By JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING, MUNIR AHMED and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has received an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East, officials said Wednesday — a proposal sent even as Washington deploys paratroopers and more Marines ...
By JON GAMBRELL, LEE KEATH and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump's surprising claim this week that talks with Iran were yielding great progress has only raised more confusion over a war whose goals were already unclear. The most ...
By AAMER MADHANI, JON GAMBRELL, DAVID RISING and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Trump administration offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran, a person briefed on the contours of the proposal said late Tuesday, even as the U.S. military prepared to ...
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Foreign Ministry declared Iran's ambassador to Beirut persona non grata Tuesday, ordering him to leave the country by the end of the week. The decision was the clearest sign yet of deteriorating relations between the two countries ...
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian countries are turning to coal as the Iran war disrupts oil and gas shipments. The continent is exposed because it relies on imported fuel, much of it passing through the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint for about a fifth of global oil and natural gas trade. LNG is a ...
By FARNOUSH AMIRI and EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. Security Council resolution calling for countries to use "all necessary means" to keep the Strait of Hormuz open is facing some opposition for raising the possibility of U.N.-backed military action against ...