Middle East

The face-to-face meeting follows ongoing fighting in Lebanon and Iran’s claim to have shut the Strait of Hormuz. BBC News

The Israeli military accused Ahmed Wishah of being a “Hamas sniper operative”, without providing evidence. BBC News

Mona Khalil, who had refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting, died from her injuries after the Israeli strike. BBC News

The agreement followed concerns that continued clashes would undermine the deal to end the war between the US and Iran. BBC News

Senior US officials have shared the details of the deal with Iran in a briefing call with journalists. The full text of a memorandum of understanding between the two countries was read aloud, verbatim, on the call. The 14-paragraph document covers a range of subjects, from reopening the Strait of …

Three Iranian tankers loaded with crude oil have passed the US blockade line in the Gulf of Oman, ship-tracking data shows. BBC News

Israeli nationalists are increasingly flouting a convention on how faiths share the al-Aqsa mosque compound. BBC News

Many Lebanese remain doubtful that the agreement could finally mean the end of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. BBC News

Trump says Iran will not develop nuclear weapons BBC News

Another anti-regime Iranian, who initially supported US military action, asked what the US attack had achieved, since if it did not lead to political change in Iran: “Our hope was that the ruling system would change. But apart from misery, inflation, and further damage to the economy, what benefit did …

Netanyahu added that the ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran is President Trump’s decision and that he is committed to ensure that Israel “do not face a nuclear threat.” BBC News

US President Donald Trump is touting a new peace deal with Iran, with Vice-President JD Vance saying Tehran’s nuclear programme has been “comprehensively destroyed”. But former President Barack Obama says any new agreement is unlikely to be “significantly different” from the deal he struck with Iran in 2015. The BBC’s …

Iran’s top military command, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said that Iranians, together with the country’s armed forces and Tehran’s proxies and allies in the region, had shown the US and Israel that they had “no option but to accept defeat and surrender”. BBC News

Pakistan, which has been mediating between the US and Iran, announced a deal to end hostilities on Sunday. BBC’s Sebastian Usher spoke about the agreement, which President Trump and Iran’s deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi both commented on. Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif said the US and Iran will end …

Israel says it targeted the Iran-backed Hezbollah, as Tehran warns this could derail a US-Iran deal to end the fighting. BBC News

Yolande Knell reports on the Israeli bulldozing of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. BBC News

Israel is not involved in the talks which have been mostly mediated by Pakistan and are meant to lead to an extension of the ceasefire and the start of negotiations on key issues, including Iran’s nuclear programme. For decades, Iran has been accused by Western countries of trying to build …

This is the second vessel with Indian crew that has come under attack from the US this week. On Monday, US forces hit The Marivex, also a Palau-flagged oil tanker with an Indian crew, in the Gulf of Oman after it failed to comply with US instructions, Centcom said. BBC …

India’s government said three Indian sailors were missing and 21 crew had been rescued after the hit on the Settebello off the coast of Oman. BBC News

Nine of them were killed in a series of attacks in the town of Tayr Debba, according to Lebanon’s state news agency. BBC News