Middle East

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatens to launch ‘decisive reciprocal response’ to any attack, a day after the US struck targets in southern Iran.

The move came amid escalating cross-border hostilities despite the ceasefire declared weeks ago.

Strikes on Iran's southern Hormozgan province represent a ‘gross violation’ of a ‌tenuous ceasefire in place for nearly seven weeks, Tehran says.

The group was escorted through a back door at the international airport where footage shows a scuffle breaking out.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Fresh alarm has been raised over Gaza, with a senior peace envoy warning the deteriorating situation could fuel renewed violence.

US Central Command has confirmed that the US has launched fresh strikes on Iran, moments after Donald Trump issued a nuclear demand.

‘This little girl, a little bird from the birds of paradise, was playing at the door of her home,’ said the child’s grandmother of her death.

The United States and Iran have developed a memorandum of understanding ‘framework’ that extends the ceasefire 60 days.

US President Donald Trump is hosing down expectations of an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war with Iran.

A possible peace deal between Iran and the United States is sending shockwaves, with Donald Trump pledging the Strait of Hormuz will reopen.

Donald Trump says a potential breakthrough in the Middle East peace talks could be imminent, with the President revealing an agreement involving Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is being ‘negotiated’.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: There is no shortage of targets, should Trump, in coordination with Israel, decide to resume the assault on Iran that paused on April 8.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Iran is trying to formalise — and monetize — its control over the Strait of Hormuz, previously a transit point for one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas, by charging a fee for passage.