Archives for June, 2026

Tents housing displaced Palestinians stand amid summer heat in Gaza City, June 20, 2026. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says

Reuters

The UN investigators determined Israel was targeting children in Gaza to attack 'the very capacity of the Palestinian people to exist'

Israel's 'deliberate targeting' of children part of ongoing Gaza 'genocide': UN probe

Agence France-Presse

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President JD Vance shakes hands with Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir, next to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, as they meet for high-level talks aimed at advancing a deal to end the Middle East conflict, at the Buergenstock Resort Lake Lucerne, near Stansstad, Switzerland, June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/Pool/File Photo

Analysis-Can Pakistan's peacekeeping role in Iran war give it an economic dividend?

Reuters

Cars and motorbikes drive past billboards showing Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and his late father Ali Khamenei, with the slogan “Thank you to loyal Iran,” erected along the highway leading to Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon June 22, 2026.REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

New Lebanon-Israel talks to begin, in shadow of US-Iran deal

Reuters

People walk past a billboard with a picture of the Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, June 17, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERSRDA.

Analysis-Undoing the 'tangled nest' of Iran sanctions won't be easy or quick

Reuters

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a bilateral meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 16, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Rubio faces tough task of selling Iran reset to wary Gulf allies

Reuters

A woman walks near a mural depicting the late leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a street in Tehran, Iran, June 18, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

US waives Iran sanctions, Trump says he will 'do what I have to' if Tehran misbehaves

Reuters

DOJ probes coffee shop chain in New York after it bars pro-Israel US lawmaker

Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Workers fill bags with lentils at a World Food Programme (WFP) food storage facility in Damascus countryside, Syria, July 29, 2025. REUTERS/Yamam Alshaar/File Photo

Syria has made no progress on Sweida reintegration plan, UN says

Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the day he signs an executive order regarding Quantum Computing, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 22, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Trump: 'I will do what I have to do' if Iran does not stick to deal

Reuters

Speaker of the parliament of Iran, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (R), arrives at the Burgenstock resort in Obbuergen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, on June 21, 2026.

Iran's Ghalibaf holds talks in Oman on Strait of Hormuz: What to know

The US-Iran memorandum of understanding signed last week calls for Iran and Oman to hold talks on the future administration of the strait.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks during the Jerusalem Summit, a conference on antisemitism and Christian support for Israel, at the Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Jerusalem, June 11, 2026. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo

Trump allies defend him to Israelis anxious over Iran deal

Reuters

Germany's forward #26 Deniz Undav (2nd R), an ethnic Kurd, scores his team's first goal during the 2026 World Cup Group E football match between Germany and Ivory Coast at the Toronto Stadium in Toronto on June 20, 2026.

Culture

Amid political setbacks, Kurds shine at the World Cup

Kurdish players and clubs are making rare global gains on football’s biggest stage, offering a brief lift amid ongoing political setbacks across the region.

This file photo shows Zeine Zeidane in 2008, when he was prime minister of Mauritania. He is currently the IMF's Africa director

IMF director says Iran war fallout creating 'difficult moment' for Africa

Agence France-Presse

Cargo ships along the Gulf of Oman on June 19

Hormuz: Traffic flows despite Iran's closure announcement

Agence France-Presse

Qatar gas plant blast kills 13, injures dozens

Agence France-Presse