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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has spoken to Al Jazeera about the status of Iran’s nuclear programme in the aftermath of US and Israeli strikes on its facilities.

US President Donald Trump, speaking at the NATO summit in The Hague, hailed the Israel-Iran ceasefire as progressing ‘very well’, taking credit for Israel’s decision to abort a full-scale aerial strike. Alongside NATO’s Mark Rutte, he praised Netanyahu’s limited retaliation as ‘a great thing’, despite the Israeli PM’s claim of Iranian truce violations. Simultaneously, Trump pressured allies to boo...

Iran’s state TV says it is being attacked by Israel in latest wave of missile strikes on Tehran.

Elijah Magnier, a military and political analyst, says he believes the hostilities between Israel and Iran will only get worse, but that Israeli support for the war may wane if the destruction continues. “I think it’s going to continue escalating because we are just in the first days of the war that Israel declared on Iran,” he told Al Jazeera. “And also the Israeli officials, the prime minister a...

An Iranian missile has just made impact in Israel's city of Haifa. Iran's armed forces have warned Israelis to leave the vicinity of “vital areas”, according to state television. There's been projectiles in the skies of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as well.

Speaking at a press conference in Tehran on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran does not seek to expand its conflict with Israel to neighbouring countries unless forced. He described Iran’s military response as defensive. As Israeli air raids continued, Araghchi reaffirmed Iran’s opposition to nuclear weapons but defended its right to peaceful nuclear development. He said Ir...

Iran’s official news agency says Iranian forces are carrying out a hybrid attack with drones accompanying the missiles targeting Israeli cities.

Iran says that the Shahran oil depot northwest of Tehran was targeted in an Israeli attack, but that the situation is under control. Earlier, we reported that Israel had attacked a gas field close to Bushehr and the oil refinery in Abadan.

The Israeli prime minister says the attacks are aimed at Iran’s nuclear programme, ballistic missiles and military capabilities. “This operation will continue as long as necessary, until we complete the mission,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

The IAEA has passed a resolution censuring Iran over its nuclear programme—the first such move in 20 years. France, Germany, and the UK led the charge, citing uranium traces at undeclared sites and lack of transparency. Tehran, calling the resolution a strategic mistake, warned of countermeasures and rejected the IAEA’s findings. The US hopes to use the resolution to push Iran towards renewed talk...

An Air India plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board has crashed in India's western city of Ahmedabad. Officials say there are no known survivors. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner went down shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad's airport. Local media are reporting the aircraft crashed on a Medical College hostel. The number of victims on the ground is unclear. Emergency crews are at...

President Trump has promised the “largest deportation operation in American history”, targeting millions of undocumented immigrants. Trump’s tough stance on immigration helped to get him elected, but the way he’s going about his immigration crackdown is causing alarm among many people and has led to violent protests in LA.

Israeli naval commandos have taken control of the Madleen, a British-flagged vessel operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which had set sail to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. The yacht, carrying 12 people including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and an Al Jazeera journalist, was intercepted in international waters, approximately 160km from Gaza’s coast.

Video showed strikes on Dahiyeh shortly after the Israeli military said it would strike the neighbourhood. The Israeli military has said it was targeting underground drone production sites. Prior to the attacks, it issued forced evacuation orders for four areas in Dahiyeh.

The Israeli-US aid operation has turned Gaza into a “human abattoir”, or slaughterhouse, former UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness has said, in a reference to distribution sites operated by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “Hundreds of civilians are herded like animals into fenced-off pens and are slaughtered like cattle in the process,” Gunness told Al Jazeera. The Gaza Humanit...

The result of the voting is as follows: 14 votes in favour, one vote against (by the US), and zero abstentions. The United States vetoed the UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it’s not linked to the release of captives. The resolution also does not condemn Hamas’s deadly attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, or say the group must d...

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it's closing its distribution centres to improve efficiency. For four days in a row, Palestinians queueing for food have been killed at the sites. The UN says the attacks constitute a war crime.

Russian and Ukrainian delegations have started a new round of talks in Istanbul. Turkiye is hosting the second round of direct discussions between the two countries, in the hope of ending the war that's been going on for more than three years.

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinians gathered at aid distribution sites run by a US-backed group in southern and central Gaza, killing at least 30 people in Rafah and one more near the Netzarim Corridor and injuring dozens. The aid site is under the control of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is backed by the US and Israel. The United Nations has accused the organisation o...

Hamas says it has submitted its response to a ceasefire deal proposed by the US and is seeking amendments. Speaking to Al Jazeera live by phone, Basem Naim, head of Hamas' political and international relations bureau, confirmed the group's position and outlined concerns regarding the deal’s terms.

Hamas says it has submitted its response to a proposed ceasefire deal to the US Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. Hamas has issued a statement saying, "This proposal aims to achieve a permanent ceasefire, a comprehensive withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and ensuring the flow of aid to our people in the Gaza Strip. As part of this agreement, ten living Israeli prisoners held by the re...

A convicted ex-drug smuggler and former lawyer for the country’s most notorious kingpin, Joaquin Guzman: El Chapo, is among the candidates in Mexico's first judicial elections. The elections take place this Sunday and are the first time a nation's entire judiciary will be decided by popular vote. But there are concerns about some of the candidates.

Not much food is coming into the Gaza Strip. The number of trucks entering is very limited and what they are carrying is also limited. And despite the trucks’ entry over the past few days, Palestinians say they have not really received any food because there have not been any normal distribution points.

Billionaire Elon Musk said that his departure from the White House does not mark the end of DOGE and that much of his cost-cutting team will remain in place and he will continue to give advice to President Donald Trump. Musk said he was confident that "over time" the Department of Government Efficiency will reach $1 trillion of savings he promised.

Gaza's entire population of two-point-three million Palestinians is now at risk of famine. That's the warning from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Starvation is being fuelled by the lack of food distribution across the Strip. The operation is being run mostly by private contractors for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is backed by the US and Israeli governments....