April 7 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday attacked Saudi Arabia's Jubail petrochemical complex, the heart of the kingdom's downstream sector, its Revolutionary Guards said, the latest evidence of Tehran's ability to strike back in response to U.S.-Israeli attacks ahead of a U.S. deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz or face annihilation.

Iran said the attack was in response toattacks against its Asaluyeh petrochemical plants, which are connected to its massive South Pars gas field and were reportedly hit by multiple explosions overnight.

By Canan Sevgili

April 7 (Reuters) - An attacker was killed in a gun battle with police outside the building housing the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, according to authorities and Reuters witnesses.

Below is a list of major militant attacks in Turkey in recent years:

December 29, 2025 - Three Turkish police officers and six Islamic State militants were killed in a gunfight in northwest Turkey in Yalova.

PARIS, April 7 (Reuters) - French nationals Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris are "free and on their way to France, after three and a half years of detention in Iran," President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday in a post on social media platform X.

Lawmakers greeted the announcement with a standing ovation at the National Assembly.

(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon and Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Charlotte Van Campenhout)

France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday told an appeal trial there was "not a single cent of Libyan money" in the campaign that saw him elected in 2007.

The 71-year-old, who has always denied any wrongdoing, last year became modern France's first former president to have gone to jail over the case.

"The truth is that there wasn't a single cent of Libyan money in my campaign," Sarkozy said.

By Alexander Cornwell

MANARA, Israel, April 7 (Reuters) - Orna Weinberg was forced to leave her home in northern Israel after it was struck by a Hezbollah rocket in October 2023, and spent the next two years displaced from her tight-knit community that is located just a few metres from the border with Lebanon.

Weinberg, 59, describes those years as "pretty tough" and marked by loss that went beyond the damage to her home. Many elderly residents died during the two years they were displaced, including her mother-in-law and her uncle.

April 7 (Reuters) - Efforts to facilitate talks between the U.S. and Iran are still ongoing, two Pakistani sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters on Tuesday, as U.S. strikes on Iran intensified and President Donald Trump's deadline to unleash "hell" neared. One of the sources, a senior security official, said Iran's overnight strike on Saudi Arabia's industrial facilities linked to U.S. firms threatened to derail the talks.

BUDAPEST/WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - U.S. strikes on Iran's Kharg Island do not represent a change in American strategy, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday as a U.S. official separately told Reuters the additional strikes on military targets did not impact oil infrastructure.

The official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, described at least some of the strikes as targeting sites that had been previously struck before and said the attack occurred in the early morning hours of Tuesday.

KABUL, April 7 (Reuters) - Afghanistan said on Tuesday that useful discussions have taken place in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi to resolve its conflict with Pakistan.

China, which shares its western border with ​both countries, has been mediating to help end the worst conflict between the allies-turned-foes since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

(Reporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar, writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by YP Rajesh)

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump once again exhorted Iran to make a deal by his Tuesday deadline, saying a "whole civilization will die tonight" if an agreement is not reached to end the conflict.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

"We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World."

(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

US President Donald Trump was looking at a request on Tuesday from mediator Pakistan to extend his Iran attacks deadline by two weeks -- hours after warning that "a whole civilization will die" if Tehran fails to make a deal.

Trump's latest wildly provocative threat against Iran prompted severe criticism, with former allies calling for his removal from office.

But as the clock ticked towards Trump's 8:00 PM (midnight GMT) deadline, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appeared to offer an off-ramp.