ISLAMABAD: The United States held off from further strikes on Iran for a second consecutive night on Sunday, as President Donald Trump weighed diplomatic and military options in a conflict now closing in on its fifth month.
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US halts Iran strikes after 13 nights as conflict threatens to spread to Red Sea
ISLAMABAD: Fears that the war between the United States and Iran could widen into a broader regional conflagration intensified this weekend, after Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck Saudi Arabian oil facilities on the Red Sea coast and Tehran accused Ukraine of attacking one of its vessels in the Caspian Sea.
Twelve soldiers among 15 dead as Taliban militants ram explosives-laden vehicle into Tank checkpost near Afghan border
PESHAWAR: Fifteen people, among them 12 soldiers, two police officers and a forestry official, were killed after militants stormed a joint security checkpost in northwestern Pakistan overnight, in an assault that has again exposed the scale of the militant threat facing the country’s western border regions.
Pakistan condemns Houthi tanker attacks and pledges solidarity with Saudi Arabia as Red Sea crisis deepens
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, pledging his country’s full solidarity with Riyadh in a telephone call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as fears grow that the widening Middle East conflict is drawing in one of the world’s busiest shipping corridors.
Pakistan draws maritime red line, warns of force against Houthi blockade
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan warned on Wednesday that it stood ready to use force to defend its ships and maritime interests, as Yemen’s Houthi movement pressed ahead with threats of a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia that has already prompted tankers to change course in the Red Sea.
Pakistan urges restraint as Iran’s interior minister visits amid collapsing US ceasefire
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on all parties to exercise restraint in the escalating conflict between Iran and the United States on Tuesday, as Pakistan sought to shore up a ceasefire agreement it brokered that has come under renewed strain from fighting in the Gulf.
US and Iran trade strikes far beyond Hormuz as Tehran declares ‘full-scale war’
ISLAMABAD: Iran’s president declared on Monday that his country is now locked in “a full-scale war” with the United States, a stark public acknowledgment that came as American warplanes struck deeper into Iranian territory than at any point in months and Tehran’s own missiles reached as far as Syria, Jordan, and Kuwait.
Ninth night of US airstrikes on Iran follows death of another American service member
ISLAMABAD: The United States bombed Iran for a ninth consecutive night early on Monday, extending a war that began in February and has now claimed the lives of at least 17 American service members, as Iran answered with retaliatory strikes on Bahrain, Kuwait, and a U.S.-linked target in Syria.
US and Iran trade strikes for eighth straight day
ISLAMABAD: The United States and Iran traded strikes for an eighth straight day on Sunday, plunging the Middle East deeper into open warfare after an Iranian missile and drone attack on a US air base in Jordan left two American service members dead and a third missing.
US reports first combat deaths; Iran says ceasefire over as war enters seventh night
ISLAMABAD: For the seventh straight night, American warplanes and warships struck targets across Iran on Saturday, and Iran struck back at US allies across the Persian Gulf, as the region’s fragile ceasefire dissolved further into what officials on both sides now describe as a return to open war.