Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds./ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has announced the discovery of a field containing an estimated 53 billion barrels of crude oil./ A vast oil field containing an estimated 53 billion barrels of crude oil ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Mr Rouhani made the announcement as he delivered a speech in the central city of Yazd A new oil field that would increase Iran's proven reserves by about a third has been discovered, President Hassan Rouhani has said. The field, in the ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States will never allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon; State Department correspondent Rich Edson reports./ in the country's south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country's proven ...
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a public gathering at the city of Yazd, some 410 miles (680 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019. Iran has discovered a new oil field in ...
Discovery follows tense summer of mysterious attacks on oil tankers and Saudi oil facilities that US blamed on Iran/ Discovery comes after US sanctions have been damaging Iran's crude oil industry
US envoy Steve Witkoff (left) and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took part in the talks/ have concluded a first round of talks in Oman over Tehran's nuclear programme - the highest-level meeting between the two nations since 2018. Both countries described the meeting as "constructive" ...
US and Iranian officials have arrived in Oman's capital Muscat to try to reach a new deal over Iran's controversial nuclear programme. Donald Trump pulled the US out of a previous nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers in 2018, and reinstated economic sanctions, angering Iran. Trump has ...
More than 1,500 people are reported killed and nearly 400,000 displaced since Israel resumed fighting last month/ The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has told the BBC that Gaza has become "hell on earth", as Israel's military assault there continues. Mirjana ...
Rifaat Radwan filmed the incident in which he and 14 other emergency workers were shot dead by Israeli troops/ "My heart and soul died when Rifaat was killed," says Hajjah Umm Mohammed, the mother of a Palestinian paramedic who was one of 15 emergency workers killed by Israeli troops in southern ...
It was a typical Friday lunchtime in Beirut's southern suburb. Then, a single warning, posted in Arabic on X by a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), triggered panic and chaos in the densely populated area known as Dahieh. "Urgent warning to those in the southern suburb of Beirut," ...
Ahmed Manasra was released on Wednesday after spending nearly 10 years in jail/ A Palestinian man jailed by Israel for an attack when he was 13 has been released after nearly a decade in prison. Surveillance footage showed him and his 15-year-old cousin, Hassan, brandishing large kitchen knives ...
The UN says about 100,000 people fled Rafah after the Israeli military issued an evacuation order last month/ Israel's defence minister has said it will expand its so-called "security zones" in Gaza to include the southern city of Rafah. During a visit to the area, Israel Katz said the military ...
Israeli troops fired more than 100 times during an attack in which they killed 15 emergency workers in Gaza, with some shots from as close as 12m (39ft) away, a forensic audio analysis of mobile phone footage commissioned by BBC Verify has found. Two audio experts examined a 19-minute video ...
Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes in Sudan and fled across the border to Chad/ The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is hearing a case brought by Sudan accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of being "complicit in the genocide" during the current civil war. The two-year ...
Israel's military air power, used extensively in the Gaza war, relies heavily on reservist pilots/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected criticism of the Gaza war by some air force reservists, calling it "unforgivable". The Israeli military said it would dismiss serving ...