U.S. President Donald Trump threatened further attacks on Iran on Saturday (7 March), while the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia continued to shoot down missiles in their airspace. Meanwhile, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran would stop attacking its neighbours.
In a post on social media on Saturday (7 March), the U.S. President said Iran would be “hit very hard” today, adding that he was contemplating widening “the areas and groups of people” targeted.
Later at a press conference in Miami, Florida, President Trump said the U.S. had destroyed 42 Iranian navy ships in three days.
According to the Azerbaijani State Security Service, the terror plots targeted the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, the Israeli Embassy in Azerbaijan, a leader of the Mountain Jews religious community and the “Ashkenazi” synagogue.
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia continued to shoot down missiles and drones in their airspace on Saturday. Riyadh said it shot down ballistic missiles heading towards an air base and drones going in the direction of a major oil field.
On the same day, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the country had suspended strikes on neighbouring countries, except where attacks on Iran came from those nations.
Diplomats from Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran and consulate in the northwestern city of Tabriz safely crossed into Azerbaijan through the Astara border crossing in the early hours between Friday (6 March) and Saturday (7 March).
Overnight Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon killed 16 people, while Hezbollah ordered the around 20,000 residents of Kiryat Shmona in Israel near the border with Lebanon to evacuate immediately.
Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry said a UN peacekeeping soldier from Ghana was seriously injured in shelling on Friday night.
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Russia is willing in principle to resume peace talks with Ukraine and the United States in November, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said after President Vladimir Putin met U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.
Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight killed at least two people and injured 15 others, including two children, Ukrainian authorities said. Meanwhile, Russia said it had intercepted the vast majority of 630 Ukrainian drones launched towards Moscow.
Saudi Aramco has ordered staff to evacuate its headquarters amid escalating Houthi attacks on the kingdom. Two people were killed in an attack on Dammam airport, while Iran's IRGC Navy claimed strikes on seven vessels and warned the U.S. of a wider response.
Yemen's Houthis have denied targeting the holy city of Medina on Wednesday adding that they have not conducted any military operations towards Saudi Arabia either, denying earlier comments from the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
Georgia’s Constitutional Court in Batumi will on Wednesday hear a lawsuit seeking to ban five Georgian opposition parties, four of which collectively gained 784,820 votes (37.79 per cent) in the country’s last national elections in 2024.
Azerbaijani families of people missing since the Garabagh conflict have taken their appeal to EU officials in Brussels, calling for greater international support in clarifying the fate of their relatives and locating mass graves.
A peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia could be signed in 2027 or 2028, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday, state news agency Armenpress reported.
Kazakhstan is preparing sweeping military reforms after 14 service members died during exercises in the Caspian Sea. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev approved the plans on 21 October, with major changes to training, oversight and defence capabilities set to begin in 2027.
Saudi Aramco has ordered staff to evacuate its headquarters amid escalating Houthi attacks on the kingdom. Two people were killed in an attack on Dammam airport, while Iran's IRGC Navy claimed strikes on seven vessels and warned the U.S. of a wider response.
Iranian officials have stepped up warnings of retaliation amid the threat of renewed U.S.-Israeli strikes, while signalling that a diplomatic solution remains possible if Washington demonstrates a sincere commitment to rebuilding trust.
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