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News highlights: PM Modi participates in business meeting in Cyprus to boost bilateral relations

Israel-Iran conflict: Israel and Iran traded fresh strikes over the weekend, fuelling fears of a wider regional conflict, catch all the LIVE updates here

News highlights: PM Modi participates in business meeting in Cyprus to boost bilateral relations

Israel-Iran conflict: Israel and Iran traded fresh strikes over the weekend, fuelling fears of a wider regional conflict, catch all the LIVE updates here

Will halt responses if Israel stops its attacks: Iran's foreign minister

Iran's top diplomat said Sunday that if Israeli attacks on his country stop, our responses will also stop. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made the comment before diplomats in Tehran, his first public appearance since the Israeli strikes began on Friday. If the aggression stops, our responses will also stop, Araghchi said. There was no immediate reaction from Israel, which had been continuing strikes Sunday across Iran. Araghchi's appearance came on a day he was initially scheduled to be negotiating with the United States in Oman over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program. But the negotiations fell apart amid the Israeli attacks.

Even as Israel blitzes Tehran, it fears Iran's destructive missiles

Even as Israel has pummeled Iran with its own sophisticated missiles, setting oil facilities in Tehran ablaze, it still fears Iran's capacity for fierce retaliation

Israeli military targets Iran's defence ministry in fresh wave of strikes

Israel launched an expanded assault on Iran on Sunday, with direct strikes targeting its energy industry and Defence Ministry headquarters, while Tehran unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles blamed for the deaths of four people. The simultaneous strikes represented the latest salvo since a surprise attack by Israel two days earlier aimed at decimating Tehran's rapidly-advancing nuclear programme. New explosions boomed across Tehran as Iranian missiles entered Israel's skies in an attack that Israeli emergency officials said killed four people in a Galilee apartment building. Casualty figures were not immediately available in Iran, where Israel targeted its Defence Ministry headquarters in Tehran as well as sites that it alleged were associated with the country's nuclear programme. Amid the continued conflict, planned negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran's nuclear programme were cancelled, throwing into question when -- and how -- an end to the fighting could .

Tense calm in Tel Aviv as Israelis brace for more Iranian missile strikes

A palpable tension settled over an eerily quiet Tel Aviv on Saturday as residents anticipated another round of missiles to be fired from Iran, which is under intense attack from the Israeli military. Iran's retaliatory strikes late Friday a barrage of drones and missiles mostly shot down by Israel's defences killed at least three people in the greater Tel Aviv area, and wounded dozens. Most stores and restaurants were closed the next day across the Mediterranean city, though some ice cream shops remained open. A smattering of people gathered with friends in parks, while staying close to public bomb shelters. Tel Aviv's beaches, normally packed, had fewer sunbathers. Uneasy Israelis huddled over their phones for updates about the escalating conflict with Iran, while still trying to go about their lives and enjoy a bit of sunshine. It just feels very unknown, said Lindsay Schragen, an architect in Tel Aviv. After more than 20 months of war between Israel and Hamas, Israelis are us

Israel-Iran Highlights: Israeli planes to be soon over Iran, says Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel-Iran Highlights: Netanyahu warned what Iran has experienced so far would be nothing in front of what they are going to face in the coming days

US-Iran nuclear talks in Oman cancelled after Israel's strikes on Tehran

Oman's foreign minister says planned talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme will not now take place after Israel's strikes targeting the Islamic Republic. Badr al-Busaidi made the announcement on social media Saturday. It comes after Iran's foreign minister said any talks would be unjustifiable amid the ongoing attacks. Oman has been mediating the talks. The Iran US talks scheduled to be held in Muscat this Sunday will not now take place, al-Busaidi wrote. But diplomacy and dialogue remain the only pathway to lasting peace. A sixth round was due to happen in Muscat, Oman's capital, before the Israeli strikes began Friday.

IDF says Tehran no longer immune as Israeli jets strike deep in Iran

Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Brig Gen Effie Defrin on Saturday claimed that the Israeli Air Force has achieved aerial freedom of action over Tehran, which is no longer immune. Defrin said that over 70 Israeli Air Force fighter jets participated in the overnight operation in Tehran to achieve aerial freedom of action over the Iranian capital. Israel attacked Iran's capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country's nuclear programme and attacked its nuclear, missile and military complex. In retaliation, Iran launched retaliatory strikes on Israel with the conflict escalating further on Saturday. Some 40 sites were targeted, including air defence systems and related assets, Defrin said. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesperson stressed that Israel Air Force jets and drones flew over Tehran for some two and a half hours during the operation and that dozens of aircraft continue to fly freely thanks to the opening blow that removed the threat of Iranian air defence ..

Israel's PM Netanyahu urges Iranians to rise against 'oppressive regime'

He emphasised that Israel has eliminated top military commanders, senior nuclear scientists and hit a large portion of Iran's ballistic missile arsenal

Nuclear talks with US now 'meaningless', says Iran after Israeli airstrikes

After Israel carried out a preemptive strike on Iran, Tehran launched missile strikes on Israeli targets and called nuclear talks with the US 'meaningless', accusing Washington of complicity

Israel's strike on Iran caused radioactive, chemical leak: IAEA tells UNSC

IAEA DG Rafael Grossi said Israel destroyed Natanz's above-ground section; no damage to underground enrichment units, but power loss may hit centrifuges; site shows radioactive, chemical contamination

Iran strikes Israel with missiles after deadly raids by IDF | Top updates

Iran launched missile strikes after Israeli raids killed dozens in Tehran; explosions reported in Tel Aviv, Golan Heights, several injured

Iran launches hundreds of ballistic missiles on Israel as conflict widens

Multiple waves of missiles targeting Israeli cities amount to the most forceful step yet by Tehran since Israel's overnight raids killed top Iranian generals and damaged military infra

US military helping intercept missiles fired by Iran at Israel: Official

The US military is helping intercept missiles that Iran fired in retaliation at Israel, a US official says. The US has been moving assets nearer to Israel to assist in missile intercepts and to provide better protection of US bases in the region. While the official did not say how the US provided assistance, both US Air Force fighter aircraft and destroyer-based missile defences have intercepted missiles in previous attacks. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing operations. Israel launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran's nuclear and military structure on Friday, deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the country to attack key facilities and kill top generals and scientists -- a barrage it said was necessary before its adversary got any closer to building an atomic weapon. Iran retaliated by unleashing scores of ballistic missiles on Israel late on Friday, with explosions flaring in the skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shaki

Israel strikes Iran for second night; Iran says 'gates of hell' will open

Israel said that Iran had launched around 100 drones towards Israeli territory on Friday, but Iran denied this and there were no reports of drones reaching Israeli targets

US gave regional allies heads up on Israel's planned attack on Iran: Report

In a diplomatic note sent out Thursday afternoon, the State Department confirmed that the Israeli attack was set to take place late on Thursday. Qatar was among the countries which received heads up

No sign of breach detected at Iran's key nuclear enrichment site in Natanz

Last year, the agency conducted more than 400 inspections in Iran, keeping track of the Islamic Republic's uranium stockpile to gram levels

Israeli strikes on Iran new test of Trump's 'America first' agenda

Just hours before Israel launched strikes on Iran early Friday, President Donald Trump was still holding onto tattered threads of hope that a long-simmering dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme could be resolved without military action. But with the Israeli military operation called Rising Lion now underway something Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says will go on for as many days as it takes Trump will be tested anew on his ability to make good on a campaign promise to disentangle the US from foreign conflicts. The administration's immediate reaction to the Israeli assault came not from Trump, but from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is doubling as Trump's national security adviser. He made clear that the US was not involved and that the administration's central concern was protecting US forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defence, Rubio said in a statement. "President Trump and the Administration have

Decoded: How Iran and Israel's decades-old conflict exploded into war

Iran's nuclear programme has long been at the centre of Israeli fears, with Tehran's enrichment advances seen by Israel as an existential threat