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Iran suffered major blows on Wednesday with the killing of its intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, in an Israeli strike and an attack on the South Pars natural gas field, one of the world's largest gas resources and a pillar of the country's energy supplies. Tehran vowed retaliation for the attacks, targeting facilities in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE.
Iran suffered major blows on Wednesday with the killing of its intelligence minister, Esmail Khatib, in an Israeli strike and an attack on the South Pars natural gas field, one of the world's largest gas resources and a pillar of the country's energy supplies. Tehran vowed retaliation for the attacks, targeting facilities in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE.
The Trump administration is taking steps to curb rising energy costs, as it continues to wage war in the Middle East. The US is easing sanctions on Venezuela, and suspending a century-old shipping law, in an effort to get more oil supplies into the global market. Oil prices continues to rise, with crude topping $109 per barrel, as Gulf energy infrastructure was targeted by strikes. Also in the sho...
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade, Zaid Al-Ali, Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and Former UN Advisor in Iraq, explains that until the war in Iran broke out, Iraq had been able to "straddle between US-aligned interests and Iranian-aligned interests" but there's an "acute risk" that it will become the victim of internal conflict once again as the war progresses.
Iran made no effort to rebuild uranium enrichment after its capabilities were destroyed in a June 2025 US-Israeli attack, US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard testified Wednesday, contradicting President Donald Trump's justifications for his ongoing war. FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson reports from Washington.
Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, is just 30km from Russia and suffers almost daily bombardment from across the border. But as the years of war have gone by, the city’s cultural institutions have adapted in order to keep working despite the dangers. The national opera and ballet theatre in the city centre stages regular performances. Most recently, to coincide with the four-year anniversary ...
Saudi Arabia intercepted and destroyed four ballistic missiles that were launched toward Riyadh on Wednesday, the Defence Ministry said, just ahead of a meeting of regional and Islamic foreign ministers in the Saudi capital. FRANCE 24's Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Doha.
Today in the Middle East, Day 19 of the war, there have been extensive air strikes, drone attacks and missiles launched. And fall-out is spreading far beyond the so called theatre of war. And the funeral of Ali Larijani, Iran's de facto leader, key advisor to the Ayatollah, the head of National Security, killed in an Israeli air strike just over 24 hours ago in a Tehran suburb. Tonight we're askin...
Since the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, US and Israeli strikes have decimated the regime's top ranks, from the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, to the country's security and intelligence chiefs. But even as the heads of the Iranian leadership roll, regime change remains unlikely anytime soon. FRANCE 24 spoke to Middle East expert Filippo Dionigi to u...
Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Elisa Catalano Ewers, Senior Fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Our guest sees Israeli strategy as driven by a perceived window of opportunity to destabilize the Iranian regime from within. Their approach is not one of immediate collapse, but of calculated and sustained pressure, targeting leadership structures and security capa...
#France's next aircraft carrier will be called the "France Libre" (Free France). It is set to replace the current Charles #deGaulle warship and is being named after the French Resistance movement that de Gaulle led against the #Nazi occupation of France during World War II.
As Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with European leaders, including Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Eduard Soler i Lecha, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Senior Research Associate at IBEI. According to Mr. Soler i Lecha, Spain's current foreign policy is deeply strategic. Our guest illus...
At war with Iran-backed Hezbollah, Israel on Wednesday has called on everyone living south of the Zahrani River to evacuate immediately. It is an area comprising 14 percent of Lebanon's territory, and is highlighted in red in the maps posted by the Israeli military. FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin reports from the emptied city of Tyre, as the war has already forced more than a million Lebanese to flee...
He was the late Ayatollah Ali #Khamenei's closest adviser. Ali #Larijani was killed in an overnight strike, nearly a month after the death of the supreme leader.
Israel said on Wednesday its forces had killed another top Iranian official, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, and said its military was authorised to kill any senior figure of the Islamic republic in its sights. The announcement, the day after Iranian security chief Ali Larijani was confirmed killed in an Israeli strike, is part of a longstanding strategy by Israel to target its enemy's leader...
Residents of Lebanon southern areas bombarded in the Israel-Hezbollah war poured into the ancient city of Sidon in search of safety. At war with Iran-backed Hezbollah, Israel has called on everyone living south of the Zahrani River to evacuate immediately. FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin reports from Sidon.
US President Donald Trump and his allies are attacking news organisations for their coverage of the war on Iran, a conflict the administration says is going well for the United States but is unpopular with the public and has plunged the Middle East into chaos. Trump accused unspecified “fake news media” of working with Tehran to spread AI-generated images and said they should be charged with treas...
An extra 45 million people could face acute hunger if the Mideast war carried on through June, swelling the number worldwide to a "terrible" high, the United Nations warned Tuesday. The war, now in its third week, has killed hundreds and seen Iran launch retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf nations, as well as a front opening in Lebanon with Israel battling Hezbollah.
NATO chief Mark Rutte said Wednesday that the military alliance's members were discussing the "best way" to open the Strait of Hormuz, through which a large chunk of the world's oil supply normally passes. "I have been in contact with many allies. We all agree, of course, that strait has to open up again. And what I know is that allies are working together, discussing how to do that, what is the b...
Cuba's leader on Tuesday said the US would face "unbreakable resistance" if it tries to take over the impoverished island nation, as communist authorities scrambled to fix a nationwide electricity blackout. Cuba's government is under increasingly crushing pressure, with Washington enforcing an oil blockade and openly stating it wants to end the nearly seven-decade-old US standoff with the one-part...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday was making his visit to Spain after a stop in London on Tuesday seen as part of an effort by Kyiv to keep the war against Russia a priority for European capitals, even as they grapple with fall-out from the US-Israeli war against Iran that is consuming the Middle East.
French director Xavier Giannoli's latest film sees Jean Dujardin embody the moral slide from pacifism to collaboration, as the Academy Award-winning actor helms the historical drama "Les Rayons et les Ombres". Film critic Manon Kerjean tells us why the complexity of its characters gives the film a powerful sense of nuance and why – at over three hours long – it's still a compelling watch.
At the Joussieh border crossing near the Syrian city of Homs, thousands of Syrian refugees are fleeing the devastating war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah. Driven out by Israeli air strikes after years of exile in Lebanon, families and children wait for hours before returning to a country where 90 percent of the population is surviving in post-Assad poverty. FRANCE 24's Dana Alboz and Huss...
The former president of Columbia University in New York, which was at the centre of sometimes violent protests against the war in Gaza, has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the importance of free speech and how universities have to teach it. Lee C. Bollinger is president emeritus of Columbia University; he ran it until just a year before the protests broke out. The university has long been known as a bas...
As US President Donald Trump threatens to take over Cuba, following the forced collapse of their national electric grid, Mark Owen welcomes Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America Programme at the Chatham House. What we are witnessing today, explains Mr. Sabatini, is not an isolated infrastructural failure, but the convergence of long-standing structural weaknesses and acute...
As Donald Trump threatens to take over Cuba, following the forced collapse of their national electric grid, Mark Owen welcomes Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America Programme at the Chatham House. What we are witnessing today, explains Mr. Sabatini, is not an isolated infrastructural failure, but the convergence of long-standing structural weaknesses and acute geopolitical...
In this edition of Entre Nous we're pleased to speak to Candace Bushnell, creator of "Sex and the City", the book that was the basis for the hit HBO show about four New York friends – Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha – living and dating in the Big Apple. Candace has a one-woman show coming up at the Folies Bergère in Paris on April 26. She tells us what to expect from her show.
The head of the US's National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned from his post on Tuesday in opposition to the Trump administration's war on Iran. The former staunch Trump supporter said he could not support the war as "Iran posed no imminent threat" to the US.
The Iranian women's football team crossed the Turkish border into Iran on Wednesday to complete a fraught return journey from Australia, after five members withdrew asylum claims they had lodged there.
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said France's next-generation aircraft carrier set to replace the Charles de Gaulle in 2038 will be named “Free France" in tribute to the “spirit” of the French resistance against the World War II era Nazi resistance.
