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Iran will reportedly allow Indian-flagged tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for 40% of the South Asian nation's crude imports, an Indian government source told Reuters on Thursday, but an Iranian source outside the country denied any such deal was reached. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Giacome Luciani, Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs.
The war in Iran is not only being fought on the battlefield – it is also playing out online. Iran’s state media recently took a leaf out of the White House’s own social media playbook, mocking Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu with an AI-generated propaganda video styled like a LEGO animation. The clip suggested that Trump launched the conflict to distract from scrutiny over his links to disgrac...
A group of 46 mostly Democratic senators on Wednesday sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking answers on the bombing of a school in Iran. FRANCE 24's Fraser Jackson reports.
Brent crude has once again topped $100 a barrel as energy markets brace for the Iran conflict to drag on. US President Donald Trump says he is less concerned about high oil prices than about stopping Iran, while his energy secretary has confirmed the military cannot yet escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. Also, Indian households and businesses are facing high prices and shortages of cooki...
Brent crude oil prices have once again topped $100 per barrel, as energy markets brace for the Iran conflict to drag on. US President Donald Trump says he's less concerned about high oil prices than about stopping Iran, while his energy secretary has confirmed the military cannot yet escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. Also in the show - Indian households and businesses are facing high pr...
Iran's Tasnim news agency has published a list of potential targets for Iran on Telegram, including the offices of tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia in Gulf countries and Israel. Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Doha for FRANCE 24.
A Russian court sentenced four perpetrators and eleven accomplices to life imprisonment on Thursday for the March 2024 attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall, which killed 150 people, making it the country’s worst jihadist attack in more than 20 years.
A Russian court sentenced four perpetrators and eleven accomplices to life imprisonment on Thursday for the March 2024 attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall, which killed 150 people, making it the country’s worst jihadist attack in more than 20 years.
Warfare's always evolving, sometimes slowly: Napoleon’s armies traveled only as those of Julius Caesar. Sometimes, faster than commanders can process: see the futile carnage of World War I. The pace of change on the battlefield today? Fast, very fast.
Police shot and killed a man on Thursday after he drove a vehicle into a synagogue in West Bloomfield, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, where a large-scale law enforcement operation is now under way. The city's county sheriff confirmed the fatality and reported that a security guard had also been injured.
A man died on Thursday after attacking a synagogue in West Bloomfield, a suburb of Detroit in Michigan, where a large-scale law enforcement operation is underway. His death was confirmed by the county sheriff who also reported that a security guard had been injured.
An unidentified assailant was killed Thursday after ramming his pickup truck into a synagogue on the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, causing a blaze and triggering a huge police response.
With France preparing to vote in the first round of municipal elections on Sunday, Paris has become a battleground between left- and right-wing forces fighting to shape the capital’s future. And as Parisians increasingly place public safety at the top of their concerns, candidates from across the spectrum have pledged to pour more funds into the city’s municipal police force and surveillance syste...
In South Africa's Western Cape mountains, the return of a top predator is giving conservationists hope after 170 years. But with fewer than a thousand Cape leopards left in the wild, the species remains dangerously vulnerable.
Israel renewed its strikes on Beirut on Thursday, as it threatened to expand operations and seize territory in Lebanon if Hezbollah did not stop its attacks. The Israeli military issued a call to evacuate ahead of the Beirut attack, after having also widened its evacuation warning for residents in southern Lebanon.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has issued his first statement since his appointment as the war with the United States and Israel rages. The statement was read on state television Thursday by a news anchor. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert tells us more.
In Beirut, refugees from conflict zones like Sudan and Ethiopia have once again been caught up in war — the very thing they hoped to leave behind in their home countries. FRANCE 24's reporter spoke to families sheltering at a Jesuit church in the Lebanese capital, who have lost everything for a second time after fleeing Israeli and US air strikes on Lebanon.
Since the war in the Middle East began nearly two weeks ago, the phone at Ron Hubbard's bomb shelter company in Texas hasn't stopped ringing. Foreign and US clients are rushing to buy his bunkers, seeking refuge in case of air raids, nuclear fallout or apocalypse.
#Dubai was among the targets of fresh Iranian drone strikes early on March 12, alongside Kuwait's airport. This comes after #Iran denounced a #UN Security Council that demanded strikes on the #Gulf countries stop. Eleven civilians have died since the start of Iranian attacks in the region.
As Iran’s new supreme leader calls for the Strait of Hormuz to remain closed, France’s Minister of Armed Forces and Veteran Affairs, Catherine Vautrin, says Paris has no plans to send naval vessels to the strategic waterway. In an interview with FRANCE 24, she also stressed that France is not participating in the war in the Middle East.
Iran's participation in the World Cup seems to be slipping further away on Thursday, with US President Donald Trump saying that Team Melli players would not be “safe” if they came to the United States.
Iran's participation in the World Cup seems to be slipping further away on Thursday, with US President Donald Trump saying that Team Melli players would not be “safe” if they came to the United States.
Iran's participation in the World Cup seems to be slipping further away on Thursday, with US President Donald Trump saying that Team Melli players would not be “safe” if they came to the United States.
Iran's participation in the World Cup seems to be slipping further away on Thursday, with US President Donald Trump saying that Team Melli players would not be “safe” if they came to the United States.
US President Donald Trump warned Iran's football team Thursday their "life and safety" would be at risk if they took part in the upcoming World Cup in North America.
The Israeli military said on Thursday that Hezbollah had fired around 200 rockets at Israel the night beforeFRANCE 24's Olivia Bizot reports from one of the buildings in Tel Aviv that was hit during the very first days of the war by an Iranian missile. Since then, "a sense of normality has returned to the streets", she explains.
Explosions shook Tehran early Thursday as the US-Israeli airstrikes continued with no end in sight. Minutes after saying Iran had launched missiles into Israel very early on Thursday morning, Israel’s military said it had begun a “wide-scale wave of strikes” in Tehran.
The United States said Tuesday it was striking Iranian ships capable of mining the crucial Strait of Hormuz and threatened escalation if Tehran presses ahead, as the Middle East war wreaks havoc on global oil markets. The US military posted video footage of Iranian boats blasted by missiles and other projectiles as it said it had destroyed 16 minelayers near the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint t...
As he takes on the presidency of PEN America, Dinaw Mengestu explains why defending a plurality of voices is crucial at a time of censorship and revisionism. He also discusses how the organisation is working to rebuild its credibility after criticism over its failure to condemn the war in Gaza in 2023. The award-winning author’s fourth novel, “Someone Like Us”, has just been published in France, a...
