Iran's foreign minister has wrapped up a trip to Pakistan in which he made a surprise offer to let Islamabad take part in a major port project partly funded by Pakistan's archrival India. India has helped to expand and develop Iran's Arabian Sea port of Chabahar as part of efforts to set up a ...
The Chabahar port project is being built by India for the express purpose of bypassing Pakistan/ India's therefore not likely to be pleased with Iran's comments about offering Pakistan participation in the project/ It's possible though that Iran was merely making conciliatory remarks to assure ...
Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif called on China and Pakistan to join the development of Chabahar port less than a month after New Delhi inked a pact with Tehran to lease a part of the port./ Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (right) meets Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif in ...
"We offered to participate in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. We have also offered Pakistan and China to participate in Chahbahar," Iran said./ to Afghanistan, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, a leading Pakistani daily reported on Tuesday. The move may be seen as Zarif's bid to allay ...
Lebanese Army troops, seen here at the site of an Israeli strike in central Beirut, will have a key role in the ceasefire deal/ The Israeli cabinet will meet to discuss approval of a ceasefire to temporarily end hostilities with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. The proposed truce would reportedly ...
Food prices soared in Gaza after the looting of nearly 100 UN aid lorries this month/ Amid severe food shortages in Gaza, increasingly violent thefts by criminal gangs are now the main obstacle to distributing supplies in the south, aid workers and locals say. They allege that armed men operate ...
The Lebanese army would be expected to increase its presence in the ceasefire zone/ Israel and Lebanon appear to be close to a ceasefire deal, with the Israeli cabinet set to meet on Tuesday to discuss it, Israeli officials say. A 60-day truce is being proposed to end fighting between Israel and ...
Rabbi Zvi Kogan was an emissary for the Chabad Lubavitch organisation in Abu Dhabi/ Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have identified three Uzbek nationals as the suspects arrested over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi and said they were working to determine a motive. The ...
The Sea Story reportedly departed a port near Marsa Alam on Saturday with 31 tourists and 14 others on board/ Egyptian authorities say rescuers have found survivors after a tourist boat with 45 people on board sank in the Red Sea. A distress signal was received at 05:30 local time (03:30 GMT) ...
Israel's military says around 250 rockets have been fired by Hezbollah across the border from Lebanon, marking one of the heaviest bombardments of Israel since fighting intensified in September. Several people were injured and buildings damaged in northern and central Israel, some of them near ...
Israel says it is investigating a claim by Hamas that a female hostage has been killed during Israeli operations in northern Gaza. The woman's identity was not revealed by Hamas, and it was unclear how or when she is said to have died. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was currently unable ...
Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are investigating the disappearance of an Israeli-Moldovan dual national in the UAE. Zvi Kogan, an envoy of the Orthodox Jewish organisation Chabad, has been missing since Thursday, the Israeli prime minister's office said. Israel's intelligence agency ...
A massive Israeli strike has flattened a residential building in centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. The eight-storey structure was completely destroyed without warning, as people were sleeping in the capital's densely-populated Basta district, the BBC's Hugo Bachega said. At least 11 people ...
A massive Israeli strike has flattened a residential building in centre of the Lebanese capital Beirut. At least 11 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, according to Lebanon's health ministry. The eight-storey building was completely destroyed without warning by five missiles in the ...