog Patrol” springs into action — humans helping amphibians survive dangerous road crossings for a chance to enjoy millennia-old ...

Artificial intelligence companies Cohere of Canada and Aleph Alpha of Germany are in talks to merge and have Berlin's support for a potential deal, newspaper Handelsblatt reported late on Thursday.