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Israeli strikes killed at least 18 people across Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank on Saturday, including emergency workers targeted in Lebanon's south. The deaths coincide with announced plans for US-brokered ceasefire talks, which Hezbollah has rejected as unconstitutional. Lebanon's cumulative war death toll now exce
An Iranian source claims the US agreed to unfreeze Iranian funds; Washington has denied it. The dispute concerns assets connected to the September 2023 US, Iran prisoner swap, where funds were transferred into Qatari bank accounts under Doha's mediation. No official US Treasury or State Department confirmation has been
Iran and the US exchanged written negotiating texts Saturday at the Serena Hotel in Islamabad, entering a third round of expert-level talks during a Pakistan-brokered ceasefire in the US-Israeli war against Iran. Core disputes over nuclear enrichment limits, $7 billion in frozen Iranian assets, and Lebanon ceasefire sc