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Three days after US and Israeli air strikes started hitting their country, Iranians are torn between conflicting emotions: many are expressing joy for what they see as an opportunity to topple the Islamic regime, but also fear that the strikes will cause more civilian casualties. Two of our Observers in Iran describe what they have been going through since February 28.
Beijing has strongly condemned the joint US-Israeli attacks targeting Iran’s leadership and its infrastructure. As the main buyer of Iranian oil and a key strategic partner, China must now secure its own energy supply while avoiding becoming embroiled in a regional conflagration.
US President Donald Trump welcomed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to the White House on Tuesday for talks as the US-Israel war against Iran widened, sending oil prices to their highest level since 2024. Trump, speaking in the Oval Office alongside Merz, told reporters the two leaders would speak about the war, adding the German leader has "been helping out."
Major Gulf hubs, including the world's busiest international airport Dubai – which normally handles over 1,000 flights a day – remained closed for a fourth day on Tuesday, slashing capacity on popular routes like Australia to Europe, where Emirates and Qatar Airways normally have a high market share. FRANCE 24’s Clovis Casali and Anaïs Chesnel went to Paris' Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, whe...
Flavio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's jailed former leader, on Sunday sought to rally and unite conservatives ahead of October elections in which he hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Thousands of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro demonstrated in several Brazilian cities, calling for him to be freed from prison and slamming leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government. ...
Terrified residents of Iran's capital described it as a ghost town on Tuesday, its streets largely emptied by a US-Israeli missile barrage apart from security checkpoints and Revolutionary Guards patrols that rove the city.
US President Donald Trump's administration offered conflicting responses to questions over the attack on Iran and how to bring an end to the conflict even as joint US-Israeli air strikes over the weekend morphed into a larger regional war.
Oliver Farry welcomes Pierre Gervais, Professor of American Civilisation at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. He describes the attacks on Iran beyond the prism of geopolitics: a veritable constitutional crisis made in America. He sees the unfolding war with Iran in the cadre of democratic resilience over military strategy. The short term will not be kind to Donald Trump as most Americans reject the wa...
Oliver Farry welcomes Pierre Gervais, Professor of American Civilisation at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. He describes the attacks on Iran beyond the prism of geopolitics: a veritable constitutional and political stress test for the US. He sees the unfolding war with Iran in the cadre of democratic resilience over military strategy. The short term will not be kind to Donald Trump as most Americans...
Energy prices surged on Tuesday, sending stocks tumbling and the dollar rising as investors worried about inflation amid fears of a fresh energy crisis over the war with Iran.
More than 8,000 Afghans have been forced from their homes by fighting with Pakistani forces along the border in recent days, the Taliban government said Tuesday. The neighbours have clashed along the frontier since Thursday, when Afghanistan launched a border offensive in retaliation for Pakistani air strikes.
Iran stepped up its attacks on economic targets and US missions across the Middle East on Tuesday as President Donald Trump warned it was "too late" for the Islamic republic to seek talks to escape the war. As drones and missiles crashed into oil facilities and US embassies in the Gulf, Washington's ally Israel bombarded targets in Iran and pushed troops deeper into Lebanon to battle the Tehran-ba...
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Tuesday France will be ready to repatriate its most vulnerable citizens from the Middle East. Barrot said the government is looking at various options which included chartered flights and state aircraft.
People gathered beside a gold-colored coffin that, according to local media reports, contained the body of cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” who was killed on February 22 during a military operation in the state of Jalisco.
The deputy director of the European Council on Foreign Relations' Paris office has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how European nations are already being sucked into the war in Iran. Camille Lons pointed out that although any direct help for the US or Israel has been labelled as only defensive, attacks on French and British bases have already occurred. She noted that other major issues such as energy pr...
President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back against mounting criticism that he hasn't done enough to explain why it was necessary to start a war with Iran now or to articulate his vision for an endgame to the escalating conflict. Trump also seemed to leave open the possibility for a more extensive US military involvement. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert tells us more...
Israel on Tuesday ordered the military to take control of more positions inside Lebanon to create a buffer zone, as the Lebanese army pulled back some of its forces after Hezbollah attacked Israeli bases in support of its backer, Iran. Lebanon was drawn into the regional war after an initial rocket attack on Israel by Hezbollah, which said it wanted to "avenge" the killing of Iranian supreme leade...
The Israeli army announced that it carried out airstrikes against the Iranian presidency and the offices of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran, as part of the war launched against Iran
US President Donald Trump met with Germany's Friedrich Merz on Tuesday at the White House for his first visit with a foreign leader since joining Israel in strikes on Iran that have dragged the Middle East into war.
US President Donald Trump met with Germany's Friedrich Merz on Tuesday at the White House for his first visit with a foreign leader since joining Israel in strikes on Iran that have dragged the Middle East into war.
US President Donald Trump is meeting Germany's Friedrich Merz on Tuesday at the White House for his first visit with a foreign leader since joining Israel in strikes on Iran that have dragged the Middle East into war. Follow their press conference live by clicking on the player above.
US President Donald Trump will meet Germany's Friedrich Merz on Tuesday at the White House for his first visit with a foreign leader since joining Israel in strikes on Iran that have dragged the Middle East into war.
Japan is one of the few countries that still use the death penalty. The most recent execution took place in June 2025, when a man was hanged for killing nine people back in 2017. Japan and the United States are the only G7 countries to use capital punishment – a measure supported by the vast majority of Japanese citizens. FRANCE 24's Ayana Nishikawa, Alexis Bregere, Mélodie Sforza and Justin McCur...
Drones hit the US embassy in Riyadh on Tuesday as Iran hit back at industrial and diplomatic targets across the Middle East and Washington warned its citizens to evacuate the entire region. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert tells us more about Iran's broad retaliation.
Drones hit the US embassy in Riyadh on Tuesday as Iran hit back at industrial and diplomatic targets across the Middle East and Washington warned its citizens to evacuate the entire region. Four days after US and Israeli strikes killed Iran's supreme leader and triggered a regional war, AFP reporters in the Saudi capital saw smoke damage on the walls and roof of the embassy.
Lebanon was pulled deeper into the war in the Middle East on Tuesday as the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah launched missiles at Israel for a second consecutive day and Israel sent troops into the south and carried out waves of air strikes. Israel's neighbour to the north and the theatre of numerous conflicts between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon had avoided spillover from the US-Israeli at...
As the US-Israeli campaign in #Iran continues, Benjamin #Netanyahu and #US secretary of war Pete #Hegseth have said the war will not be “endless”, while Donald #Trump claims it will last “four to five weeks”. It is estimated over 780 people have been killed in Iran since the start of the conflict.
Across Tehran, the sound of explosions rang out through the night and into the early hours Tuesday, as the US and Israel have continued to pound Iran since killing its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday. Airstrikes have killed at least 787 people in Iran since the start of the war, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Tuesday. "More and more civilians are being killed," says FRANCE...
A US congressional committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released videos on Monday of the depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton. The former US president and former US secretary of state appeared before the House Oversight Committee last week to testify about their relations with Epstein. Hillary Clinton told the panel that she did not know Epstein, and Bill Clinton said ...
President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back against mounting criticism that he hasn't done enough to explain why it was necessary to start a war with Iran now or to articulate his vision for an endgame to the escalating conflict. The frustration is coming not just from the political left but also from his “Make America Great Again” base, as the conflict expands, energy prices surge, and the death...
