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Since US-Israeli strikes against Iran began last Saturday, France has taken what President Emmanuel Macron calls a “strictly defensive” posture. On Tuesday, Macron said the US-Israel operations in Iran were conducted “outside international law”, while announcing the deployment of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and other military assets to the Mediterranean. So where does France stand? FRAN...
Baku has vowed to retaliate against what it described as "a terrorist act" allegedly carried out by Tehran after two drones hit an airport and narrowly missed a school building in Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave on the border with Iran. The Islamic Republic has denied carrying out the attack.
The former head of the French military mission to the UN has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how long the war in the Middle East could go on. General Dominique Trinquand says the war is now a logistics battle, which depends entirely on how many drones and missiles, and the means of launching them, remain. The difficulty for the US and Israel is that they know exactly how many they have, but it is much h...
Fresh blasts were reported in Iran's capital on Thursday as Tehran said it had targeted Kurdish groups in Iraq and warned "separatist groups" against action in the widening war. FRANCE 24's Reza Sayah reports from Tehran, Iran.
Israel's attacks on Lebanon entered a fourth day on Thursday, killing at least two according to state media, after Israeli forces pushed into border towns and conducted air strikes targeting Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on Monday, when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-...
The US-Israeli campaign against Iran entered its sixth day on Thursday with what residents described as even more intensive bombing, while Iran vowed to retaliate anywhere for a US attack on a ship thousands of miles from the battle zone. "Increasingly, these airstrikes are targeting locations that have nothing to do with the military," explains FRANCE 24's Reza Sayah, reporting from Tehran, Iran...
Footage posted by the anti-war women’s group Code Pink and verified by Reuters shows US Marine veteran Brian McGinnis shouting slogans such as “no one wants to fight for Israel” as he interrupts a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing. Shortly before, the US veteran posted a video on social media saying he was at the Senate to demand explanations about the deployment of US troops to the Mid...
In tonight's edition: ECOWAS eyes up forming a regional force to combat rising jihadist violence. Also, Ghanaian authorities are set to begin issuing licenses for the cultivation of cannabis. Plus South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa announces the army will be deployed to support police in the fight against rampant gang violence and crime.
Israel pounded Tehran with fresh strikes and Iran targeted Kurdish guerrilla groups in Iraq on Thursday as a spiralling war engulfed the Middle East. Earlier Thursday, Tehran said it had hit Iraq-based Kurdish groups, as the United States reportedly seeks to arm Iranian Kurdish guerillas to infiltrate Iran. The strikes which killed a member of an exiled Iranian Kurdish group, according to a repre...
In Nepal, 18 million people are eligible to vote in this Thursday's parliamentary elections. More than 120 parties are running, over a third of them created after the September 2025 uprising, which was largely driven by Generation Z. Among their demands: an end to corruption and nepotism and above all, job creation. Every day, nearly 2,000 young Nepalis leave the landlocked Himalayan country to fi...
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, March 5: The mass exodus from southern Lebanon makes front pages. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is lambasted for a lack of clarity on its war with Iran, including from the US president's own supporters. Plus, we get some bad news on sea levels globally, but there’s good news for Punch, the baby macaque in a zoo near Tokyo.
US senators narrowly blocked the so-called "#war powers resolution", which would require congressional approval for any future strikes in #Iran. A similar vote is expected on March 5 in the #US House of Representatives, where Republicans also hold a slight majority.
Footage posted by the anti-war women’s group Code Pink and verified by Reuters shows US Marine veteran Brian McGinnis shouting slogans such as “no one wants to fight for Israel” as he interrupts a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing.
François Picard welcomes Alexander Abdelilah, Investigative Journalist for Forbidden Stories who just published an investigative report on how the Iranian regime secretly acquired FindFace in 2019, a powerful facial recognition system developed by Russian company NTechLab. Mr. Abdelilah explores how this system operates both technically and politically. FindFace allows authorities to run recorded ...
China's annual parliamentary session kicks off with a growth downgrade as leaders target technology dominance in the manufacturing field. We take a closer look. Also in this edition: South Korean markets bounce back from a huge selloff, and a US trade court orders the Trump administration to issue tariff refunds.
Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands will send naval assets to Cyprus after an Iranian-made drone struck a British base there, Italy's defence minister said Thursday. France also said it would allow US aircraft to access some of its bases in the Middle East during the conflict with Iran.
Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands will send naval assets to Cyprus after an Iranian-made drone struck a British base there, Italy's defence minister said Thursday. France also said it would allow US aircraft to access some of its bases in the Middle East during the conflict with Iran.
A blackout left millions of people without power in Havana and the rest of western Cuba on Wednesday in the latest outage on an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid. Government radio station Radio Rebelde quoted an energy official as saying that it could take at least 72 hours to restore operations at one of Cuba's largest thermoelectric power plants, where a...
Israel's attacks on Lebanon entered a fourth day on Thursday, after Israeli forces pushed into several border towns and conducted air strikes targeting Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. AFPTV footage showed smoke rising after a strike hit the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut early Thursday. Lebanese authorities announced at least 72 people killed, 437 wounded and 83,000 displaced from thei...
François Picard welcomes Alexander Abdelilah, Investigative Journalist for Forbidden Stories who just published an investigative report on how the Iranian regime secretly acquired and deployed FindFace, a powerful facial recognition system developed by Russian company NTechLab. A leaked dataset of confidential contracts and technical documents uncovered evidence that this technology entered Iran’s...
As the US war on Iran rages, Angela Diffley welcomes Dr Renad Mansour, Senior Research Fellow on the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House. Iran is operating in “survival mode,” explains Mr. Mansour. For decades, Iran relied heavily on proxy militias and non-state actors across the Middle East and now increasingly willing to directly engage in confrontation. Tehran’s strategy for a...
As the US war on Iran rages, Angela Diffley welcomes Renaud Mansour, Senior Research Fellow on the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House. Iran is operating in “survival mode,” explains Mr. Mansour. For decades, Iran relied heavily on proxy militias and non-state actors across the Middle East and now increasingly willing to directly engage in confrontation. Tehran’s strategy for an ...
A French appeals court ruled Thursday that a policeman who shot and killed a teenager in 2023 in a Paris suburb, sparking protests, should be tried for violence that led to death.
Western Cuba was plunged into darkness Thursday as a massive blackout left millions without power. Between crumbling infrastructure and the halt of Venezuelan oil shipments under US pressure, the island’s energy grid is on the brink of collapse, with recovery expected to take days.
Iran launched more missiles at Israel and U.S. bases as war in the Middle East enters a sixth day. Israel announced multiple incoming attacks early Thursday and said it was intercepting the missiles. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem.
Israel's Homefront Command has announced it is easing restrictions that closed workplaces across the country. Businesses are able to reopen providing that there is a shelter nearby. Schools will remain closed. Daily life across the country remained upended, with civilians constantly having to flee to shelters, as FRANCE 24’s Simon Moritz reports.
On Thursday, Tehran said it had hit Iraq-based Kurdish groups "opposed to the revolution", as reports said the United States was looking to arm Kurdish guerillas to infiltrate Iran. The conflict that began Saturday with US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran's supreme leader has spread across much of the region, sparking global economic pressure, energy disruptions and travel chaos. FRANCE 24's Inter...
US Senate Republicans backed President Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran on Wednesday, voting to block a bipartisan resolution aiming to stop the air war and require that any hostilities against Iran be authorized by Congress.
Images from the US Department of Defense show the destroyer USS Bainbridge launching Tomahawk cruise missiles, while the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford conducts military aircraft take-offs as part of “Epic Fury” operation against Iran.
Marseille's disastrous year continues. After being eliminated from the Champions League on the last day of the league stage, suffering a 5-0 loss to rivals PSG, and firing their coach a few days later, Marseille hit a new low by losing to Toulouse on penalties in the French Cup quarter-finals. This ends the club's dream of winning a title for the first time since 2012.
