07 March at 13:49 PM, via News24
The US State Department approved the “emergency” sale of 12 000 bomb casings to Israel on Friday as the countries engage Iran in an escalating Middle East war.
06 March at 18:09 PM, via News24
Donald Trump has stressed that any deal with Iran must result in the country’s “unconditional surrender”, setting maximalist war objectives for the United States.
06 March at 15:30 PM, via News24
Israeli air strikes left behind massive destruction in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday morning, with the Israeli military saying it had destroyed Hezbollah targets.
06 March at 13:55 PM, via News24
US President Donald Trump encouraged Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq to launch attacks against Iran as the Middle East conflict widened, with Azerbaijan warning it would retaliate for being targeted by Iranian missiles.
06 March at 08:38 AM, via News24
Pop superstar Britney Spears was released from police custody Thursday morning after being arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated near Los Angeles.
05 March at 21:42 PM, via News24
One of the top officials overseeing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, will leave her role, Trump said on Thursday, a major staffing move that raises questions about the direction of the Republican president’s immigration agenda.
05 March at 21:42 PM, via News24
As tensions rise across the Middle East, Kenyans fear economic shocks, disrupted exports and risks to the more than 400 000 Kenyans working in Gulf states.
05 March at 20:03 PM, via News24
US President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted he should have a role in picking Iran’s next supreme leader after the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose son he said he found unacceptable.
05 March at 17:32 PM, via News24
A Pakistani man accused of planning to kill US President Donald Trump told jurors on Wednesday that he did not willingly work with Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to devise the plot, media said.
05 March at 11:21 AM, via News24
A second Iranian warship was heading toward Sri Lanka’s territorial waters, a day after a US submarine destroyed an Iranian frigate, killing at least 87 sailors, a minister told parliament.
04 March at 10:59 AM, via News24
Leaders in Israel and the United States have indicated that the conflict against Iran could continue for weeks.
04 March at 09:10 AM, via News24
Israeli strikes hit a Beirut hotel and residential complex in Lebanon’s east, Lebanese state media said, as Israel announced broad strikes in response to Hezbollah missile and drone launches.
04 March at 07:00 AM, via News24
The US military identified four of the first American soldiers killed in the war against Iran as the Trump administration warned the intensifying conflict would lead to more American casualties.
03 March at 20:28 PM, via News24
As US and Israeli airstrikes hit Iran, African capitals are divided – some denounce the attacks, others stay neutral, and many warn Iran against retaliating against key Gulf partners.
03 March at 10:50 AM, via News24
US President Donald Trump said the historical relationship between his country and the United Kingdom was “not like it used to be”, in an interview with British daily newspaper The Sun.
03 March at 07:00 AM, via News24
The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for dozens of locations in Lebanon, including a warning for residents in two southern Beirut neighbourhoods to stay away from several buildings ahead of imminent military action.
02 March at 12:10 PM, via News24
A total of 555 people have been killed across Iran in US and Israeli strikes that began two days ago, the Iranian Red Crescent said.
02 March at 10:59 AM, via News24
Hunkered down at his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, US President Donald Trump kept an unusually low profile after announcing the start of huge military strikes on Iran.
02 March at 07:00 AM, via News24
Israeli forces launched strikes on Lebanon including the capital Beirut, the military said, after Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader.
01 March at 14:56 PM, via News24
An Oman port and an oil tanker off its coast were attacked on Sunday, official media said, marking the first strikes on the sultanate – which mediated US-Iran talks – since Tehran launched a retaliation campaign.
01 March at 11:09 AM, via News24
A widening Middle East conflict looks set to create the most significant disruption for gas markets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended global trade four years ago.